[DEREK530D]

Can anyone help me ?

Running an AMD 2800 ATHLON on a GIGABYTE 7N400 PRO 2 BOARD

PATA HITACHI DRIVE 160 G + 2 Opticals and a Floppy

Very bog standard XP - up to date + Office 2003 + Norton 2006 + Adaware

No gaming - only surf and home office.

Every couple of weeks - it just re-starts - no message, nothing - and once it just shut down - leaving the power light on. Cycled the power on/off - worked OK.

Mains lead changed - all OK

CPU temp reports as 58 Deg - all fans running fine - no dust.

Occasionally get a "chirp" from the on board speaker - nothing happens.

Never over-clocked - would not know how.

Can anybody suggest a cause - CPU / MBOARD / PSU ??

Thanks

Derek

[Hybr!d]

Could be a number of things.

Easiest one to try is if you have two sticks of RAM in the PC.

Remove one and see if it does it again, if it does swap to the other and test again.

RAM is normally the hardware culprit when it comes to random faults.

If that fails I would do a windows repair.

[DEREK530D]

Thanks - thats a cheap Idea - yes I have 2 256 sticks

[mamab]

Mine does that occasionally, but it's usually caused by a Windows download of some sort. Could that be the problem/issue?

[DEREK530D]

I allways end up doing a strip-re-format and re-load every 2 years - you could well be right. They allways seem so fast and stable when you first build them - then it's all downhill
Thanks

[Hybr!d]

Originally Posted by DEREK530D

I allways end up doing a strip-re-format and re-load every 2 years - you could well be right. They allways seem so fast and stable when you first build them - then it's all downhill
Thanks

Yup, i do it every year at least.

[DEREK530D]

Dave - have swapped the memory - I remembered I had 2 other sticks in a "spare" comp - so far - so good - will report back

Thanks Derek

[Hybr!d]

OK, let me know how you get on.

[andrewanimation]

A "clicking" hard drive is a faulty hard drive, they restart on their own more often as time goes by. If that's the case, you should probably replace the hard drive, hopefully it's still under warranty but otherwise they're cheap anyway, just get the correct one, and, as for the stuff on the drive, you can copy it to the new drive if you have a Mirror Array setup (2x hard drives mirroring each other), or else you'll have to reinstall from scratch, and save the contents of the old drive onto an external back-up, or else you'll have to turn the faulty drive into an external yourself ($15 for the needed equipment off eBay) and connect it to the new hard drive as an external and copy anything you want as easily as with a normal external.

[KanoakaVirus]

Originally Posted by andrewanimation

A "clicking" hard drive is a faulty hard drive....

10th May 2007, 12:43