Quick Recap of FRIDAY 1) Burning a DVD when system shutdown and re-booted (after a warning signal of some type seemed to sound) 2) Could not boot to anything but floppy 3) Removed battery and power overnight
NOW 4) Able to boot to cdrom 5) Transferred all files via Acronis TrueImage 6) System will boot to windows desktop with original SATA RAID hard drives, I hear a static pop sound through the speakers and the system freezes 7) Restored system files to a new, clean PATA hard drive -- same pop and freeze on boot 8) Did a fresh install of WinXP on an old 20 gig hard drive and everything appears to be functioning. Will boot to desktop without freezing. Observations: A) The system starts to boot, gets to the desktop, and then freezes if I use the original SATA RAID disks OR the new, restored files on a PATA hard drive. B) A fresh install of WinXP seems to work on an old PATA hard drive. Questions: A) Any ideas of the cause of this problem? B) Recommendations -- Try a restore to the SATA RAID hard drives? Do a new install on the SATA RAID hard drives? Do a new install on a PATA hard drive? C) Finally, do I trust this motherboard in the long run if any of the above installation attempts are successful? Should I just bite the bullet and build a new AMD64 system to replace this aging, long in the tooth AMD Athlon XP 3200+ system? But seriously, is this system worth trusting if I can resurrect it after this type of problem? Your insight, thoughts and suggestions would go a long way in helping me make the best decision. Thanks, Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
