The mind boggles.....................

griobhta · 01-14-2002, 05:31 PM

Hello there,

I just finally got round to putting the bag of goodies that I bought earlier last week into my pc. New HSF, rounded cable, filter, some of that wrap to tidy up all of those cables, as well as some of that tape to unlock my duron.

Well got everything together, removed more dirt then I want to think about from the case. Moved the HDD from the Highpoint-controller to the via ide channels, planning on installing linux and this is the easiest way.

Boot up and all's not well. Running XP and found that cusor was sticking and the machine seemed to be stalling. Booted into safe mode and all seemed fine. Messed around a bit but as the install was misbehaving I though I would reinstall. Got as far as starting for the first time and my speakers, attached to a SB Live, started singing like a pc speaker

and every the blasted thing locked up. Finaly through trial and error I found that by setting the HDD, IBM Deskstar GXP75, to cable select on its own channel with the DVD and CDRW on the other allowed me to get things working as long as I removed the sound card.

Tried bios settings, using ATA33 cables instead of 66/100, Put everything back to where it was before I started.

Refreshed the ESCD no joy. Reinstalled again this time tried ME, as its a little quicker. Still no joy.

Fixed it like this. Moved SB Live to a new slot and installed all hunky dory. Now for the bit that I don't get. I moved it back to the offending slot and it worked no problem.

Is there any logic to this?? Sounds a bit to much like Stand on one leg turn around clockwise three times and then push the on button

Two long days and this is how I fixed it. I would nearly rather it to be broken rather than not understand what went right.

Griobhta

SPEEDO · 01-14-2002, 06:09 PM

The computer gods smiled down upon you Lad!

Do you have plug and pray OS installed enabled in the bios?

SPEEDO

griobhta · 01-14-2002, 06:16 PM

Hey Speedo,

Quote:

Do you have plug and pray OS installed enabled in the bios?

No I tend to leave that switched off. Linux doesn't seem to be too fond of it.

if they were smiling I think it was more of a smirk. I seem to have the touch. Not with other peoples computers just with my own.

Griobhta

SPEEDO · 01-14-2002, 06:51 PM

Could have been just a bad connection somewhere and all that jiggling around while swapping might have reconnected it again!

There are times these things will amaze you!
Then there are the DUH times, This appears to be the later!..

SPEEDO

griobhta · 01-14-2002, 06:54 PM

well I took the blasted thing in and out of its origional slot enough times before I moved it. Somewhere someone has a voodoo doll of my pc

griobhta

FalcomPSX · 01-14-2002, 06:55 PM

there are two theories i'm aware of for repairing computers.
one is the 10% rule, meaning you must be 10% smarter then the computer you are working on, this works well for just about anything, from computers to cars.

the other, applies mostly to computers, that is when it works, and odesn't make sense, don't ask questions, just be glad it works. chances are, if you trouble shoot a problem that fixed itself, you'll end up resurfacing it again and it won't go away the second time...

the first rule is the best one, but once in a while, we are all stumpped as to what actually fixed a problem, it's happened to me several times and i just don't ask questions. i simply make sure it's fixed for good, then live and let live.

SPEEDO · 01-14-2002, 06:56 PM

Maybe you should call for an exorcism!

OOOOWWEEEEOOOOO

SPEEDO

Tomteriffic · 01-14-2002, 07:00 PM

I've had machines like that, twiddled and fussed over them 17 different ways, and then, all of a sudden, they worked.

What a drag, then you gotta break it so you can fix it again.