On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Michael Hennebry wrote:
The computer is a DakTEch Freedom 4 P4 DDR System. The system board is a D865GBFL w/LAN,audio & video Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800FSB I got it in 2006.
<snip> It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to replace my m/b of the same vintage at home.)
Interesting thought: if you go into the BIOS, there's no system event log, is there? That's normally a server thing, but who knows....
I've never seen anything there that looked like any kind of a log.
I can't imagine how you killed a video card by installing a hard drive.
I suppose static.
Next question: is the system in a room with HVAC? Have you tried opening it up, and vacuuming dust out of the power supply and anywhere else (like the video card)?
No and no. It's in my house in a bedroom I use for an office. Residential AC through a power strip/surge protector.
I suppose I could try dust-busting. Might be able to do it without zapping anything.
I remember seeing a picture online a few years ago, where someone cut open a power supply, and found a lizard, too large to get out....
The five year half life-someone mentioned is scary.
I'm going to be off-line for a while. Duty calls.