#030 board continued
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GVP tech, As suggested, I tried the 030 board in another A2000. It
booted up OK. Curious, I put it back in the original machine, also
worked fine…… for about an hour until all I got was a blank,dark
screen. I reinstalled it in machine #2 and it has been running all
night. If it continues to be OK (I am still skeptical because the
problem has been intermittent for a few weeks) I guess it's something
with the computer, or something about the combination of the computer
and the board. Any guesses as to what the problem might be. The
computer seems to function just fine without the 030 board installed.
[DThanks, Gary
I/O would be my first check. Especially since the board started
working again in machine #1 for a time. I'd swap and/or replace my
8520 chips. After that I'd look at power. Remove ALL of the other
boards in the system and see if the failures continue. It would also
be advised to purchase some contact spray from your local electronics
store and clean out the motherboard, if this has not been done
recently. It only takes one sliver of metal to short out a section
and create all sorts of wierd problems.
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out. With the contact spray, should
I just hit the entire motherboard, or be much more discriminate? Regards, Gary
Gary, What has the temperature been in your studio? I started having
failures where the HD locked even when no activity was happening. I
had to move a card that was next to the hardcard style mounted HD on
the GVP board, remove the backpanel insert next to it and put an
airconditioner in the suite to keep the ambient room temp below 80 F
to avoid the failures. Your symptoms sound thermal in nature.
Basically the test you can use is to run without the cover and
possibley with an additional small fan on a desktop top move air over
the open case (set it a few feet away on medium or low setting). Then
there is the fail test (that I don't recommend) to take the case off
when the machine is cold, heat the board real good with a hair
drier/heat gun then try to boot.
wmc – via Autopilot!
DON'T PUT A HAIR DRYER ON YOUR COMPUTER!
Do the exact oposite. Get a can of freeze-spray from an electronics
store and spray it on components (one at a time) to cool them. The
last thing you sprayed before it started working was the cause of the
problem. Don't spray HDs.