Felix Miata wrote:

> I think these are symtoms of a fatal CPU overheat or other CPU failure.
> 
> Maybe some troubleshooting help at http://motherboardrepair.com/ or
> http://tinyurl.com/gc7yt or http://tinyurl.com/f8of3 (both of latter
> Google Groups searches for your mobo model).

Hi Felix (& the others who replied),
I'm suspecting this is related to a CPU problem. I must now try to figure out 
what the real reason is:

1) Bad CPU
2) Bad MB
3) Bad PS (just replaced in December 2005)
4) Some combination of the above

I have 2 case fans (F & R), the fan on the PS and the CPU fan so my system was 
always noisy, But now that I have the cover off the computer I can hear pretty 
severe bearing rattle in the ACX cooling fan. Also, I can feel no rise in 
temperature from the CPU even after leaving the computer on for an hour. Hey I 
am an HP contract tech who deals with 99.9% new HP equipment but even I know, 
especially with an AMD Athlon, I should feel some heat from the heat sink or fan 
after only a minute. So for some reason it appears the CPU has zero power or is 
dead. Before it went totally dead it started crashing after being on 10 minutes, 
then 5 minutes, then 1 minute after entering the WPS. And this was after winter 
was over & my apartment temperature was rising. IOW, it got progressively worse 
as the heat went up.

Thanks for the troubleshooting links. I will try to explore them as time 
permits. For now I think I'm going to yank the Win2K HD from my ECS Duron system 
and install the 2 eCS drives. Then the real work starts. Any way I look at it, 
with only two PCI slots and no AGP slot, the cheap ECS Duron system will lack 
something. On my Athlon system I had a sound card, a TV card, a (AGP) video 
card, and a midi port. On the Duron it seems to be a choice of two of the above: 
video, sound, TV or midi. It lacks a midi port onboard plus heaven knows if 
onboard sound or video works with eCS. If I can get the onboard video working I 
can put a sound card & TV card in. If I get the onboard sound working then I can 
put a PCI video card and TV card in but I won't have my midi port. If I can't 
get either onboard thing working then I'll have to put in a video card & a sound 
card. I'd have midi but not the TV card. What I'd give for just one more slot!

My other choices for eCS are a Dell Celeron 700, an HP Celeron 450 or my test 
system with either a P3 450 or a P2 500. Lots of RAM though. I could increase 
any of them to 768M to 1 G of RAM now! Hmmm...decisions.

Thanks & sincerely,
WarpDavey
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