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Armada M700 (Pentium II-366, 10GB) Random Crashes
Hi,
I would be grateful for any ideas with a strange problem with my Compaq Armada M700. The computer suddenly crashed in Windows 2000 which had been running fine for ages. After a clean format and reinstall I found it was still very unstable. Just in case it was a dodgy cd, I tried formatting again and loading Windows 98SE clean. Again still unstable. So next tried XP Pro which loaded ok, but again was erratic and unstable. Went into BIOS screens and it even froze on that! The cooling fan appears to be working ok so it is unlikely to be that although the computer always has got warm around the cpu/memory module area. Assuming the problems being due to RAM and/or hard drive, I have so far tried the following. 1. Replaced the original IBM 6gb hard drive with the IBM 10gb which was working fine in my Dell. Have run extensive diagnostics on this drive which passes every time and have even run the Hitachi/IBM feature tool and slowed the drive to UDMA 2 [ATA33]from the default UDMA 4 [ATA66] (which has made it slower but a bit more stable) 2. Replaced the 2x32MB memory modules with 2x64MB modules. The other RAM is onboard. Total RAM 160MB now. Have also run extensive diagnostics on this RAM which passes every time. 3. Flashed the BIOS to latest version. 4. Run compaq diagnostics and found that it failed on parallel port, so disabled parallel port (and also serial port just in case) Have now tried all I can think of and am losing sanity. I hope it is not the main board inside as this would be sad as the rest of the computer is fine (screen, cd, fdd etc.) Has anyone had a similar problem and do you have a solution? Many thanks in advance! |
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