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- 21st November 2009 at 14:19 #50106
Just in case anyone is interested……
UPDATE – since sending the above I have
– located another dc5750 at work, and installed my Samsung 1TB SAT drive with crashing copy of W2K8. It ran fine for 5 hours with no signs of instability
– borrowed the RAM (2x Kingston 2GB DIMMS) form the work PC and installed them in the home machine – crashed after 5 mins
– tried resetting the dc5750 BIOS back to full default config – crashed as I logged in to W2K8
– tried running with an old PS/2-style mouse and keyboard, no USB devices attached at all – crashed after 3 mins
So that’s everything I can think of, I am down to faulty motherboard or CPU hardware, there’s nothing else to try short of exorcism
I’m told this machine has a 3-year warranty, so in the absence of any miracle cures, I’m looking for a replacement CPU / m/b assembly.
Regards
Chris
- 21st November 2009 at 14:19 #59925
Anonymous
Just in case anyone is interested……
UPDATE – since sending the above I have
– located another dc5750 at work, and installed my Samsung 1TB SAT drive with crashing copy of W2K8. It ran fine for 5 hours with no signs of instability
– borrowed the RAM (2x Kingston 2GB DIMMS) form the work PC and installed them in the home machine – crashed after 5 mins
– tried resetting the dc5750 BIOS back to full default config – crashed as I logged in to W2K8
– tried running with an old PS/2-style mouse and keyboard, no USB devices attached at all – crashed after 3 mins
So that’s everything I can think of, I am down to faulty motherboard or CPU hardware, there’s nothing else to try short of exorcism
I’m told this machine has a 3-year warranty, so in the absence of any miracle cures, I’m looking for a replacement CPU / m/b assembly.
Regards
Chris
- 5th April 2010 at 20:18 #50107
Er…. just stumbled across this thread, which I should have updated about three months ago…
I solved the problem eventually by substitution – after a considerable struggle and two sets of HP official build disks, got HP warranty support to agree to a motherboard swap. To my amazement it made no difference.
So I took the machine to work and borrowed a CPU from another dc5750, and that fixed it, at which point HP had to agree to a warranty on that as well.
So some subtle problem with the CPU. Now running W2K8 R2 just fine.
Regards Chris
- 5th April 2010 at 20:18 #59926
Anonymous
Er…. just stumbled across this thread, which I should have updated about three months ago…
I solved the problem eventually by substitution – after a considerable struggle and two sets of HP official build disks, got HP warranty support to agree to a motherboard swap. To my amazement it made no difference.
So I took the machine to work and borrowed a CPU from another dc5750, and that fixed it, at which point HP had to agree to a warranty on that as well.
So some subtle problem with the CPU. Now running W2K8 R2 just fine.
Regards Chris
- 6th April 2010 at 19:30 #50108
@CreosoteChris wrote:
Er…. just stumbled across this thread, which I should have updated about three months ago…
Thanks for posting your solution! This might also be useful to others. 🙂
- 6th April 2010 at 19:30 #59927
Anonymous
@CreosoteChris wrote:
Er…. just stumbled across this thread, which I should have updated about three months ago…
Thanks for posting your solution! This might also be useful to others. 🙂
- 6th April 2010 at 19:44 #50109
@CreosoteChris wrote:
– borrowed the RAM (2x Kingston 2GB DIMMS) form the work PC and installed them in the home machine
😆
- 6th April 2010 at 19:44 #59928
Anonymous
@CreosoteChris wrote:
– borrowed the RAM (2x Kingston 2GB DIMMS) form the work PC and installed them in the home machine
😆
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