Re: crash during boot-up

Although the GX150 did not achieve the dubious reputation for blown capacitors
like the later GX270s and other brands of el cheapo P3 boards, it's worth
examining the flaky boards for damaged capacitors.

Heat is another possibility. Are they clean inside? Do the cooling fans all
work effortlessly and quietly? ... Ben Myers

On 17 Nov 2005 05:45:13 -0800, lukehendricks@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a network of about 50 optiplex gx150's, all of which have been
>working well for a couple of years. They have stripped down setups-
>most just have bare-bones win2k installed. Lately lots of them have
>started to fail. First, they start randomly rebooting after running
>for a while, then they degenerate until they can't finish loading
>windows before they suddenly reboot. I ordered a bunch of new power
>supplies, and that fixed about half of my broken ones. Now I am having
>trouble diagnosing the problem on the rest of them. I am swapping in a
>known-good hard drive, RAM, and power supply- just about every other
>component in these computers is integrated on the motherboard.
>
>They go through bios just fine, they go through the black 'starting
>windows' screen and either crash as that progress bar finishes up OR
>they crash about midway through the white 'windows 2000 professional'
>screen. They crash instantly, there is no error message whatsoever. I
>get the same results in safe mode and vga mode.
>
>Can anyone suggest anything else to try? I am at my wit's end. It may
>be worth mentioning that the computers are in a harsh tropical climate-
>it is hot and humid when they are not air conditioned.
>
>thanks for even reading this, and many more thanks if you can offer any
>help,
>
>Luke
>

.

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