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All drives check out diagnostically. System disk is the 30GB...that's where my Boot.ini is. This is an ATA 80pin HD. This is my oldest drive. I've thought about replacing, but for some reason it is really difficult to change the location of the system disk on this motherboard. I think it needs to be an ATA. My Boot disk is where my operating
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I had the same problem about a year and a half ago. I realized the power supply was going because the rail voltages were dropping under load. Replaced the power supply just in time as the computer was wildly resetting. Found char marks on the connectors to the power supply and motherboard. Been up and running since then. Now I continuously monitor the
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The first thing that came to mind when the system crashed was... do I have everything backed up? I think I do... actually this was the second thing that ran through my head... the first was... "oh crap" Thanks for your help
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My Northbridge (Silver Heatsink Labeled ASUS) feel warm to touch, but not hot. I already have a 5 fans installed in my Antec SoHo server case not including the 2 heatsink fans on my processors and 1 fan on my videocard. I have a side fan blowing on the video card, NorthBridge, and Southbridge (just below the PCI slots and above the SATA ports in the
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Hey everyone, Been having recurrent system freezes over the last couple of weeks. On reset.. CPU OK Memory OK and then hangs on the following screen: SATA 378 TX2 plus Bios version 1.00.0.33 Promise Technology 2002-2005 Unable to even access the Bios when this happens despite multiple resets. However, if I completely shut everything down and perform
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Try placing the old drive in an external enclosure and connect via USB or Firewire depending on what type of computer you have
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I'm actually having the same problem with an 80Gb Western Digital. The diagnostic for Western Digital has been reading it as ok and formats it, but WinXP doesn't recognize the format. I'm currently looking for an old copy of fdisk to see if that works. I'll let you know if this works, might be the same problem for both disks
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Have multi-boot system with small system disk that needs replacing. What is the safest way to transfer/replace without losing operating system on boot disk? Currently system disk is IDE. Boot disk is SATA. Thanks in advance
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PC up and running with a nw Seasonic S12. When I opened up the case and pulled the old PSU found scorch marks on the 24pin plug. Everything else seems to be running fine since the swap. Looks like the damage was limited to the PSU. Thanks for the help
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PC went down last night...started restarting in rapid succession, low voltage errors were popping up right before in went down...hopefully nothing else got fried... I'll let everyone know how it goes when the new parts come in. Wish me luck