Flaky Duron system

[quinterro]

A customer repair I got last week was a Duron system that would beep twice when powered on and do nothing else. I ended up transferring their drives to a different case with a replacement motherboard and memory.

At first the board would only work out of the case. Eventually it decided it wanted to work, so I'm setting it up with Windows 2000.

Duron 850mhz

192MB RAM (had 128MB originally)

Jetway 830CF Socket A motherboard (SiS 730 chipset)

ATX case

300w power supply

I've added a CD-ROM drive, a USB2/FW400 card, a floppy drive, a 6.4GB hard disk and an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI card with 256MB RAM.

It still acts up once in a while, but otherwise appears to work OK.

 

[wood_e]

Say, could you get me a copy of win 2k??

 

[LCGuy]

Say, could you not talk about piracy in the forums?

 

[Christopher]

say does it matter since its not in production?

 

[krfkeith]

say, can we stop saying say? No, just kidding

 

[Mike Richardson]

say does it matter since its not in production?

The eternal argument.

2000 is still fairly recent. I don't think anybody would care if you pirated Windows 3.11 or Windows 95 or even the older NTs. But use "such avenues which are receptive to such things to acquire such things" - not the forums.

 

[wood_e]

fine...

 

[iMac600]

At first the board would only work out of the case. Eventually it decided it wanted to work, so I'm setting it up with Windows 2000.

Just wondering if maybe it was shorting up against the back panel, when the board touches the steel it bridges two points and causes abnormal operation. It happens sometimes. Could also be the screws into the chassis as well considering they press against the motherboard but this is a lot less likely as most good boards will have special contact points around each screw to assist with proper earthing and the like.

Could be anything, but good to hear you got it working anyway. Not bad a spec either, 850mhz is still a very capable and sufficient system.

 

[quinterro]

Well some good news and not so good news about this one. The owner of the booth I help out at called and said the replacement system I set up in exchange for the Duron system was dead. I brought it back home, moved the customer's stuff back to the Duron system and it is running OK so far.

After doing that I looked at the machine I took this out of and found out why it was not powering up. The two wires from the power switch were not on the right place on the motherboard.

As far as the Duron system, there was one post missing to mount the motherboard to the case. I took one off of another section of the case and replaced the missing standoff.

While I may not have a Duron now, I do have a P3-733 system. :-/