Old board, new problems

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hey all, hopping someone can help me figure this one out.

Got a buddy who's computer system is running fine for 20 min, then it locks up.
Mouse wont move, keyboard wont respond ctrl-alt-del wont do a thing, so it has
to be hard reset. This seems to run in cycles of 20 mintues. We've done 2
seperate installs of Windows, run memtest (no errors), and when it was
installed it was off the network and had Norton on it before running in to the
net. I've tried both the current 4-in-1 drivers as well as the ones that
viaarena recomends for older 1xx chipsets (this is a 133), nothing seems to
make a difference. Also I would check the temp in bios after each hard reboot
and it would read about 35-40C for CPU, I was also running it wiht the case
open when these reboots were needed.

The system is running a Shuttle AK12 with a 1.3 Athlon and 512megs of RAM. He
just recently upgraded the Harddrive to a Western Digital 120gig, had to swap
out the old compusa brand CD-RW for a memorex 52x cd rom and installed XP Home.

The thing ran fine with the old harddrive and WinME but it ate itself and he
had to actualy go out and buy an OS hence the XP and new HD. I've run out of
ideas on how to get this thing up and running so if anyone can help thanks.

Arie
 
Hmm. Try having a nice 10" or 12" dia fan blowing cool air into the case.
Pref on an angle, so that it's approximately aimed to blow across the CPU
and towards the rear of the case.

If this doesn't increase the run time, would it be possible to swap in a
different PSU temporarily?

And if *that* doesn't help, I'd be having a peek at the thermal interface
for the CPU.

Please post a follow-up.
Ron
 
hey all, hopping someone can help me figure this one out.

Got a buddy who's computer system is running fine for 20 min, then it locks up.
Mouse wont move, keyboard wont respond ctrl-alt-del wont do a thing, so it has
to be hard reset. This seems to run in cycles of 20 mintues. We've done 2
seperate installs of Windows, run memtest (no errors), and when it was
installed it was off the network and had Norton on it before running in to the
net. I've tried both the current 4-in-1 drivers as well as the ones that
viaarena recomends for older 1xx chipsets (this is a 133), nothing seems to
make a difference. Also I would check the temp in bios after each hard reboot
and it would read about 35-40C for CPU, I was also running it wiht the case
open when these reboots were needed.

The system is running a Shuttle AK12 with a 1.3 Athlon and 512megs of RAM. He
just recently upgraded the Harddrive to a Western Digital 120gig, had to swap
out the old compusa brand CD-RW for a memorex 52x cd rom and installed XP Home.

The thing ran fine with the old harddrive and WinME but it ate itself and he
had to actualy go out and buy an OS hence the XP and new HD. I've run out of
ideas on how to get this thing up and running so if anyone can help thanks.

Arie
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The Southbridge is a 686B, which has a known problem with file
transfer over the IDE interface. I don't know if that is somehow related
to your problem or not. In Google, there is mention of newer, faster
disks upsetting what used to be fixed by the Via 4in1 patch for
delayed transaction and some other settings.

A freeze like that would normally suggest a problem with AGP.
You don't mention what video card you are using, but if possible,
find an older version of driver. My experience is, if this is an
Nvidia video card, the newer drivers don't work as well as older
ones. It is best to stick with drivers from the same era as the card.

HTH,
Paul
 
Thanks for all the input guys, the board is about an hour south so it'll prob
have to wait till the weekend before I can physicaly take a look at it, its
running a voodoo 3 card in the agp slot.

Thing that confuses me is that all these peices of hardware (except HD and
CD-ROM) were working perfectly find under the old OS. Nothing was swapped out
or even moved on the motherboard and its running a enermax 350 PSU which tested
out fine as well.

Thanks everyone
 
In XP you can go to my computer, manage, and look at problems. If there is
something with the system crashing you should be able to see the red circle
with the "X" in it for errors

SPRITE1001 said:
hey all, hopping someone can help me figure this one out.

Got a buddy who's computer system is running fine for 20 min, then it
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locks up.
 
Yeah I've done the remote managment thing, and it locked up when I had it up
here. All the drivers looked to have loaded correctly and none of the devces in
device manager had any issue.
 
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