Rick, Thanks for the reply and personal experience. The more I look at all the problems, the more I am inclined to suspect the southbridge. It is passively cooled with a small heatsink and is quite warm to the touch. I don't know if that is indicative of anything. All the problems I have encountered are can be traced back to problems with I/O.
It is unfortunate that socket 939 is essentially dead because I really can't replace this motherboard unless I can find something on e-bay, and they usually want an excessive amount for old technology. With rebates I can upgrade the CPU, motherboard and memory (from 2 gig DDR400 to 4 gig of DDR2 800) for about $425 after MIR. It may be worth the expense to just put these problems behind. Also, thanks for the link. Basic but useful information. Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Glazier > Sounds similiar to the problems I had on a couple MBs I swapped > out last fall... I think the SouthBridge chipset went. > Everything else > worked well after the replacement of the MBs. > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southbridge_%28computing%29> > My UBS stability (such as it is) was the first thing to go... > (Either that, or forced ditching of my UltraATA133 controller card...) > > Rick Glazier > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Maki" > > As True Image boots to the program in Linux, there is a a > flash on the > > screen saying the nVidia and Sil3114 controllers (the > controllers on the > > motherboard) have been found, followed by a message that no > volumes were > > found. > > > > I may be in denial, but the repeated weird problems seem to > be getting > > progressively worse in a way I would not attribute to the > psu. Removing the > > 750 GB WD drive that was showing slow transfer times and > putting it back > > into the external enclosure produced a new problem. As long > as the drive was > > attached to the nVidia controller, the computer would stick at the > > "searching for drives" section of the nVidia boot process. > As soon as I > > removed the drive, it booted fine. I moved the drive to one > of the pcie-X1 > > SATA ports and everything boots fine. More and more I am > suspicious of the > > on-board SATA controllers. I have never been able to mount > a boot drive on > > the Sil3114 ports and now the nVidia seem to be acting up.
