- Jan 4, 2001
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The system has an 8RDA+, running stable at the same settings for maybe a month. The only problems it ever had were from the WinTV-PVR 350 card in it, which has pretty lousy drivers. It was working just fine yesterday when I went to bed. I went to work later, came home, and I find that the PC is still running, but both IDE lights (RAID array and onboard) are on, and the thing's frozen. Reset. Same thing. The board is doing the FF thing right away. I've already reset the CMOS. Four times so far. It's in the middle of the 5th - the battery's out, and the jumper's in the reset position. Maybe after 5 minutes I'll try it again. Insert key at boot does nothing. Reseating RAM and videocard does nothing. I guess the next thing is to try it out of the box - an unattractive prospect, because there's so many components in the system, so it's a very lengthy project that can only be finished in a weekend at one "sitting," when I have time.
So, the question I guess - anyone else ever have a system just decide to flip over dead (or just feign it) like this? What'd you do about it?
Edit: More weirdness - the hard drives will NOT power on as long as the motherboard has power. I even tried this with two separate power supplies. One for the motherboard, one for the rest of the system. Turn on hard drives - they go fine. Turn on motherboard - hard drives shut down.
Then,
Turn on motherboard first, then try hard drives - no power up. At this point the only link between the two is the common ground of the surge strip, and the IDE cables. They're next to go in this strange problem.
Edit#2: Very strange. As soon as an IDE device is connected to the motherboard with an IDE cable, it will not power up, whether it be a hard drive or a DVD-RW drive. And I mean, won't power up - the DVD drive won't even open/close the tray as long as the IDE cable is connected; the LED doesn't blink either.
Also strange: The hard drives connected to the PCI-RAID card exhibit this same behavior.
So, the question I guess - anyone else ever have a system just decide to flip over dead (or just feign it) like this? What'd you do about it?
Edit: More weirdness - the hard drives will NOT power on as long as the motherboard has power. I even tried this with two separate power supplies. One for the motherboard, one for the rest of the system. Turn on hard drives - they go fine. Turn on motherboard - hard drives shut down.
Then,
Turn on motherboard first, then try hard drives - no power up. At this point the only link between the two is the common ground of the surge strip, and the IDE cables. They're next to go in this strange problem.
Edit#2: Very strange. As soon as an IDE device is connected to the motherboard with an IDE cable, it will not power up, whether it be a hard drive or a DVD-RW drive. And I mean, won't power up - the DVD drive won't even open/close the tray as long as the IDE cable is connected; the LED doesn't blink either.
Also strange: The hard drives connected to the PCI-RAID card exhibit this same behavior.