Paul Rodriguez wrote:
A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the motherboard.
I have since have had a difficulty whenever I try to transfer large files on the hard drive. When I try, my computer restarts or freezes.
I have since replaced the mobo (Soyo Dragon Plus SY-KT600), my memory, and my hard drive.
Changing my hard drive and motherboard made no change. My computer would alternately freeze or reboot during the installation phase.
After installing new memory (from Crucial, specifically for my new mobo), my computer doesn't even boot properly, and never gets to the menus in the mandrake install cd.
You can try disabling all on-board devices first and see if it boots up properly when this is done. If not, remove extra hardware you inserted and try to reboot then. If you can't reboot in a bald situation, either your board or your CPU dealed with some serious arse-kicking.
Your board components aren't made to endure more than 5 volts and a certain power amount. If it exceeds you can for sure say other components are affected in someway. Specially with a power-surge:if it can't go through your surge-protecor it will choose another easy way which was your modem.
After such event it may not look like something happened to your other hardware, but your components are damaged and they deteriorate very quickly once damaged. The effects show later but are still the resemblance of what happened during the surge.
That it killed your Ethernet device doesn't mean that this device stopped the problem.
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