[ale] new hardware problems

[Van Loggins]

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>Message: 11
>Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:43:57 -0400
>From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
>Subject: [ale] new hardware problems
>To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
>Message-ID: <42AD9BAD.3040009 at 3times25.net>
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>Well, got to pick out my father's day gift early.  It's been a pretty 
>big headache ever since.  :(   Here's the story:
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>New Asus a7n8x-e deluxe mb, new matched pair of ddr400 512m corsair 
>memory,  AMD Sempron 3000+ (relatively new, but known to work in another 
>mb). New WD Raptor 36g sata drive.  All assembled in a previously owned 
>Lian-li case.
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>New bios in the mb, 1013 the latest.
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>Box begins to boot, but seems to cycle through a couple of reboots 
>without me doing anything.  I say that because you see the monitor led 
>go green, then you hear what appears to be a reboot and the led goes 
>yellow, then green again.  Sometimes it will make it to the 'loading the 
>OS' message, other times I never see anything on the monitor.
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>It will spontaenously reboot, even when sitting in the bios screen. 
>I've been in the bios, when suddenly the box reboots.  It's not heat 
>related as the mb has monitoring and when I view the temps, they're okay.
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>The mb manual is of little help as you're not sure what's good/bad. 
>Start's by saying there are 4 memory slots (there are 3).  Then says you 
>can arrange matching dual channel ddr400 sticks in [1,3], [2,3] or 
>[1,2,3].  I've never seen matched sticks in threes...
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>It says you can use single-channel ddr400 one stick in any one of the 
>slots.  I have tried this, with three different sticks of ddr400, still 
>can not get a successful boot.
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>Any suggestions as to what this might be would be greatly appreciated. 
>Bad mb or memory I guess, but I don't even want to consider swapping the 
>board out.  I've got other ddr400 memory, but it's not 'paired.'  I've 
>tried it as well, but no luck.  I've gotten as far as actually getting 
>into the install when SuSE was loading the drive, but that suddenly 
>rebooted as well.
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>I guess I mostly suspect the mb, but what a pita to have to replace this 
>thing now.  :( 
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It is probably a silly question but have you tested your new hardware 
with another power supply?

The last time I had a system that would randomly reboot like that the 
power supply was not producing enough juice to keep the system running.

It would reboot in the manner that you described. Once I replaced it 
with another P/S it never gave me anymore problems.


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