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Thread ID: 15367	2002-02-05 07:53:00	Motherboard or Chip?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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34436	2002-02-05 07:53:00	Firstly, thankyou to everyone who has helped me thus far to solve my problem. But it is still there. I recently built a new PC with a combo of old and new parts. It is resetting itself randomly for no apparent reason and rebooting. It can do it after an hour of hard work playing Unreal tournament or while sitting idly at the desktop after 5 mins or even during a reboot it will sometimes reboot itself and start again. I have stripped it back to bare bones. i.e. no CDRom, no modem or network card, replaced floppy drive, replaced ram (several times) replaced power supply, swapped video cards (Voodoo 3 & Rage 128) wiggled every cable I can find to check for loose connections, taken off the reset button cable. Installed the latest via drivers for MOBO (Shuttle 12A ver 3.0) Checked the extension lead & surge protector, Done every thing I can possibly think of and no joy. Does anyone have anymore ideas? I have Duron 650 Chip in the board. Can a motherboard have a fault that would make it do this? Can a chip have a fault that would do this? and is there anyway of testing them. Should I give the vendor the opportunity to test the board or demand a replacement. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated	Guest (0)
34437	2002-02-05 08:21:00	My first reaction would be the mobo and/or processor. But PSU could be dodgy, can you try another one on same machine? robo.	Guest (0)
34438	2002-02-05 08:33:00	Thanks Robo, sorry I forgot to mention it's on it's second PSU now. The MOBO is new & the Chip is 2nd hand. Cheers	Guest (0)
34439	2002-02-05 23:17:00	I don't know if this will help, but I had all sorts of similar problems, with a computer straight from the manufacturer. They kept saying nothing was wrong, with hardware, but replaced video card. After months of updating drivers etc, I friend helped me track down the bios updates, it was'nt easy. These showed this was a known problem with this motherboard. Flashing the bios fixed all problems. You'd think an outfit like the PC Company would have be able to inform of this.	Guest (0)
34440	2002-02-06 04:22:00	Thanks Bill but after reading the BIOS post further down, I'm a little nervous about flashing the BIOS. Especially as this thing has a tendency to reset itself whenever it feels like it, and halfway theough a BIOS flash would not be good. I do know the board has a bootlock so I may have a go, but I will go to the manufacturers site and have a read up. If it doesn't work then back it goes to the supplier.	Guest (0)
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