the same, the BIOS, chips, or firmware within the chips on the new motherboard
might different than the old one.
I would suggest
1) Check the control panel -> system->hardware ->device Manager
and see if there is anything listed with a yellow question mark on the list. Hit Delete if any
and reinstall the driver for that device by rebooting.
2) Change a different hdd to reinstall win2k OS might fix this problem;
3) Using the Windows 2000 boot cd and try to do the repair on the current hdd might help.
4) Disable NAV and leave it without network connection see if that will crash?
5) Take out all devices on the PCI and ISA bus then just leave the machine running
see if that will not crash?
6) If you suspect the memory, you might take some out and just leave a minimum there to
let the machine run, then add one more each time to see which one is bad.
I wish there is a toolbox to do all of these checking for wintel using LINUX ;-)
Liyun
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Apr 22, 2004 9:34 AM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [TriLUG] Machine crash
This may be off Linux but it is hardware related. I have a Dell dimension 8200 running Win2000. It had a motherboard failure two weeks ago and Dell replaced it. Now it crashes several time a night. I ran Norton Antivirus for about 30 minutes(and no virus reported on screen) then NAV crashed. Sometimes Explorer is not accessible. Machine crashes and reboots without any warning. I ran memtest86(memtest86.com) and it reports some memory failures. But when I called Dell support, they let me run Dell diagnose tools for memory test and it reports nothing wrong. Dell tech support promised to call me back but never. Whom should I trust? memtest86 or Dell? Any suggestions?
Dell Dimension 8200 (2 1/2 year-old) CPU: Intel P4 1.8 GHZ RAM: 512 MB Hard Drive: 80 GB
TIA,
-Daniel
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