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Hi guys. I need some help!
Basically I posted a while ago that my server would stop rsponding after a couple of days of running. When I connected a monitor to it I would basically find that it had rebooted and is stuck at at the "finding hard drives..." screen in the POST and would not budge. The only remedy would be two power off the computer and then power it back on and all would work for another couple of days.
I thought that perhaps it was an old motherboard that I was using and perhaps it was the ide controller on it. (I'm also using a promise IDE controller but I disconnected it to see if that was causing the problem and the server still stopped responding). So I got myself a new motherboard, and a video card (it was integrated on the previous one).
Well I plugged everything back together and it worked much faste rwith the new motherboard for some reason. Files where getting transferred much faster now so I thought all is well. Well it has been 5 days since I hooked it up again with the new motherboard an the server stopped responding!!! Welp! I just wasted another $100 into an old server computer. So what could it be now? My ide cables maybe? I think I went over the suggested limit by a couple of inches for an ide cable (I bought round ones).
The proc. is a sempron 2400, Epox mobo, 1 gig of RAM, and a Thermaltake TruePower 420W power supply. I first thought it was a memory problem so I also bout another 512 module so I have a gig now, and this server is becoming very expensive to maintain not to mention it is not working properly. I am starting to get very discouraged. IT is running windows 2003 server. Guys I would really appreciate some help here. I apologize for the long post, but I wanted to make sure I give you all the info possible. Thanks for your help in advance.
*EDIT* Guys I just connected the monitor to the server with the new mobo again and basically it doesn't get stuck at the post screen where it is searching for drives BUT it gets stuck at the "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." screen... What does this mean? It happnes when I connected the mobo at first but that was because I did not plug in the the right cables in the right IDE slots slots (Put the primary on the secondary on the mobo and replacing this fixed the problem). So hopefully this can help narrow down my problem? I am so stressed out over this now.
Basically I posted a while ago that my server would stop rsponding after a couple of days of running. When I connected a monitor to it I would basically find that it had rebooted and is stuck at at the "finding hard drives..." screen in the POST and would not budge. The only remedy would be two power off the computer and then power it back on and all would work for another couple of days.
I thought that perhaps it was an old motherboard that I was using and perhaps it was the ide controller on it. (I'm also using a promise IDE controller but I disconnected it to see if that was causing the problem and the server still stopped responding). So I got myself a new motherboard, and a video card (it was integrated on the previous one).
Well I plugged everything back together and it worked much faste rwith the new motherboard for some reason. Files where getting transferred much faster now so I thought all is well. Well it has been 5 days since I hooked it up again with the new motherboard an the server stopped responding!!! Welp! I just wasted another $100 into an old server computer. So what could it be now? My ide cables maybe? I think I went over the suggested limit by a couple of inches for an ide cable (I bought round ones).
The proc. is a sempron 2400, Epox mobo, 1 gig of RAM, and a Thermaltake TruePower 420W power supply. I first thought it was a memory problem so I also bout another 512 module so I have a gig now, and this server is becoming very expensive to maintain not to mention it is not working properly. I am starting to get very discouraged. IT is running windows 2003 server. Guys I would really appreciate some help here. I apologize for the long post, but I wanted to make sure I give you all the info possible. Thanks for your help in advance.
*EDIT* Guys I just connected the monitor to the server with the new mobo again and basically it doesn't get stuck at the post screen where it is searching for drives BUT it gets stuck at the "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." screen... What does this mean? It happnes when I connected the mobo at first but that was because I did not plug in the the right cables in the right IDE slots slots (Put the primary on the secondary on the mobo and replacing this fixed the problem). So hopefully this can help narrow down my problem? I am so stressed out over this now.