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Alienraptor
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First of all, some background. Every night, I lock my computer via the CTRL ALT DEL menu (Win2K style, enabled via a Registry edit as I recall). Then I just leave it on overnight. I reboot every once in awhile. I have consistently done this for at least the last six to eight months.
My computer is 2+ years old, with a 2.4C P4 running at 2.63, 512MB of PC1066 RDRAM, and a GeForce4 Ti4600. Also, I have 2x 80 GB Seagate HDD in RAID 0.
Last Friday and Saturday nights (04 and 05 February, respectively), after locking my computer, it essentially froze at exactly midnight (in both cases, my "Session Closed" message from my mIRC logs is at 00:00:00). After Saturday night, my computer wasn't detecting my NIC (either that or it died). Fortunately, my motherboard (ASUS P4T533-C) has an onboard network connection, and I just switched the cable to that one. For the time being, I thought this would be fine and I would just figure out the problem later.
On Sunday night (06 February), I didn't use the CTRL ALT DEL lock, and instead left it idling at desktop while running a virus scan. It picked up nothing, so in the morning I locked it before leaving for a day of school. In the afternoon, it was fine. It was not locked during midnight.
On Monday (07 February), I did what I normally did again: I used the CTRL ALT DEL menu to lock my computer, and left it on. Tuesday morning, when I checked, there was no response to any input. I tried to do a hard reset, but nothing happened. I had to toggle the power supply to reboot, but then nothing came up (not even a POST). I could hear my optical drives spinning up, and I could hear my hard drives spinning up, but the HDD indicator didn't light up. The power indicator does, as does the green LED on the board itself.
I had to go to an orchestra retreat for the last two days, and just got back. I'm typing this on an old backup computer. At this point, I've confirmed it's not the hard drives themselves, since I tried to boot with an old pair of hard drives that used to be in the same RAID setup and got the same result. Bootable floppies and CDs don't seem to boot either. All fans spin, so in addition to all the drives appearing to function, everything would indicate that power is not a problem. I can't rule out the CPU or memory because I can't accurately check whether or not they are functioning when the computer doesn't even boot.
As far as the overclocking goes, my CPU never got significantly hot while idle (always around 30° - 35° C), and typically remained reasonable under 100% load (under 50° C).
I would consider this a hardware problem, especially seeing as how I don't any visible displays now, but the lockups all occured at exactly midnight. I'm pretty sure only software could cause a recurring error at the exact same time. With what little knowledge I have with troubleshooting hardware, I would say that most likely my motherboard is dead.
Any help is much appreciated.
My computer is 2+ years old, with a 2.4C P4 running at 2.63, 512MB of PC1066 RDRAM, and a GeForce4 Ti4600. Also, I have 2x 80 GB Seagate HDD in RAID 0.
Last Friday and Saturday nights (04 and 05 February, respectively), after locking my computer, it essentially froze at exactly midnight (in both cases, my "Session Closed" message from my mIRC logs is at 00:00:00). After Saturday night, my computer wasn't detecting my NIC (either that or it died). Fortunately, my motherboard (ASUS P4T533-C) has an onboard network connection, and I just switched the cable to that one. For the time being, I thought this would be fine and I would just figure out the problem later.
On Sunday night (06 February), I didn't use the CTRL ALT DEL lock, and instead left it idling at desktop while running a virus scan. It picked up nothing, so in the morning I locked it before leaving for a day of school. In the afternoon, it was fine. It was not locked during midnight.
On Monday (07 February), I did what I normally did again: I used the CTRL ALT DEL menu to lock my computer, and left it on. Tuesday morning, when I checked, there was no response to any input. I tried to do a hard reset, but nothing happened. I had to toggle the power supply to reboot, but then nothing came up (not even a POST). I could hear my optical drives spinning up, and I could hear my hard drives spinning up, but the HDD indicator didn't light up. The power indicator does, as does the green LED on the board itself.
I had to go to an orchestra retreat for the last two days, and just got back. I'm typing this on an old backup computer. At this point, I've confirmed it's not the hard drives themselves, since I tried to boot with an old pair of hard drives that used to be in the same RAID setup and got the same result. Bootable floppies and CDs don't seem to boot either. All fans spin, so in addition to all the drives appearing to function, everything would indicate that power is not a problem. I can't rule out the CPU or memory because I can't accurately check whether or not they are functioning when the computer doesn't even boot.
As far as the overclocking goes, my CPU never got significantly hot while idle (always around 30° - 35° C), and typically remained reasonable under 100% load (under 50° C).
I would consider this a hardware problem, especially seeing as how I don't any visible displays now, but the lockups all occured at exactly midnight. I'm pretty sure only software could cause a recurring error at the exact same time. With what little knowledge I have with troubleshooting hardware, I would say that most likely my motherboard is dead.
Any help is much appreciated.