Problem with IC13

[Clutch]

I noticed last night when I was going to bed that the power led was flashing on IC13. I turned the monitor on, and it was froze, mouse, keyboard nothing worked. So I rebooted, everything started up just fine. I wake up this morning to the same flashing led. I turn it on and the computer was on for 12 minutes according to my LAN connection before it was froze again. I rebooted and got a svchost error of some sort.

I am at work now, there was nothing I could do this morning because of work and all. As soon as I get home, I am going to look more into it, might try switching out some memory or try a fresh install of win2k.

I just wanted to let you guys know about the situation. I will get on it as soon as I get home and have it up tonight stable.

[muddocktor]

You might want to run a hard drive diagnostic program and see if the hard drive is trying to pack it in, Clutch. That hard drive is pretty old and might be trying to die.

[Clutch]

I will try that also mudd, thanks.

[mmonnin]

Another good reason to use EM3 to monitor rigs that arent used every day.

Let us know what you find out.

[Clutch]

I monitor it everyday, it has it's own monitor hooked up to it and all. I just don't leave the monitor on at night because of the power issue.

[Clutch]

UPDATE:

I got home and took the cover off to make sure the heatsink fan was still working and everything was seated correctly. I booted up and it has been running for about an hour or so stable. I'm leaning to heat being an issue. I am going to let it run all night with the cover off then try with cover on tommorow. I just hope all stays stable while I'm at the lan this weekend.