[dba-Tech] Operating System not found

Thanks, Bryan,
have now checked al the capacitors. man that are quite a lot!
but they look perfectly ok.
so at least that' ok.

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Carbonnell" <carbonnb at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Operating System not found


> On 10/15/07, Lembit Soobik <lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> wrote:
>> ok, now dont tell me computers have no soul or life of their own or an 
>> own
>> will ;)
>>
>> exchanged the power cables back, and it is working fine still.
>> so explain this:
>> - the PC works ok yesterday till afternoon
>> - then all of a sudden, it wont start (Operating system not found), 
>> checked
>> it with 3 different HDs that all work.
>> on all of these Acronis can see the disk and the directories on it.
>> this morning again the same.
>> - disconnect 1 pair of HDs and it works
>> - exchange power connections and reconnect the HDs - still works
>> - reexchange power connections, so its the same wiring and everything as
>> yesterday afternoon and this morning,
>> and the system still works fine. nothing is different from yesterday when 
>> it
>> didnt work.
>>
>> and now, how do I find the problem????
>
> My suggestion is to carefully check all the capacitors on the
> Motherboard to make sure there are no burst one.
>
> The Motherboard I just replaced was flakey. It would work then it
> wouldn't. I could boot windows, then I couldn't. It would run for
> hours then reboot after only a minute or two of use.
>
> Turns out the MoBo had 11 or 12 burst or bulging capacitors. I guess
> it took a power spike somewhere even though it was on UPS with power
> conditioning.
>
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