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At 11:55 AM 2/25/2002 -0500, Owen B. Mehegan wrote: >A few days ago, I woke up and found my computer frozen. I reset it, and the >system would not come back up. The drives would spin, but the system did not >beep and wouldn't POST. Eventually, I took out one CPU, and the box seemed >to boot fine. Awhile later, however, it crashed again, and would not reboot. >After a few more tries, I got it to load and run the memory test, and then >it failed again. Sometimes the system does not even POST. Other times it >stops running/freezes after the memory test, during the OS loading process, >or in the BIOS settings menus - NEVER seen that happen before. > >So far, I have pulled one CPU, re-seated the video card, cleared the CMOS, >and swapped/removed RAM from the system, all without success. Up until now, >the system has run fine, and I've made no recent changes to the hardware. >The problem sounds like it could be heat, but even this morning, after the >system had been off overnight, it would not even POST. Pertinent specs: > >Any suggestions as to what could be causing this problem would be much >appreciated. Thanks! > >/owen > umm- just a thought - Have you tried booting with just the "other" cpu in case its the currently resident cpu which is flaky ? Also - how old is your power supply ? -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. Email may contain words incorrectly generated by Speech Recognition software. "jkinz at ultranet.com" copyright 2001. Use restricted to non-UCE uses. Any other use is an acceptance of the offer at www.ultranet.com/~jkinz/policy.html.
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