IBM PC (2257-82U)
128 MB RAM
1.0 GHz
sound, video, nic on board
modem PCI card
machine is as is from factory ~ 2 years ago
recently has been rebooting at random with increasing frequency
thought this could be RAM but substituted for another chip and problems were the same... repartitioned and formatted hard drive and it hangs during device detection phase of XP install... now is rebooting before the OS loads
not sure if this is overheating problem or not, seemed to be the prime suspect but I shut it down for several hours then started it up with the case off and a fan blowing a full throttle and it still couldn't get past the OS
booted it with a DOS boot disk and let it idle for some hours and it was fine
any ideas?
128 MB RAM
1.0 GHz
sound, video, nic on board
modem PCI card
machine is as is from factory ~ 2 years ago
recently has been rebooting at random with increasing frequency
thought this could be RAM but substituted for another chip and problems were the same... repartitioned and formatted hard drive and it hangs during device detection phase of XP install... now is rebooting before the OS loads
not sure if this is overheating problem or not, seemed to be the prime suspect but I shut it down for several hours then started it up with the case off and a fan blowing a full throttle and it still couldn't get past the OS
booted it with a DOS boot disk and let it idle for some hours and it was fine
any ideas?