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24th Apr 2007, 09:02
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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 |
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24th Apr 2007, 09:07
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Could be a number of things.
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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. My System: Hybr!d
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24th Apr 2007, 09:14
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Thanks - thats a cheap Idea - yes I have 2 256 sticks
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24th Apr 2007, 20:04
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Mine does that occasionally, but it's usually caused by a Windows download of some sort. Could that be the problem/issue?
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25th Apr 2007, 01:04
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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
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25th Apr 2007, 03:02
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Yup, i do it every year at least. |
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10th May 2007, 04:42
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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 |
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10th May 2007, 04:43
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OK, let me know how you get on.
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#9
4th Sep 2009, 21:13
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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.
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5th Sep 2009, 07:25
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