Re: Replacement Dimension 3200 motherboard (#3T237)
- From: "Bradley Walker" <bawalkerREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:57:46 GMT
It is definately a PC133 based system and if I had to use a stick or two of
DDR from another tower of mine for a customer, no big deal for me.
To answer your questions, the OS was the first thing I looked at. Actually
the first board that was inside of this tower was dead when I got it. I
replaced it with another 2300 motherboard which seemed to work just fine for
a while. The orginial OS was hosed up so I formatted first thing (after
saving data). Since then I have installed Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows
Server 2003 on this tower all clean installs when the reboots have happened.
Actually a few of the installs got trashed because the system would
sporatically reboot during the install process.
My initial conclusion was that it was either a bad powersupply, bad
replacement motherboard, or bad memory. I ruled out the memory after
running it through MemTestx86+ for over a day in another tower. I even
tested it in the 2300 with 0 errors reported. That has left me with
focusing on powersupply or motherboard. Just this morning I hooked up a
multimeter to check the DC voltage from the 5volt molex/IDE connector. I
was lucky enough to see the system reboot while this was plugged in. The
voltage remained at 5.0v~5.1v during the reboot. I was hoping that if it is
the powersupply, that it would have spiked or dropped in power indiciating
PSu problem.
When I plugged the system in last night, booted Windows 2000 (current OS) it
actually remained up all night and did not reboot at all until about 12
hours later this morning when I was there and watched it reboot. It would
actually cycle into some pretty serious rebooting patterns, rebooting itself
even before it completely finished loading Windows after the prior reboot.
That coupled along with the fact that it's only wanting to use 1 of 5
working sticks of Micron PC133 memory seems to have me lean towards it being
a mobo issue. However I do plan to borrow a P4 powersupply today and let it
run and see what happens. Unfortunately there is no way to initiate these
reboots, they just come and go at will.
Brad
Thanks for that, Ben. I thought also that the 2300 was a DDR machine, but
the OP is posting PC133.........which means RAM change if he goes with a
newer board, more than likely.
The power supply suggestion is a good one. I also want to know if the
poster actually wiped the drive after the new board was put in. (?) While
Windows should have almost no reaction to an identical replacement board,
it could be that the install had problems prior anyway or some were
created when the board died - dependent on the reason.
Stew
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