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Jed
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 Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject: Diagnosis issue |
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Jed
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Diagnosis issue |
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Steven Heller <steven.heller@verizon.net> wrote in
news:3F25BA63.EE397BF@verizon.net:
| Quote: | Hi I had a similar issue with a pc at work. When it does not boot
does it not start the bios? Also there might be an environmental
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"Sujay L. Nazareth" wrote:
Hello Everyone...
Need your help. Have a System. AMD Duron 850. Epox Motherboard. 256
MB RAM, Onboard A/V. The system has 2 HDD. One WD 10GB and the second
is a Quantum 12GB. The system has the following problem.
Every few days the whole system will suddenly freeze. The HDD light
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unplug a hard drive and reconnect it.
I did a diagnostic on both HDD and they are OK. I thought it was a
heat issue so have more cooling in there (Anyone know what temps are
normal for a Duron 850?)
As far as I can see, I think it's a M/B, CPU or PSU problem... But
not sure which one. What would you all say? Problem is the problem
itself is intermittent and it may work fine for me now, but will
crash on the client in a few days.... Suggestions??
Sujay
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Check the cable. If your drives are non-IDE, use a standard 40-wire IDE
cable to connect them to the motherboard instead of the new 80-wire UDMA
cables. If that doesn't fix it I would think that the problem (from your
description of the solution) is a drive. My guess would be the Quantum.
Mostly just because I hate Quantum. But it could be the WD. They had a
Quality Control issue with those drives a few years back. I know because
I tested several. If you can get a good diagnostic program to burn in
the system you may be able to determine which drive is bad. It could
just be some weird incompatibility between the EPOX and the old drives.
A burn in program will get the system warm. If it does get hot it should
shut down or freeze.
Your problem is really an IWF (Intermittent Weird Failure).
Regards,
Jed |
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