Flaky system

LincLinc OwnerDetroit Icrontian
edited September 2003 in Hardware
Problem: Random reboots and freezes.

System: Manufactured by Matrox about 1998 or 99. I don't have the specs so I can only eyeball it. It has dual 733Mhz processors made by Pentium, and an Asus mobo.

There's a scsi card for an external hard drive array that I'm not currently using.

392 MB of RAM, I don't know what type.

The power supply is a brand new Antec 430W and the hard drive has been freshly reformatted and a new install of Win2K is on it, so I don't believe it to be a software or PSU problem.

I just removed the USB PCI card after the last time it went down because I figured I'd just start ripping pieces out one at a time until it stopped and call that piece the culprit :rolleyes: Anyone have a better suggestion?

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Memory.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    What he said. Now Keebs, I'm not one to lecture, but being as you are part of the management of this site, don't you think you should use this thread first? :)
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Thrax said
    Memory.
    That's probably my guess as well, because of the pattern of reboots/freezes. It's been happening mostly just as I finish installing something or am in the middle of copying files. On the other hand, it didn't reboot for 24 hours when I just left it here folding and didn't touch it.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    <-- Total banks of RAM

    <-- Theoretical "bad" bank

    <-- part used by folding - no crash

    <--part that fuxxors when you do stuff.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    primesuspect said
    What he said. Now Keebs, I'm not one to lecture, but being as you are part of the management of this site, don't you think you should use this thread first? :)

    In all honesty, I don't have time to read nearly as much in the forums as I'd like. I basically try to keep up on Feedback, Folding, Case/Mod, and Staff. It wasn't a "non-starting" system so I didn't even venture into that forum. My bad.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Yeah, but don't you think my diagram just pwns?
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    General Keebler said
    It has dual 733Mhz processors made by Pentium

    :rolleyes2

    NS
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    I have a 2.32GHz processor made by Athlon!
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    ;D;D

    OMG this thread has me rolling on the floor crapping my pants with the hilarity of it all!
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited September 2003
    MM steps in to point out the search button to Keebs. :p

    Flaky systems. EG random reboots/corrupted data are most likely one of the following three.

    a) bad ide/scsi cable.
    b) bad memory
    c) bad memory combination..eg nothing wrong with the memory each on its own but they play poorly together.

    Detective solutions.

    www.simmtester.com for DocMemory or run MEMTEST and check out each stick by itself then togehter.

    If those check out b and c are most likely not the culprit. Look next to the cables. Of course a good cleaning and reseating of all components is a good thing. Once data has been corrupted then it will continue to give you problems so clean install is in order.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    Thanks for the link...

    I think I've sustained enough abuse for one night :rolleyes:

    /me grumbles about posting questions on bitbender from now on
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2003
    Random reboots can come from PSUs as well. You said its new, did the problem occur and the newly installed PSU?
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2003
    mmonnin said
    Random reboots can come from PSUs as well. You said its new, did the problem occur and the newly installed PSU?

    Yeah, it happened before and after putting in the new Antec. I'm going to run the mem test tomorrow if I make it into work.
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