My "server" keeps having issues...... Powering Off randomly needing clear CMOS

[Adidas4275]

Okay so really it has been a long time since I have asked for help but this one is killing me.

I have a WHS that is in a Norco 4020 and it had an Antec 650 Earth Watt PSU in it and last week, after 6 months w/o issue, the PC died....

the power was still on to the hard drives and fans and motherboard lights but the it was not in a boot state. the power buttons were unresponsive and needed to have the plug pulled in order for it to turn off.


It would power on, but no boot, no diag lights nor boot sound. until the cmos was cleared.... then it would work..... I thought it was a bad PSU, well it was..... but after replacing the PSU and CPU I am still having issues.




Last week I added a new HDD (hot) with ACHI enabled. When it clicked into the drive backplane the PC shut off.....

Rebooted and all worked.... okay wierd.

Now today the PC was on..... but no OS, no Boot, no beep, no diag lights nothing.... cleared cmos rebooted and it worked.... for about 10 mins......


I cannot figure out what is causing this thing to be so unstable. no BSODs, just black screen. and then no rebooting until I clear cmos.



Things I have replaced:
PSU (working pull)
CPU (different model, working pull)
RAM (working pull)

Only things left....
motherboard, drives and wiring.



Specs are the following
CPU: e8400
Mobo: Foxconn ELA v2
PSU: Zalman 500w slient heatpipe PSU
Case: Norco 4020
Drives: 3 WD RE2 1TB, 2 WD 750gb Cavier 16mb, 1TB WD GP


(sorry for the long post.... just trying to clear my head of this....)

 

[sirmonkey1985]

im going with the motherboard dying.. being that it is a foxconn and all..

 

[Dangman]

My bet is on the mobo as well. Though that particular Foxconn was suppose to be good...

 

[Adidas4275]

yeah.... I am pissed!

I just rebuilt my WHS with this motherboard so that it could last for a long time.... 8 phase solid caps 3 PCIe 16x for Controller cards and now this!

I am buying all new parts.... going to RMA everything of the old build and then it will all be on the FS thread.

makes me mad.... and i was not planning on spending $300 this month on my damn WHS!!!!

GRRR


Just bought the following system:

GIGABYTE GA-MA785G-UD3H
bought this for the onboard video, Solid Caps and 2 16x PCIe slots

I also got a
AMD Phenom II X4 945
which is going in my gaming/encoding/editing rig and the X2 AII 250 in there is going into the server.

Then got a
OCZ ModXStream Pro OCZ700MXSP

I was looking at the Corsair but I really like modular and it was $30 cheaper before the rebate and after, if i get it, it will be $50 cheaper (there was a $10 coupon for it also) and it is more power!!!

all this will be here in 2 days!!! so it looks like saturday will be a busy day for me.


I am thankful that I have enough hard drive space to have proper backups of my data...... I HATE reinstalling WHS and inevitably I am going to have some issue with a reinstall and I am going to have to format all my storage pool drives and migrate my data.... I have never got a reinstall to work when i am changing major hardware components