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Hi Richard,
Thanks to Herman, Dingo and you for the tips. I guess I'll get to
work.
Most likely a drive I think. I replaced the power supply about 4
months ago -- with a high quality one, supposedly. CPU fan is
working for sure, board seems to be running 2-4 degrees C hot, but
CPU temp is holding at normal for ambient.
I went in there and blew everything out thoroughly with HFC152a, but
that does not seem to get temps back to normal. Generally, I'm a
good housekeeper. (^_-)
This board (Asus P4PE) seems to always have had some problems with
four devices (two primary and two secondary). I have given up (and I
know how to jumper and setup for sure) running three IDE drives (plus
a DVD), because I always got disk errors. They disappeared when I
finally gave up and stopped trying to use a drive on the secondary
master (secondary slave works just fine, don't ask me why, but it
seems the board does not like two secondary devices). Primary master
is the system drive, primary slave is the DVD. I also tried moving
the DVD to both secondary positions (using three drives as well), but
the board/system was not happy with any of those combinations either.
So I'm running primary master drive, primary slave DVD, secondary
master vacant, secondary slave drive. Been working fine like that
for a long time ... until today. Primary master is 5 years old
however, Seagate, maybe time to collect its pension.
I have a SCSI subsystem as well with two drives.
I did get a 1GB dump from the evening reboot, but I find them
basically unfathomable. ^_^
Thanks again,
Yuki
Saturday, May 24, 2008, 11:03:03 AM, you wrote:
RD> Backup/clone to TWO separate hard drive as soon as possible, then remove
RD> each cloned hard drive from your system before you do anything else. Don't
RD> use the third hard drive in your system at all - this is your "last resort"
RD> hard drive in case you have a terminal problem in your PC such as a bad
RD> power supply.
RD> Test one of your backup hard drives and see if it actually works as planned
RD> ? there?s nothing worse than an inoperative backup.
RD> There?s a reasonable chance that it?s either your hard drive or your power
RD> supply if your computer has otherwise been stable. Hard drives are very
RD> cheap now (1000GB for just over $200).
RD> Maybe a cleanout of dust in your PSU/fans might be a good start.
RD> Best regards,
RD> Richard Dale.
RD> Norgate Investor Services
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RD> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
RD> [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
RD> Of Yuki Taga
RD> Sent: Saturday, 24 May 2008 9:39 AM
RD> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
RD> Subject: [amibroker] OT: computer meltdown?
RD> I built this box five years ago, so I suppose problems would only be
RD> natural at some point.
RD> 1) Spontaneous reboot last night -- out of the blue. Log says disk
RD> error.
RD> 2) Board seems to be running hotter, but within range. CPU temp
RD> normal.
RD> 3) Box seemed to run normally this morning (after the spontaneous
RD> reboot), but again rebooted itself about 10 am.
RD> 4) No errors in log this time.
RD> 5) On the reboot, system could not autodetect primary channel at
RD> first. I shut down and then after a few minutes it detected and
RD> reboot was okay.
RD> But obviously, something is not okay. Fans seem to be working. I'm
RD> writing this on the box, so the box is not totally toast just yet.
RD> Suggestions for troubleshooting? (Redundantly backed up, so no
RD> problems if worst comes to worst -- just annoyances.)
RD> Yuki
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