FORc5,
Yes, Master! First thing checked; not a single suspect cap anywhere!
Have not taken the removed psu apart yet though!!!!!! That is next. This old
psu is dated 1997 from my Bro's Micron Pentium Pro............?
The old Fortron/Source is tooling away but ~0.1v low on the 12v buss. Reads
+11.98v.
Did find that the CMOS batt was low, 2.901v. Changed it. No improvement.
Think Greg gets the biscuit again! This old BX6 just can not play nice with
a 160G drive!
My bad............
Thanks,
Duncan
At 18:19 10/18/2008 -0700, you wrote:
ASSUME u checked for bad caps ?
Have a customer who wants me to do 4 clean installs, with musical hard
drives and does not understand why I insist they come here, ONE at a time.
These are older systems also, think socket A on a7n8x's way too much for
onsite service IF problems arise >:-o and who knows what I will need.
fp
At 03:47 PM 10/18/2008, DHSinclair Poked the stick with:
>Oh, this afternoon has been much fun with my dinosaur!
>Powered on and got no video. Powered off and changed the psu.
>Powered on and got no video. Hmm, the old G200-agp is toast. #%&**@
>Got my one last vid card (fx5500-pci) and retested..........No video, Hmm.
>Decided bios was really dorked up. Possible........reset.
>Powered on, no video.
>Changed the P2-450 (100fsb) for a P2-333 (66fsb)
>Powered on.....finally, a post beep code; 1L-1S-1S-1S.....
>(video trouble still.)
>Powered off. Pulled the fx5500, put the G200 back in the agp slot.
>Pulled the P2-333 and put the P2-450 back in.
>Powered on and the wretch fired right up and into bios!
>I've seen this behavior several times with this BX6r2. Odd beast1
>Currently sitting at a post complete looking at the "NTLDR missing" missing
>and looking for a CD to spin up! Bios set for ACPI and PnP OS.
>This time I'm going to try w2kpro!
>Thanks,
>Duncan
>
>At 13:52 10/18/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>Gee, sounds like a whole lot of fun.
>>
>>Going back to my original confusion, I had something similar happen
recently
>>with AHCI. When it's turned on, neither of my SATA DVD drives are checked
>>for bootable devices as part of the BIOS sequence, even though they are
>>marked as such in the BIOS.
>>
>>But when I turn off AHCI and set it to IDE or SATA, the BIOS checks
both for
>>bootable discs every time it boots.
>>
>>------
>>Brian
>>
>>
>>
>>On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:44 PM, DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> JRS, Greg, Brian,
>>> Thanks, and this is why I asked, I am trying to install Wxp and
notice that
>>> one of the very first parts/files installed seem to focus on ACPI. I have
>>> tried the install with ACPI enabled in bios and with ACPI disabled in
>>> bios............ :(
>>> ACPI enabled in bios - The install runs for ~22minutes and the PC shuts
>>> OFF.
>>> ACPI disabled in bios - The install completes, but Wxp eventually
boots to
>>> a BSOD, and, many files from the CD and called out as missing or corrupt.
>>> Some are correctable w/Retry <ent>, but many have to be bypassed with the
>>> ESC key.
>>>
>>> None of the past 4 install attempts have completed properly - a
running OS.
>>> The machine used to be my EasyNAS/NASLite test platform (for the past
6mo).
>>> Prior to this, it ran W2Kpro solidly.
>>>
>>> I have changed the CDROM twice w/known working devices. I changed the
PATA
>>> cables twice. No change. I am going the swap out the psu (enermax
451w; my
>>> last!) this afternoon even though the bios power/temp display screen
shows
>>> everything is nominal...............A real head scratcher, but fun
anyway.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Duncan
>>>
>>>
>>> At 10:12 10/18/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Installing with ACPI on or off can cause issues as well if you switch
>>>> it afterwards since you will get a different kernel installed
>>>> when you install XP with it either off or on.
>>>>
>>>> The only way to change kernels is to do a re-install from what I
>>>> understand.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Greg Sevart wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) primarily deals
>>>>> with power
>>>>> states. I think you are mistaking it for AHCI (Advanced Host
>>>>> Controller
>>>>> Interface), which does deal specifically with advanced features for
>>>>> SATA
>>>>> drives. Enabling AHCI after an installation has already been
>>>>> completed does
>>>>> cause a boot BSOD under Windows. There are ways to perform a switch
>>>>> without
>>>>> a reinstallation though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greg
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
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