absolutely baffling mobo(?) problem
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absolutely baffling mobo(?) problem
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 5:48 amPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2003 5:12 pmPosted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:01 amwell heres the thing...if i boot into knoppix from a cd it will run just fine for days, no problems at all, so how could a fried CPU not effect that?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:19 amJust a thought.... How is your Bios setup to boot? Maybe running Linux from CD has it recognizing that drive first. Worth a check.
brad
brad
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 1:43 pmWhat you've described certainly sounds like a problem with the hard drives - since you've ruled out the actual hard drive, it has to be either the cable or the IDE interface 
That said, a bad HDD wouldn't normally give you beep codes - that is normally related to memory or graphics card. Have you tried reseating these components?
That said, a bad HDD wouldn't normally give you beep codes - that is normally related to memory or graphics card. Have you tried reseating these components?
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:47 ami tried swapping IDE cables as well as resetting the RAM and the video card. the problem still occurs, so the only thing must be the IDE interface? what would this mean a new mobo?
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 11:42 amEither that or you can buy PCI expansion cards giving you extra IDE connectors (normally for RAID, but they will do fine for single drives too).
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 7:40 pmanother odd aspect of this problem is that if i let the computer sit for a day or so and then use it, it will sometimes get into knoppix AND the hard drive will be accessible. after a while if you contiue to access the drive, it will crash (strange vertical lines of different colors will appear across the screen and nothing responds). how can this be explained?
Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 6:50 pmPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:51 amso in order to try and remedy this problem i replaced the mother board. however, this did not solve it. also, replacing the video card and sound card had no effect. i have also tried two different sticks of ram. none of this had any effect. so now, the only things left to replace are the cd roms, the power supply (which is an antec truepower 550 W) and the processor (AMD XP 2400+)...what could still be causing the problem?