Don't neglect hte PSU either.
SO many systems worry so much about specs, yet only care that there's sufficient peak wattage in the PSU. I had one system brought to me a few months back that kept crashing, despite several reinstalls. I opened it up, took out the PSU, pointed at the part that said "WARRANT VOID IF REMOVED" and just walked away.
yes. they misspelled 'warranty'.
And yes, replacing it fixed the problem.
Not to mention that 2004 is a long time ago in computer terms.
On 5/8/06,
Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion. Not sure if I need to go that far just yet. I'll wait for my CHKDSK to finish.
See, this computer is only about two years old, it was custom built at a shop, and is very high-end as far as computers from late 2004 go. So there's no reason to suspect bad memory -- or is there?On 5/8/06, Dave Watkins - CLUG < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi Mitchell,
Try swapping out the memory with known good stuff. XP seems to have an
innate ability to sniff out flakey memory. You might try another power
supply also. Just put 2 boxes side by side and use the other's power supply.
Saves having to pull the supply out.
HTH
Cheers,
Dave Watkins
President
Calgary Linux Users Group
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Subject: [clug-talk] Random computer crashing
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help --
Today I had to reinstall "that other operating system" on my dads computer.
Now, whenever the XP Setup got about half way through "Copying files to your
hard disk" the computers PC-Speaker made a disgusting croak noise and died
solemly. Like, the entire machine just went a cold shutdown like someone hit
the powerbar. Now, I tried my legit copy of XP, my pirated copy, everything.
Nothing worked. Finally, I decided to boot onto my PCLinuxOS livecd and wipe
out the partitions that way instead of using WinXP-Setups' built-in watered
down partitioner. Everything worked, the install worked, no more dying,
nothing. Just worked. I figured that the Windows partitioner was having
trouble creating the filesystem properly, right?
Well, now, here I am at the machine, and all of a sudden, it croaks, and
dies again! Right in the middle of a huge video-rip. Sounds intense, but for
this machine, its not really. Now, right away I think, "Oh, I'm overloading
it" - well, not the case, because the WinXP-Setup would always die in the
exact same place. So that's kind of a coincidence.
So does anyone know what this is? The sound the PC Speaker makes is kind of
a loud-low note, then fades out and the machine dies.
Thanks!
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