Re: Very Strange Problem

Hi,

3 thoughts.

1. If the Reset switch makes intermittent contact
you may get weird lockups and boot failures.
Unplug it from the m/b for a while.

2. Disconnect the burner. Any better ?
If so, could be writer or IDE cable.
Some burners don't like 80-wire cables.

3. Most likely (sorry).
Hard disk or IDE cable could be bad.
I've seen hard disks lockup a pc right after bios msg.
That's where hard disk auto detection take place.
Try running the HD manufacturer's diagnostic.
If the problem won't allow you, connect the disk
to a friend's PC (not at cable of his boot disk)
and run the diagnostic.

HTH,
John7



"Bob" <bob@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Here is the problem I have been having. Prior to upgrading my entire
> box, I was having what appeared to be power supply problems. That is,
> difficulty in finding USB devices, computer acting crazy on reboot,
> massive file corruption and then finally Windows 2000 not starting at
> all on reboot and requiring repeated reinstalls. I felt the problem was
> a bad power supply. We never diagnosed it but instead just redid most of
> the box and the problem seems to have gone away.
>
> However, with the new box I recently put on some new Windows updates (10
> of them) and rebooted. First of all, it would not shut down (a common
> problem from back in the "power problem" days). It came back up and lost
> the USB cable modem (a chronic problem with the prior setup) and it
> never could grab the cable modem again. I rebooted and it froze while
> loading at
>
> BIOS version
> [Something else]
> Checking memory
> 512 MB memory
> Press Del to Enter Setup
>
> Freeze.
>
> Furthermore, attempts to power off the box with the power button
> repeatedly failed. The box had to be powered off with the switch in the
> back of the computer. Repeated attempts to power off and back on the
> box resulted in the same freeze. The box would not accept any floppy at
> all, even a Checkit floppy that supposedly even boots a fried OS.
>
> Finally, I pulled the cord from the wall and put it back in and powered
> the box back on. Everything came back up fine and Windows 2000 found the
> cable modem again.
>
> This is really bizarre. It smells like the power supply problem again
> but there is a whole new power supply in the box. The box has:
>
> New power supply
> New motherboard
> New CPU
> New memory
> New video card
> New sound chip
> New DVD drive
>
> In short, everything is new on the box except for the hard drive and CD
> burner.
>
> Yet the same bizarre problems, which smell like "power problems"
> continue unabated.
>
> What gives? Any thoughts? I am terrified to reboot the box for fear of
> all the problems that may occur.
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