Possibly a bad MoBo?

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Folks, I've got a PC Chips M812L (Baby AT socket A SiS 730 chipset), running a Maxtor 7200rpm 80GB HDD with a Duron 1.2Ghz and 256MB of PC133 Micron SDRAM. It intermittently blanks out the screen and locks up the system requiring a reboot. If I go into the BIOS upon reboot it shows the HDD as a 52MB type 12 HDD and the date and time are all hosed up, no other settings, such as in the Advanced section, change . I've changed the CMOS battery and no dice. My next move was to swap out power supplies, which it is currently running a Q-Max AMD approved 350W ATX unit. Is it just me or is it starting to sound like a bad MoBo? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Rick

Update: Just tried another P/S and no dice. I was running the Burn-In wizard through SiSoft Sandra when it locked. Once agin, going into the BIOS shows a type 12 52MB HDD.

 

[amdskip]

run some tests from maxtor on that drive, could be bad

 

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Okay, just swapped the single 256MB stick of PC133 for two 128MB sticks of Infineon and am running SiSoft Sandra's Burn-In with no problems so far. amdskip, I've run Maxtor's diagnostics on the hard drive and that comes up with a clean bill of health. Hopefully it turns out to be the RAM.

Rick

 

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Is it me or do I see a $hitload of Ram based problems on this forum ?

It's either Ram or Hard drives getting hosed , now hard drives I can understand but Ram is usually pretty good at keep for many years but the latest stuff doesn't seem to hold out for very long.

 

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Paul, it definitely is the RAM in this case, tried it in two other systems with the same results. And I agree with you, there does seem to be too many cases of RAM-based problems.:|