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Hi,
The computer I put together for a friend about three years ago has started spontaneously rebooting, and the problem is getting worse. I don't think it is overheating, all the fans are working as they should, and the PSU is only about a year old. It's an Epox 8K7A+ motherboard with an AMD XP 2400 which had, until this problem arose in recent weeks, performed excellently. It's running Win 98 SE. The reboot seems to occur while online and browsing under IE 6 or mail reading under OE 6 but I can't make a direct cause-and-effect connection between any operation and the reboot. Can anyone suggest a procedure to try to locate/eliminate the problem? Thanks in advance |
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"Leachim Sredna" wrote in message ... Hi, The computer I put together for a friend about three years ago has started spontaneously rebooting, and the problem is getting worse. I don't think it is overheating, all the fans are working as they should, and the PSU is only about a year old. It's an Epox 8K7A+ motherboard with an AMD XP 2400 which had, until this problem arose in recent weeks, performed excellently. It's running Win 98 SE. The reboot seems to occur while online and browsing under IE 6 or mail reading under OE 6 but I can't make a direct cause-and-effect connection between any operation and the reboot. Can anyone suggest a procedure to try to locate/eliminate the problem? Thanks in advance Is there a lot of dust in the case? First thing to do is swap power supplies. If new hardware was added recently and then it started rebooting I'd suspect the PSU is too weak for the hardware its running. Age doesn't have much to do with it. |
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"Leachim Sredna" wrote in message ... Hi, The computer I put together for a friend about three years ago has started spontaneously rebooting, and the problem is getting worse. I don't think it is overheating, all the fans are working as they should, and the PSU is only about a year old. It's an Epox 8K7A+ motherboard with an AMD XP 2400 which had, until this problem arose in recent weeks, performed excellently. It's running Win 98 SE. The reboot seems to occur while online and browsing under IE 6 or mail reading under OE 6 but I can't make a direct cause-and-effect connection between any operation and the reboot. Can anyone suggest a procedure to try to locate/eliminate the problem? Thanks in advance The last Epox (think it was that exact model) that came in with similar symptoms turned out to have defective electrolytic capacitors. Look for any that are leaking or have buldging tops. A google for "epox bad caps" will be an eye-opener! HTH, -- Rob |
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Rob said the following on 24/01/07 13:59:
"Leachim Sredna" wrote in message ... Hi, The computer I put together for a friend about three years ago has started spontaneously rebooting, and the problem is getting worse. [snipped] The last Epox (think it was that exact model) that came in with similar symptoms turned out to have defective electrolytic capacitors. Look for any that are leaking or have buldging tops. A google for "epox bad caps" will be an eye-opener! HTH, I photographed this on a motherboard that had the exact same thing happening to. It seems that five working years is the usual time given to a motherboard. http://www.kdbanglia.com/motherboard.htm Richard. -- "This week I have mostly been listening to - ELPs 'Brain Salad Surgery', 'Tarkus' and Tangerine Dream's 'Rubycon'." |
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I would say that if the rebooting only occurs while you are using IE6
and outlook exchange and never any other time you can suume that a common component used in both ie6 and oe is causing your reboot problem. Have you done any windows updates recently. If so the poblem may lie within. On Jan 24, 12:41 pm, "Leachim Sredna" wrote: Hi, The computer I put together for a friend about three years ago has started spontaneously rebooting, and the problem is getting worse. I don't think it is overheating, all the fans are working as they should, and the PSU is only about a year old. It's an Epox 8K7A+ motherboard with an AMD XP 2400 which had, until this problem arose in recent weeks, performed excellently. It's running Win 98 SE. The reboot seems to occur while online and browsing under IE 6 or mail reading under OE 6 but I can't make a direct cause-and-effect connection between any operation and the reboot. Can anyone suggest a procedure to try to locate/eliminate the problem? Thanks in advance |
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I too have seen this all too comon problem but mostley on Soltek board
rather than the normaly better Epox kit. On Jan 24, 3:49 pm, Richard Brooks wrote: Rob said the following on 24/01/07 13:59: "Leachim Sredna" wrote in message ... Hi, The computer I put together for a friend about three years ago has started spontaneously rebooting, and the problem is getting worse. [snipped] The last Epox (think it was that exact model) that came in with similar symptoms turned out to have defective electrolytic capacitors. Look for any that are leaking or have buldging tops. A google for "epox bad caps" will be an eye-opener! HTH,I photographed this on a motherboard that had the exact same thing happening to. It seems that five working years is the usual time given to a motherboard. http://www.kdbanglia.com/motherboard.htm Richard. -- "This week I have mostly been listening to - ELPs 'Brain Salad Surgery', 'Tarkus' and Tangerine Dream's 'Rubycon'." |
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"Leachim Sredna" wrote in message ... Thanx, chaps. Had a look at the capacitors and fear it may well be that, though PSU may be culprit also. What a bummer, I really liked this board too. Dunno if I'll be able to get Epox to replace them, without a receipt, or if it is even worth the trouble now. Funny that it only seems to happen under IE6/OE6, and after the thing has warmed up a bit. But some of those capacitors look real bad! Ho-hum! Yep, one the one I looked at, IE seemed to crash it more than anything else, so wasted a lot of time trying to fix that instead. :-/ I guess IE is just so badly written that it uses a lot of CPU/memory resources and this highlights the problem.. If you can solder, it may be worth changing them yourself - if so, don't bother trying to unsolder them properly, as you'll likely damage the through-hole plating. Just pull the cans off using pliers and snip the remaining leads so there's a few mm left to solder the new ones to. HTH, -- Rob |
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Rob wrote:
Yep, one the one I looked at, IE seemed to crash it more than anything else, so wasted a lot of time trying to fix that instead. :-/ I guess IE is just so badly written that it uses a lot of CPU/memory resources and this highlights the problem.. That's a bit harsh on IE. Modern web browsers are naturally fault-prone applications because of the range of dynamic content that they have to process. A single-bit error in a static data array is much less likely to cause a crash than a single-bit error in a pointer. You get the same effect with Firefox or Opera on machines with flaky hardware. -- John Jordan |
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"John Jordan" wrote in message ... Rob wrote: Yep, one the one I looked at, IE seemed to crash it more than anything else, so wasted a lot of time trying to fix that instead. :-/ I guess IE is just so badly written that it uses a lot of CPU/memory resources and this highlights the problem.. That's a bit harsh on IE. Modern web browsers are naturally fault-prone applications because of the range of dynamic content that they have to process. A single-bit error in a static data array is much less likely to cause a crash than a single-bit error in a pointer. You get the same effect with Firefox or Opera on machines with flaky hardware. You're right, John. It's a little like blaming XP for crashing during installation, when it actually does us a favour by highlighting the fact that [the usual problem is] the currently installed RAM is dodgy. Unfortunately, the error messages given tend to lead many up the garden path! - How many perfectly working installation CDs and optical drives have been replaced because of that?! Thank gawd for usenet and web search engines (but even then, knowing how to phrase the search term and quickly sift the results can only be gained by experience sigh.) Best, -- Rob |
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