I would really suspect overheating of the Celeron! You also need to check
with Award just what exactly does 4 sec beeps mean as an error code. Do you
have a temperature sensor installed which in bios is set for too low warning
or cpu shutdown?
Carl Pickering
-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Boston <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, 16 April 2000 3:03
Subject: [PCBUILD] Intermittent failures
>I need to find the cause of a problem...
>
> I just put together a new system:
>
>Biostar 6bba motherboard with an Award bios
>128MB memory, Celeron 500 with slot 1 adapter, ATX case with
>250wt PS, ATI expert 98, Western Digital 10G hard drive, CD rom
>and HP CD Writer plus, Sound Blaster 128, internal 4 port USB
>hub, 3com NIC, and an extra parallel port card.
>
> It ran fine while I was installing the software, and setting the
>system up, and before delivery it ran for long periods of time
>with the screen saver going. I delivered it at noon the other
>day, and the customer used it off and on all day (he uses the
>internet to keep track of his stocks) until 10pm when the screen
>went blank and it began beeping continuous 4 second beeps until
>the power was turned off. Turning it back on resulted in the same
>behavior... blank screen & long beeps.
> Since then, I have found that I can run the computer for about 2
>hours (if I have let it rest (to cool off??) for several hours
>first) before this happens.
> I put in a new video card, but it did not help.
> I was thinking heat, but when the computer has just begun to
>beep I turn it off, and the heat sink and video card feel warm,
>but not as hot as I have seen on other computers that were
>working fine. The outside of the power supply near the fan seems
>warm, while on my computer that runs 24/7 it is actually cool to
>the touch. Could I be overloading the 250wt power supply with so
>many things in the computer? The USB hub takes the same power
>lead as a floppy drive, I have two CD drives, hard drive, and I
>have never put in a modem, NIC and Parallel port card in the same
>computer before.
>
> I'm just going to start removing things and running the
>computer, but I would greatly appreciate any suggestions as to
>what may or may not be causing this.
>
>
>
> Elizabeth Boston
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>
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