- Jan 22, 2010
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This is the same system as this thread. Short version: When I swapped to a new motherboard, the first time I turned it on I saw a flash and saw some smoke. I thought I had narrowed the flash down to a stray strand of wire from a sloppy solder job. I looked closely and saw no visible damage to the motherboard.
The system has been running for about six weeks, now. I thought it was pretty stable. I run SETI@Home, so the CPU is maxed out most of the time.
Today, I walked in to a black monitor. A warm reset went through the BIOS logo and ended up back on a black screen.
When I go into the BIOS, the boot drive, the SSD, is not in the list of available devices.. I have to do a cold boot, and then it's visible. I have to set it manually in the BIOS. Then, it boots fine.
It has rebooted twice tonight while I've been using it. It runs for a couple of hours and then Windows crashes. One time, it sat on the blue screen, trying to write a diagnostic file, for a couple of minutes. Then it rebooted. I think the first time it just went straight to the reboot.
I have not let the system cool down between boots. I just power it off for ten secs and then fire it right back up.
My two guesses are: Either the motherboard actually did get damaged in the incident I mention in the other thread. Or, the SSD is dying.
The SSD is an ADATA 512 GB. It's the second one I've had in this machine. It was a warranty replacement installed in Nov '15. The first one lasted about 22 months. This one is about 21 months old. So, that's a little suspicious. Albeit, an SSD is usually an all or nothing thing. This issue is intermittent, so far.
Does anyone have any other ideas on how I can narrow this down? Has anyone actually seen a motherboard lose track of one of the internal SATA drives during a session?
Just happened a third time when I was about to post this. Luckily, I'm typing this up on another machine.
Stop code: Critical_Process_Died. It rebooted before I could double-check that I had copied that correctly.
Thanks,
Drake Christensen
The system has been running for about six weeks, now. I thought it was pretty stable. I run SETI@Home, so the CPU is maxed out most of the time.
Today, I walked in to a black monitor. A warm reset went through the BIOS logo and ended up back on a black screen.
When I go into the BIOS, the boot drive, the SSD, is not in the list of available devices.. I have to do a cold boot, and then it's visible. I have to set it manually in the BIOS. Then, it boots fine.
It has rebooted twice tonight while I've been using it. It runs for a couple of hours and then Windows crashes. One time, it sat on the blue screen, trying to write a diagnostic file, for a couple of minutes. Then it rebooted. I think the first time it just went straight to the reboot.
I have not let the system cool down between boots. I just power it off for ten secs and then fire it right back up.
My two guesses are: Either the motherboard actually did get damaged in the incident I mention in the other thread. Or, the SSD is dying.
The SSD is an ADATA 512 GB. It's the second one I've had in this machine. It was a warranty replacement installed in Nov '15. The first one lasted about 22 months. This one is about 21 months old. So, that's a little suspicious. Albeit, an SSD is usually an all or nothing thing. This issue is intermittent, so far.
Does anyone have any other ideas on how I can narrow this down? Has anyone actually seen a motherboard lose track of one of the internal SATA drives during a session?
Just happened a third time when I was about to post this. Luckily, I'm typing this up on another machine.
Stop code: Critical_Process_Died. It rebooted before I could double-check that I had copied that correctly.
Thanks,
Drake Christensen
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