Config: Windows 2K/SP2 on 1GHz AMD Athlon in Asus A7V133 mobo, 40GB IBM HD system and 30GB Maxtor HD
on primary IDE, CD-RW and CD on secondary IDE. Fan on CPU, fan for power supply, fan for case, all working.
Various and sundry problems from the git-go (none of which were apparent when running WinNT4/SP5).
Installed most if not all patches and updates to the system that I could find. Now a new problem has developed.
Computer will work fine for an hour or so, then begin to lock up/hang up. Print jobs will hang for several
minutes then resume. Attempts to save files will hang indefinitely when trying to access hard drive.
If you shut down when it first "acts up", chances are that upon cold-booting, everything will be fine for a while.
If you wait too long to "react", something (hard disk or controller ?) starts rhythmically clicking "click click"
every few seconds. You are doomed and your attempts at graceful system shutdown are usually futile.
Upon re-booting, it may, or may not, recognize existence of boot disk hard drive (prior to Win2K start-up).
Typically spawns error message "do the three-fingered salute to re-boot". Sometimes it will fail to see the
other hard disk instead.
Sometimes during a session, system will spawn error (Disk or ATAPI), asking why you were so crass as to attempt
removing an installed hard drive (which of course you didn't actually try to do). And/or system will notify
you that certain write procedures failed.
The problem is intermittent in the sense that, although it will certainly occur if you use the computer long enough,
whether or not you can recover quickly, or the method that "works" to effect recovery, is variable. Sometimes
a cold-boot works, sometimes a reset, sometimes you have to re-boot multiple times beofre it finally begins working.
Any ideas?
--
Rick K aka Nagudizy
Allah hoo
on primary IDE, CD-RW and CD on secondary IDE. Fan on CPU, fan for power supply, fan for case, all working.
Various and sundry problems from the git-go (none of which were apparent when running WinNT4/SP5).
Installed most if not all patches and updates to the system that I could find. Now a new problem has developed.
Computer will work fine for an hour or so, then begin to lock up/hang up. Print jobs will hang for several
minutes then resume. Attempts to save files will hang indefinitely when trying to access hard drive.
If you shut down when it first "acts up", chances are that upon cold-booting, everything will be fine for a while.
If you wait too long to "react", something (hard disk or controller ?) starts rhythmically clicking "click click"
every few seconds. You are doomed and your attempts at graceful system shutdown are usually futile.
Upon re-booting, it may, or may not, recognize existence of boot disk hard drive (prior to Win2K start-up).
Typically spawns error message "do the three-fingered salute to re-boot". Sometimes it will fail to see the
other hard disk instead.
Sometimes during a session, system will spawn error (Disk or ATAPI), asking why you were so crass as to attempt
removing an installed hard drive (which of course you didn't actually try to do). And/or system will notify
you that certain write procedures failed.
The problem is intermittent in the sense that, although it will certainly occur if you use the computer long enough,
whether or not you can recover quickly, or the method that "works" to effect recovery, is variable. Sometimes
a cold-boot works, sometimes a reset, sometimes you have to re-boot multiple times beofre it finally begins working.
Any ideas?
--
Rick K aka Nagudizy
Allah hoo
