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System restart issues
Here are a couple other things to try with this rebooting problem. Check in your CMOS settings to see if you can disable on chip cache. If you can, disable it. Relax this is only temporary your system will run painfully slow, but see if you continue to crash and or reboot. If you don't you...- jbentley78
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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hard drive recovery
ReddLefty is correct. I use a bulk tape eraser to scramble hard drives that come back from our customers, and it does not affect the functionality of the drives. If your drives and clanking or clicking when you power up and do not stop that can be a very bad sign. At that point I generally grab...- jbentley78
- Post #6
- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Cmos password problem
I am not terribly familiar with the mainboard that is in this computer so I may be completely off base here. Some computers shorting the CMOS battery resets everything except the password. On these systems there is generally a jumper on the mainboard just to clear the password. The clear CMOS...- jbentley78
- Post #4
- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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slow hard disk spin up
I definately agree with backing up all critical data ASAP. I have seen this problem before on a homebrew system. We tested all the hardware and came up empty, but strangely enough the problem went away when we upgraded them from Win98 to WinXP. I believe it was an issue with the power managment...- jbentley78
- Post #5
- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
