I have a very confusing technical problem that I am hoping someone could shed some light on.
I’m running a clone system using a Tyan Trinity and an AMD T-bird 1.2GHz CPU. Everything has been running fine for several months until I attempted to upgrade my 2 old 128MB PC100 DIMMs to a single 512MB PC133 DIMM.
When the new DIMM was installed the system would automatically reboot once it reached the Windows 2000 login screen. I removed the new RAM and re-installed the old RAM, which allowed me to boot the system. Everything was working ok for about 24 hours then the problems started. The CPU fan stopped running, which caused the system to re-boot and the freeze in BIOS. The fan was ok, but the power connector (on the motherboard) for the fan had failed. I connected the fan to a different connector and the system came back up. It then automatically rebooted while in use. I heard the primary hard drive spin down while in use right before the reboot. After the re-boot, the system's BIOS would no longer detect any of the IDE devices connected to it. I replaced the motherboard with an ABIT KT7 RAID, and still it would not detect the IDE devices. I also upgraded the power supply to 400W to make sure I had enough power for what I was running and replaced the CPU to be sure that it did not over heat. Still no luck, partial boot, then restart, then BIOS looses all IDE devices.
When I change the IDE configuration by moving a drive, changing a cable, or clearing the BIOS the hard drive is detected, then fails. Sometimes it gets to Windows then re-boots, some times it fails while loading, other times the BIOS wont detect the Hard drive at all. After any one of these failures the IDE devices absent from the BIOS. I have also tried running just the primary hard drive and a CD-ROM, booting from CD-ROM and reinstall re-installing Win2k, but with no luck.
If anyone has experienced anything like this, please help. I’m at a loss for ideas and out of $.
Thanks a lot,
Chris
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by cml0219 on 04/30/01 03:36 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
I’m running a clone system using a Tyan Trinity and an AMD T-bird 1.2GHz CPU. Everything has been running fine for several months until I attempted to upgrade my 2 old 128MB PC100 DIMMs to a single 512MB PC133 DIMM.
When the new DIMM was installed the system would automatically reboot once it reached the Windows 2000 login screen. I removed the new RAM and re-installed the old RAM, which allowed me to boot the system. Everything was working ok for about 24 hours then the problems started. The CPU fan stopped running, which caused the system to re-boot and the freeze in BIOS. The fan was ok, but the power connector (on the motherboard) for the fan had failed. I connected the fan to a different connector and the system came back up. It then automatically rebooted while in use. I heard the primary hard drive spin down while in use right before the reboot. After the re-boot, the system's BIOS would no longer detect any of the IDE devices connected to it. I replaced the motherboard with an ABIT KT7 RAID, and still it would not detect the IDE devices. I also upgraded the power supply to 400W to make sure I had enough power for what I was running and replaced the CPU to be sure that it did not over heat. Still no luck, partial boot, then restart, then BIOS looses all IDE devices.
When I change the IDE configuration by moving a drive, changing a cable, or clearing the BIOS the hard drive is detected, then fails. Sometimes it gets to Windows then re-boots, some times it fails while loading, other times the BIOS wont detect the Hard drive at all. After any one of these failures the IDE devices absent from the BIOS. I have also tried running just the primary hard drive and a CD-ROM, booting from CD-ROM and reinstall re-installing Win2k, but with no luck.
If anyone has experienced anything like this, please help. I’m at a loss for ideas and out of $.
Thanks a lot,
Chris
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by cml0219 on 04/30/01 03:36 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
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