Re: Dell Dimension 2350 behaving oddly, loosing devices


<jonathan.ives@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a dimension 2350 which I have had for around 4 years. Disk
drives have been added and swapped when starting to fail, so now it has
an 80Gb and 200Gb maxtor drives. Machine is running XP SP2 full
updated. virus is AVG (updated) and both MS and Spybot anti virus (all
up to date and run daily).

It's been fine for a long time but lately odd things have been
happening. Afew times I have 'lost' the pointer from windows. Reboot
and it's back.

I have also had the CD-RW device vanish. also on a few occasions the
BIOS cannot find the boot device. In these cases, I took the side off .
disconnected the cables and reconnected . All fine afterward.

The system event logs show no red errors or even warnings. I have also
run Powermax on all the disks and a full surface san checkout OK.

I'm wondering if the motherboard is failing ? Is that possible ? Too
many make/break operations I guess could flex the board and cause a
joint to open perhaps ?

The final point I'd make is that the room temperature has been very hot
as the summer here is exceptional at the present. The machine is clean
from dust insoide (airduster blowout) and I run speedfan to check the
drive temps which are averageing 36 degrees.

any suggestions or similar experiences


many thanks



Could be something as simple as the CMOS battery w/regard to "lost drives".

Be nice if you had your resource CD so that you could run extended and full
diagnostics on the machine to see if it would produce any helpful errors.

Those diags can be downloaded from their website: www.support.dell.com .
Type in your service tag or select your model and then "drivers and
downloads" in the lower drop-down below the tag field.



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