Treason
06-24-05, 02:06 AM
During their i845/i865 era, Intel produced motherboards that didn't allow any tweaking. In fact, they were built for rock-solid stability. Well, now I know firsthand.
My Uncle has a P4 2.4B CPU and Intel D865GBF motherboard. His vintage house experienced a massive power surge thanks to some appliance-happy renters downstairs. Unfortunately his computer was on at the time, so bam! Circuit breaker trips and instant power failure.
He expected the computer to be completely fried because the stench of burning electronics soon filled the air.
The power surge caused the bios to reset and changed the [hard drive] option in the boot sequence menu to [none].
After the Intel splash screen comes up, the Windows XP screen comes up. Sometimes it takes 1 second, sometimes it passes and goes to the log-on screen, but in every instance the hard drive powers down and powers back up, causing a cold boot. After letting it sit for 24 hours, the computer boots normally and I can run whatever program I wish. But maybe 5 minutes in, the same problem resurfaces, and I get endless cold reboots. I can access bios menu and stay there, letting the computer sit idle with no reboots.
Surprisingly, turns out only the 512 mb ram blew. I swapped power supplies, hard drives, used safe mode, used windows XP boot CD. Until I swapped ram.
The poor sods downstairs lost an Athlon64 3500+ CPU and a Neo2-plat-fir-whatever-its-called motherboard.
So props to Intel for building rock solid motherboards.
My Uncle has a P4 2.4B CPU and Intel D865GBF motherboard. His vintage house experienced a massive power surge thanks to some appliance-happy renters downstairs. Unfortunately his computer was on at the time, so bam! Circuit breaker trips and instant power failure.
He expected the computer to be completely fried because the stench of burning electronics soon filled the air.
The power surge caused the bios to reset and changed the [hard drive] option in the boot sequence menu to [none].
After the Intel splash screen comes up, the Windows XP screen comes up. Sometimes it takes 1 second, sometimes it passes and goes to the log-on screen, but in every instance the hard drive powers down and powers back up, causing a cold boot. After letting it sit for 24 hours, the computer boots normally and I can run whatever program I wish. But maybe 5 minutes in, the same problem resurfaces, and I get endless cold reboots. I can access bios menu and stay there, letting the computer sit idle with no reboots.
Surprisingly, turns out only the 512 mb ram blew. I swapped power supplies, hard drives, used safe mode, used windows XP boot CD. Until I swapped ram.
The poor sods downstairs lost an Athlon64 3500+ CPU and a Neo2-plat-fir-whatever-its-called motherboard.
So props to Intel for building rock solid motherboards.