Had something similar happen to me, except the computer wouldn't power
on at all. Swapped every part, power supplies, power/reset switches and
cables, etc. Then I used a different hunk of metal (a.k.a. case) and it
seemed to work just fine.
Eric Jensen
Stephen Smith wrote:
Flash back!
About a year ago we had two computer do the same thing. Both began to
randomly reboot. Both were running Windows on the desktop at the
time. Our first impression was bad memory so we swapped it with known
good memory...no good. Ponder. We then replaced the CPUs with known
good CPUs...no good. Ponder, Ponder. Hard drive, its gotta be the
hard drive. I've seen SCSI's do this though not IDE's or ATA's.
Install, install...load Windows (reboot, reboot, reboot...you know the
drill)...Nada! Mother board, must be the mother board!
Replace,replace...still doing it. Hmm, hmm. Maybe its a bad NIC or
other peripheral board. Pulled, them...didn't help. Power supply,
its got to be the power supply. Mumble, grumble (ouch!)...what the
heck, it still reboots!!! Hey, the only thing left is the case! Maybe
the reset switch has gone crazy! Swap, swap...no good!
Pulled the hard drives put .em on the shelf. Pulled the memory, put
it on the shelf. Carried the carcass to the dumpster....Hey that
worked!!!
It seems strange, that we could never get either of these two machines
to stabilize. We've since reused the memory, the hard drives and the
NICs, etc. in new configurations without problems. The only thing
that we could figure was some CPU-Mother board interaction was causing
the issue. BTW, both machines were build from components from a local
supplier. Both were purchased at the same time. It was probably a
bad lot!
Good luck!
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