Re: P2B's - problems - deteriorating ?

My P2b-F occasionally(once every summer) lost keyboard and mouse
detection, the only thing that i do is reset the CMOS, wait 2 to 3 hour
and take out every componets and reset it. Then the mobo is good again.

Maybe you have bad power supply(if both of them are the same brand and
model, then it is possible that they fail in the same way and time. I
saw it last year that 2 aopen power supply( same model, same Date of
manfacture)died almost at the same time. and it turns out they have
couple of leaking capacitors.

- Bob - wrote:
Is there any known degradation of the P2B's over time ? I am running
three of these with the 1.4g slot-1 upgrades from Stratton. Two of the
systems have started to exhibit odd problems in the last two months.
Perhaps someone can suggest other tests to nail down these problems ?

One has started to hang hard for no apparent reason. Restart requires
a shut off with the master power switch. I tried cleaning the memory
edge connectors but it still hangs unpredictably.

The other started with trouble a few weeks later with hanging a few
times. Now it has advanced to rebooting spontaneously. One day it just
kept rebooting itself as it got into Windows. I took it all apart,
cleaned all edge connectors including the CPU slot, and put it back
together but it didn't help. It will boot but reboots immediately when
you enter the Windows password.

This two machines have different uptimes (the first one having a lot
more), memory of different types purchased far apart, and CPU/upgrades
purchased six months apart.

I do have some spare mobos and I will switch one in today to the
second machine, upgrade the BIOS for the 1.4, and try it. Any other
thoughts?

Thanks,

.

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