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    • #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

    • #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

      • #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

      • #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

        • #50108
          Arris
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            @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. 🙂

          • #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. 🙂

            • #50109

              @CreosoteChris wrote:

              – borrowed the RAM (2x Kingston 2GB DIMMS) form the work PC and installed them in the home machine

              😆

            • #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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