[Gllug] Mysterious reboots

[Julian Somers]

On 4 Apr 2006, at 12:53, will wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I hope someone here has some idea of what the problem with my  
> computer is, I have no idea.
>
> I have a new machine at work (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+,  
> 2Gb dual channel memory).  It was working fine for a few weeks but  
> now I have a really big problem.  Seemingly at random the machine  
> hangs for about 10 seconds (frozen display) then reboots (not a  
> graceful reboot, just back to the BIOS).  Sometimes it goes for  
> hours without this happening (it stayed up all last weekend), and  
> sometimes it will reboot frequently (10 times yesterday).
> <snip>

I had similar problem with a server last week. It also started  
happening right after I put a new hard disk in. It would restart at  
random times. I had the case open to check the fans, when it did one  
of these restarts, and noticed a sound exactly like a light tap on a  
glass with a pen. I left it running on my desk with the speaker  
disconnected and heard it a few more times during the day. I assumed  
this was a sound a motherboard was not supposed to make (perhaps a  
capacitor?) and replaced the board, thinking I had damaged it in some  
way squeezing the hard disk into a tight fit.

It was a VIA MS-6738.

(Not that this obscure little story helps you in any way with your  
problem, but there it is!)

Julian

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