I've been chasing problems with my new system for 8 weeks.
Latest symptom of wierdness (after having disappearing IDE drive...that reappeared, OS installs that worked...then kluged (vista 64 and XP, learned the dual boot lesson the hard way)), the latest symptom is a usb card reader that, when I simply touched the connector to the port, set off a 4-beep sequence which Asus says is a system timer error.
My memory is good, I've already tested that.
The error repeated several times. Asus tech said rma the board. But then I plugged in another USB device, a joystick. No problem, installed fine (I'm on OS install #7!), then I plugged in the card reader again...no problem!
Called the system tech that I bought the system from (All PC Zone), and he said perhaps the cheap power supply they sell with the system (Okia 600W atx) is the culprit and I've got too much on the system or ...blah blah blah...everytime I call he's got a new suggestion, nice guy but how much troubleshooting can a person take?
Here's what I've got on the system:
Windows Vista 64bit
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Quad core 6600
8GB Kingston DDR 2 667 memory
nVidia 7600 GS PCI e
2 SATA drives (500GB and 320GB)
2 IDE drives (250GB x 2)
3 SATA DVD burners (2 Asus 1814 and one Pioneer, all DL) One of the Asus drives is currently disconnected because whenever I hit Del to go into bios during the splash screen, the post list of drives would hang on that DVD drive. When I disconnected it, it would post properly and go right to bios.
The techie also said maybe I was overloading the board.
One other symptom:
the beeping thing started last night when the USB connector on the card reader accidentally touched the USB port. That was the first time, and it crashed the system during an install of a program. I had to uninstall the program, reinstall (it's working now), but the beeping continued.
My main question I guess: should I replace the power supply with a better one, or am I looking at some other glitch here? Right now it's working fine, but given all the strange things that have happened the last 2 months, does anyone see a pattern or clue here that might help return me to stable computing?
Latest symptom of wierdness (after having disappearing IDE drive...that reappeared, OS installs that worked...then kluged (vista 64 and XP, learned the dual boot lesson the hard way)), the latest symptom is a usb card reader that, when I simply touched the connector to the port, set off a 4-beep sequence which Asus says is a system timer error.
My memory is good, I've already tested that.
The error repeated several times. Asus tech said rma the board. But then I plugged in another USB device, a joystick. No problem, installed fine (I'm on OS install #7!), then I plugged in the card reader again...no problem!
Called the system tech that I bought the system from (All PC Zone), and he said perhaps the cheap power supply they sell with the system (Okia 600W atx) is the culprit and I've got too much on the system or ...blah blah blah...everytime I call he's got a new suggestion, nice guy but how much troubleshooting can a person take?
Here's what I've got on the system:
Windows Vista 64bit
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Quad core 6600
8GB Kingston DDR 2 667 memory
nVidia 7600 GS PCI e
2 SATA drives (500GB and 320GB)
2 IDE drives (250GB x 2)
3 SATA DVD burners (2 Asus 1814 and one Pioneer, all DL) One of the Asus drives is currently disconnected because whenever I hit Del to go into bios during the splash screen, the post list of drives would hang on that DVD drive. When I disconnected it, it would post properly and go right to bios.
The techie also said maybe I was overloading the board.
One other symptom:
the beeping thing started last night when the USB connector on the card reader accidentally touched the USB port. That was the first time, and it crashed the system during an install of a program. I had to uninstall the program, reinstall (it's working now), but the beeping continued.
My main question I guess: should I replace the power supply with a better one, or am I looking at some other glitch here? Right now it's working fine, but given all the strange things that have happened the last 2 months, does anyone see a pattern or clue here that might help return me to stable computing?
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