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My server recently needed it's motherboard replaced, It was an intel 875p fbm 1.5 (full name escapes me right now) board. Newegg replaced it with an ABIT "IC7-G MAXII ADVANCE" after an rma.
A few months later the hard drive started to click. An old maxtor from 2000 that finnaly died, So I replaced it. I installed windows xp and the boot times took forever and the one or two times it made it into xp it just lagged and would never open anything the mouse was movable, but nothing seemed to open. So I re-installed it and had the same problem. Once more I tried it with another cd and the same thing occured. Next I tried replacing the dvd-drive and trying a third copy of xp. Still had problems.
Then I began giving it the full run through. I mem tested it, checked out. Tried a working pci-ide controller to test if the onboard ide controller was bad. I replaced the hard drive with a sata one and it started experiencing copy problems arbiatf or some font file it choked at the first time, the second time it made it through the install and had problem locating some random system file. I replaced the power supply next with a antec neopower 480. Stripped it down to just a 9600xt. I've done everything I can think of.
What I suspected was overheating but it's running at 42-45c in the abit bios (If I remember abit boards report heat higher then the actual setting.. ) Perhaps the cmos battery ?
I've ran out of ideas and have already asked 2 or 3 equally qualified friends who are boggled by it and suggested everything I already tried. So what else could it be ?
Thanks.
A few months later the hard drive started to click. An old maxtor from 2000 that finnaly died, So I replaced it. I installed windows xp and the boot times took forever and the one or two times it made it into xp it just lagged and would never open anything the mouse was movable, but nothing seemed to open. So I re-installed it and had the same problem. Once more I tried it with another cd and the same thing occured. Next I tried replacing the dvd-drive and trying a third copy of xp. Still had problems.
Then I began giving it the full run through. I mem tested it, checked out. Tried a working pci-ide controller to test if the onboard ide controller was bad. I replaced the hard drive with a sata one and it started experiencing copy problems arbiatf or some font file it choked at the first time, the second time it made it through the install and had problem locating some random system file. I replaced the power supply next with a antec neopower 480. Stripped it down to just a 9600xt. I've done everything I can think of.
What I suspected was overheating but it's running at 42-45c in the abit bios (If I remember abit boards report heat higher then the actual setting.. ) Perhaps the cmos battery ?
I've ran out of ideas and have already asked 2 or 3 equally qualified friends who are boggled by it and suggested everything I already tried. So what else could it be ?
Thanks.