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System funky - suggestions needed

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bozo1

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One of my systems has been being funky for the past few days. Here's the scoop:

Epox 8K7A, 1.33 TBird (was overclocked to 1.55, now just at default), 512M Crucial PC2100, Globalwin CAK38 HSF.
Adaptec 29160, 3 Cheetah 36GB Ultra160 drives, Herc Game Theater XP, Intel 10/100 Nic, Matrox G450, W2K SP2.

All has been working fine for > 4 months until 5 days ago. The system started spontaneously rebooting - sometimes after being on for 12 hours, sometimes it would reboot during bootup. Sometimes it would bluescreen with totally different errors. Sometimes during boot it would tell me that \winnt\system32\config\system was missing or invalid. Many different errors that don't seem related. I've wiped the drive and reinstalled the OS and still have problems. (Sometimes it would bluescreen during the OS install) I've installed W2K to a different drive because it seems that disk related errors would pop up more than the others (bluescreens referring to ntfs.sys) but the problems persist.

I've reseated my cards, RAM and replaced my Antec 400 PS with an Enermax 465VE.

I was thinking this was heat related as it's been very hot here (98-degrees in my apartment) but the weather broke today (78 in here now) and the problems persist. Even when it was hot my CPU temperature never rose about 48-degrees.

Anyway, suggestions anyone? I'm starting to suspect a flaky mobo.
 
Bozo1 - I don't think it's your motherboard, so don't worry about that... I'm sure that the problem is heat though.

Since you say that your apartment has been hot, I am lead to believe that your case has trapped in a lot more heat than usual. Was it restarting spontaneously while you had it at 1.55? Or is it still doing it at 1.33? If it's working fine at 1.33 Ghz, then I would say that you're problem is solved... however , if it isn't, then I would say that your periperhals are is the culprit.

Try to run your comp w/o the case cover... this will give it a really nice vent... leave it on and test it for a set length... if it doesn't restart.. then you know it's heat.. if it is restarting still... then it's due to some hardware probs.

Good luck

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Thanks for the reply. I still have problems at 1.33. I don't think it's heat cause the thing has been off for about 20 hours and I turned it on and blue screened during boot.

I'm leaning toward drive problems or something with my SCSI controller now. The drive that I thought was causing problems I wiped and just put a 2GB FAT partition on it (for boot files) and attempted installing W2K to another drive. During setup, it got about 30% done then started erring out saying it couldn't copy files. Hitting Esc to bypass the file in question skipped to the next file, same error. After doing that 4 or 5 times, it bluescreened with an NTFS error.

Sigh... 🙁:disgust:

Oh wow, brainstorm. Guess I could rip out the SCSI and give it a go with a regular IDE drive. That'll let me know if my problem is scsi related.
 
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