Hi Richard, Thanks to Herman, Dingo and you for the tips. I guess I'll get to work.
Most likely a drive I think. I replaced the power supply about 4 months ago -- with a high quality one, supposedly. CPU fan is working for sure, board seems to be running 2-4 degrees C hot, but CPU temp is holding at normal for ambient. I went in there and blew everything out thoroughly with HFC152a, but that does not seem to get temps back to normal. Generally, I'm a good housekeeper. (^_-) This board (Asus P4PE) seems to always have had some problems with four devices (two primary and two secondary). I have given up (and I know how to jumper and setup for sure) running three IDE drives (plus a DVD), because I always got disk errors. They disappeared when I finally gave up and stopped trying to use a drive on the secondary master (secondary slave works just fine, don't ask me why, but it seems the board does not like two secondary devices). Primary master is the system drive, primary slave is the DVD. I also tried moving the DVD to both secondary positions (using three drives as well), but the board/system was not happy with any of those combinations either. So I'm running primary master drive, primary slave DVD, secondary master vacant, secondary slave drive. Been working fine like that for a long time ... until today. Primary master is 5 years old however, Seagate, maybe time to collect its pension. I have a SCSI subsystem as well with two drives. I did get a 1GB dump from the evening reboot, but I find them basically unfathomable. ^_^ Thanks again, Yuki Saturday, May 24, 2008, 11:03:03 AM, you wrote: RD> Backup/clone to TWO separate hard drive as soon as possible, then remove RD> each cloned hard drive from your system before you do anything else. Don't RD> use the third hard drive in your system at all - this is your "last resort" RD> hard drive in case you have a terminal problem in your PC such as a bad RD> power supply. RD> Test one of your backup hard drives and see if it actually works as planned RD> theres nothing worse than an inoperative backup. RD> Theres a reasonable chance that its either your hard drive or your power RD> supply if your computer has otherwise been stable. Hard drives are very RD> cheap now (1000GB for just over $200). RD> Maybe a cleanout of dust in your PSU/fans might be a good start. RD> Best regards, RD> Richard Dale. RD> Norgate Investor Services RD> - Premium quality Stock, Futures and Foreign Exchange Data for RD> markets in Australia, Asia, Canada, Europe, UK & USA - RD> www.premiumdata.net RD> From: [email protected] RD> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf RD> Of Yuki Taga RD> Sent: Saturday, 24 May 2008 9:39 AM RD> To: [email protected] RD> Subject: [amibroker] OT: computer meltdown? RD> I built this box five years ago, so I suppose problems would only be RD> natural at some point. RD> 1) Spontaneous reboot last night -- out of the blue. Log says disk RD> error. RD> 2) Board seems to be running hotter, but within range. CPU temp RD> normal. RD> 3) Box seemed to run normally this morning (after the spontaneous RD> reboot), but again rebooted itself about 10 am. RD> 4) No errors in log this time. RD> 5) On the reboot, system could not autodetect primary channel at RD> first. I shut down and then after a few minutes it detected and RD> reboot was okay. RD> But obviously, something is not okay. Fans seem to be working. I'm RD> writing this on the box, so the box is not totally toast just yet. RD> Suggestions for troubleshooting? (Redundantly backed up, so no RD> problems if worst comes to worst -- just annoyances.) RD> Yuki
