Swapped in ASROCK MoBo and HDD Light on all the time.

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Peter Harrington

I had a home built system with an AMD XP 1700+ chip and an Epox EP8kha+.
After 2.5 years (i.e., 0.5 years after the warranty expired) all the
capacitors on the motherboard fried. It started smoking actually.

Anyway, I like to avoid companies that use cheap parts so that their
products fail shortly after warranty. I talked to one of my friends who
fixes computers and he showed me a pile of motherboards with the same
problem.

I replaced the motherboard with an ASROCK K7S8XE. I checked the HDD LED
plug carefully on the install. The HDD LED is on all the time. I have my
HDD as the Master and a Slave CD on the primary IDE line. On the secondary
IDE line, I have a second CD and a Zip drive.

I read that old BIOS will exhibit this symptom on fully populated IDEs, so I
upgraded to the latest BIOS, but it did not solve this problem.

I contacted ASROCK technical support, but they have not responded yet.

Any suggestions,

TIA,

Pete
 
I had a home built system with an AMD XP 1700+ chip and an Epox EP8kha+.
After 2.5 years (i.e., 0.5 years after the warranty expired) all the
capacitors on the motherboard fried. It started smoking actually.

Anyway, I like to avoid companies that use cheap parts so that their
products fail shortly after warranty. I talked to one of my friends who
fixes computers and he showed me a pile of motherboards with the same
problem.

I replaced the motherboard with an ASROCK K7S8XE. I checked the HDD LED
plug carefully on the install. The HDD LED is on all the time. I have my
HDD as the Master and a Slave CD on the primary IDE line. On the secondary
IDE line, I have a second CD and a Zip drive.

I read that old BIOS will exhibit this symptom on fully populated IDEs, so I
upgraded to the latest BIOS, but it did not solve this problem.

I contacted ASROCK technical support, but they have not responded yet.

Any suggestions,

TIA,

Pete
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Try another Mobo. If you pride yourself on choosing the good bits,
why did you choose Asrock? Asrock is the budget brand for Asus.
 
I had a home built system with an AMD XP 1700+ chip and an Epox EP8kha+.
After 2.5 years (i.e., 0.5 years after the warranty expired) all the
capacitors on the motherboard fried. It started smoking actually.

Anyway, I like to avoid companies that use cheap parts so that their
products fail shortly after warranty. I talked to one of my friends who
fixes computers and he showed me a pile of motherboards with the same
problem.
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.... this about things go south quickly after a warranty period is over
is IMHO quite spread problem (feature) these last years with all kinds
of stuff, interesting that ... :-(

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Peter Harrington said:
I had a home built system with an AMD XP 1700+ chip and an Epox EP8kha+.
After 2.5 years (i.e., 0.5 years after the warranty expired) all the
capacitors on the motherboard fried. It started smoking actually.

Anyway, I like to avoid companies that use cheap parts so that their
products fail shortly after warranty. I talked to one of my friends who
fixes computers and he showed me a pile of motherboards with the same
problem.

I replaced the motherboard with an ASROCK K7S8XE. I checked the HDD LED
plug carefully on the install. The HDD LED is on all the time. I have my
HDD as the Master and a Slave CD on the primary IDE line. On the secondary
IDE line, I have a second CD and a Zip drive.

I read that old BIOS will exhibit this symptom on fully populated IDEs, so I
upgraded to the latest BIOS, but it did not solve this problem.

I contacted ASROCK technical support, but they have not responded yet.

Any suggestions,

TIA,

Pete
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You went from good (abit) to worse (asrock).

Craig
 
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