Ok here is the situation:
PC is an IBM desktop with the following:
PIII/1g
256mb PC 133
Integrated video and audio (815 chipset)
100 watt PSU (WOW)
Maxtor 20g (1/3 height)
48x CDRom and generic floppy.
Worked fine for about 3 months and then started getting a little flakey. Would take two or three tries to get it to boot, but once it was booted ran fine. Then it would not complete a boot no matter what. It will get to where it is loading Windows (2k SP4) then re-boot. Basically same place everytime. I did notice that the hdd was making a faint squeeking noise sometimes, didn't seem to be constant with the re-boot timing though.
Tried the following:
Different memory, different (tested) PSU, pulled CPU and cleaned it and re-applied AS-5,
installed Adaptec 29160n and Fujitsu U160 hdd and tried to install ubuntu (On the grounds that maybe it was the Maxtor hdd), still re-boots at about the same time. (Will get about 1/3 of the way through the ubuntu install and poof... This alone seems to point at the MB.)
I then transferred the CPU and memory to the PC I am currently typing this on with no problems.
I checked the mb over carefully and could not find any obvious problems.. (Caps blown etc.) It looks to me like a wierd MB problem, but before I go ahead and use it for a clay target I was wondering if someone had any suggestions?
Thanks!
Rob
PC is an IBM desktop with the following:
PIII/1g
256mb PC 133
Integrated video and audio (815 chipset)
100 watt PSU (WOW)
Maxtor 20g (1/3 height)
48x CDRom and generic floppy.
Worked fine for about 3 months and then started getting a little flakey. Would take two or three tries to get it to boot, but once it was booted ran fine. Then it would not complete a boot no matter what. It will get to where it is loading Windows (2k SP4) then re-boot. Basically same place everytime. I did notice that the hdd was making a faint squeeking noise sometimes, didn't seem to be constant with the re-boot timing though.
Tried the following:
Different memory, different (tested) PSU, pulled CPU and cleaned it and re-applied AS-5,
installed Adaptec 29160n and Fujitsu U160 hdd and tried to install ubuntu (On the grounds that maybe it was the Maxtor hdd), still re-boots at about the same time. (Will get about 1/3 of the way through the ubuntu install and poof... This alone seems to point at the MB.)
I then transferred the CPU and memory to the PC I am currently typing this on with no problems.
I checked the mb over carefully and could not find any obvious problems.. (Caps blown etc.) It looks to me like a wierd MB problem, but before I go ahead and use it for a clay target I was wondering if someone had any suggestions?
Thanks!
Rob
