[ale] new hardware problems

[Sergio Chaves]

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and it turned out to be the memory 
sticks.
Tried older sticks and I was back in business.


On Monday 13 June 2005 10:43 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> Well, got to pick out my father's day gift early.  It's been a pretty
> big headache ever since. :(  Here's the story:
>
> New Asus a7n8x-e deluxe mb, new matched pair of ddr400 512m corsair
> memory,  AMD Sempron 3000+ (relatively new, but known to work in another
> mb). New WD Raptor 36g sata drive.  All assembled in a previously owned
> Lian-li case.
>
> New bios in the mb, 1013 the latest.
>
> Box begins to boot, but seems to cycle through a couple of reboots
> without me doing anything.  I say that because you see the monitor led
> go green, then you hear what appears to be a reboot and the led goes
> yellow, then green again.  Sometimes it will make it to the 'loading the
> OS' message, other times I never see anything on the monitor.
>
> It will spontaenously reboot, even when sitting in the bios screen.
> I've been in the bios, when suddenly the box reboots.  It's not heat
> related as the mb has monitoring and when I view the temps, they're okay.
>
> The mb manual is of little help as you're not sure what's good/bad.
> Start's by saying there are 4 memory slots (there are 3).  Then says you
> can arrange matching dual channel ddr400 sticks in [1,3], [2,3] or
> [1,2,3].  I've never seen matched sticks in threes...
>
> It says you can use single-channel ddr400 one stick in any one of the
> slots.  I have tried this, with three different sticks of ddr400, still
> can not get a successful boot.
>
> Any suggestions as to what this might be would be greatly appreciated.
> Bad mb or memory I guess, but I don't even want to consider swapping the
> board out.  I've got other ddr400 memory, but it's not 'paired.'  I've
> tried it as well, but no luck.  I've gotten as far as actually getting
> into the install when SuSE was loading the drive, but that suddenly
> rebooted as well.
>
> I guess I mostly suspect the mb, but what a pita to have to replace this
> thing now. :(

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Sergio Chaves
Edi and IT Support
Turbo Logistics, Inc.
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