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DVA018
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on June 15 2001
Six Century Club
"Keep yer wheels off the ground" Spokane, WA USA
984 legs, 1,958.5 hours
20 legs,
35.1 hours online 227 legs,
397.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 03 2009 02:31 ET by Larry Hart
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This good computer is slowly dying. A few days ago it began to not boot up all the time. It would turn on, memory lights would sort of flash a bit but not fully as normal on boot, then memory lights go out. The video card stays in fast fan mode, no monitor turn on. Doesn't even get up to post, don't see all drives flash lights. Reset the bios with the battery pull, same thing, tested the memory, good. Low level formatted hard drive and re-installed Windows, same thing. Pulled one card and drive at a time, same thing every time, but intermittently. Never overclocked the thing. I'm slowly losing it as the problem increases. Has an Nvidia nForce 4 SLI x 16 chipset, big heatsink. Wierd thing is, if it does work, like now, and it comes up to Windows, everything works just fine... till I try to turn it on again. Think the chipset (or motherboard) might be dying? Possibly power supply? Many thanks.
Specs:
Asus P5N32 SLI SE Deluxe mobo
Intel Core 2 duo E6600 2.4 Ghz cpu
ATI X1900XT video card PCIe
Creative X-FI sound card
WD Raptor 150 Gig SATA Hard drive
Windows XP SP3
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DVA2253
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
COMM
Joined on April 01 2005
Everett 250 Club
Online Century Club
Eight Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
"I'd rather be flying!" Church Hill, TN USA
862 legs, 1,344.5 hours
108 legs,
165.2 hours online 299 legs,
485.1 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 03 2009 09:29 ET by George Lewis
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any number of things could prevent it from booting - you mentioned you reinstalled windows. I take it the system boots up, but intermittently? If you leave it on all the time, does it shut itself off? If you reboot the system versus cold boot, is there any change?
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DVA1070
Senior Captain, B777-200
COMM
Joined on January 28 2003
Online Century Club
Double Century Club
"I believe I can fly" Jeffersonville, IN USA
218 legs, 841.9 hours
182 legs,
778.3 hours online 108 legs,
505.1 hours ACARS 42 legs,
200.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
February 03 2009 09:39 ET by Adam Gaweda
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I had something similar happen with my old PC, had to replace the power supply.
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DVA018
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on June 15 2001
Six Century Club
"Keep yer wheels off the ground" Spokane, WA USA
984 legs, 1,958.5 hours
20 legs,
35.1 hours online 227 legs,
397.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 03 2009 11:15 ET by Larry Hart
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Yes, boots up intermittently. Doesn't shut itself off if I leave it on. No change on cold boot. Adam, I noticed last night while watching the power supply voltages, the 5 volt would occasionally drop into the red, ie., it would go lower than 4.5 volts. That might explain a few things...appreciate it guys, don't want to dump a bunch of $ into this.
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DVA1070
Senior Captain, B777-200
COMM
Joined on January 28 2003
Online Century Club
Double Century Club
"I believe I can fly" Jeffersonville, IN USA
218 legs, 841.9 hours
182 legs,
778.3 hours online 108 legs,
505.1 hours ACARS 42 legs,
200.5 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
February 04 2009 12:06 ET by Adam Gaweda
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Mine booted up intermittently as well, symptoms looked like a leaky capacitor or something like that
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DVA018
Senior Captain, MD-11
E-MAIL
Joined on June 15 2001
Six Century Club
"Keep yer wheels off the ground" Spokane, WA USA
984 legs, 1,958.5 hours
20 legs,
35.1 hours online 227 legs,
397.6 hours ACARS
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Posted onPost created on
February 04 2009 12:30 ET by Larry Hart
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Yes, I really appreciate the thoughts and help guys. This one kinda had me a bit stumped for awhile. Watching the voltages, the +5 volt range swings all over the place, down to near 4 and up to almost 7 volts. I can't run it with 2 sticks of memory in dual channel, have to use only 1 stick. The power supply is a BFG 650 watt. I ordered a new one from Newegg, an 850 watt Corsair TX. I hear they are top notch. They use big torroid coils and industrial grade Japaneze capacitors. Should able to use it on my next system. $139. Again, thanks to both of you.
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