improfound
Junior Member
I have a complicated problem, and I'd appreciate any advice you may have.
I have an XP p4 machine worked for a year, then got to the point where it wouldn't POST 90% of the time I tried to start it up. A new power supply (Antec 600w) fixed the problem for a few months, but then it came back. I just assumed the problem was the mobo.
Today I thought I'd try to make sure that it was the mobo. I pulled off the hard drive power connecters and dvd power connector. I turned on the computer. The comp went through the MSI splash screen and said it couldn't boot and asked me to put a disk in the a: drive. I didn't do that. I reconnected the hard drive power connectors and the dvd connector, and the thing booted up to Windows. Then crashed after a few minutes. (I briefly glimpsed one of those blue "not_less_equal errors.) Then I booted it up again, and it hung on "Searching for IDE drives." Booted again, and it said it couldn't find the array. (I'm using two hard drives in a striped RAID array.) Subsequent boots went back and forth between these two errors, then it finally booted to Windows. It has been working fine for over an hour.
My question -- does this seem like a hard drive problem or a mobo problem? Should I just take it to a shop and have them run a diagnostic test?
Thanks in advance for your help!!!!
I have an XP p4 machine worked for a year, then got to the point where it wouldn't POST 90% of the time I tried to start it up. A new power supply (Antec 600w) fixed the problem for a few months, but then it came back. I just assumed the problem was the mobo.
Today I thought I'd try to make sure that it was the mobo. I pulled off the hard drive power connecters and dvd power connector. I turned on the computer. The comp went through the MSI splash screen and said it couldn't boot and asked me to put a disk in the a: drive. I didn't do that. I reconnected the hard drive power connectors and the dvd connector, and the thing booted up to Windows. Then crashed after a few minutes. (I briefly glimpsed one of those blue "not_less_equal errors.) Then I booted it up again, and it hung on "Searching for IDE drives." Booted again, and it said it couldn't find the array. (I'm using two hard drives in a striped RAID array.) Subsequent boots went back and forth between these two errors, then it finally booted to Windows. It has been working fine for over an hour.
My question -- does this seem like a hard drive problem or a mobo problem? Should I just take it to a shop and have them run a diagnostic test?
Thanks in advance for your help!!!!
