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  1. April 30th, 2003, 08:52 AM #31
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    Relatives ... shudder ....

    They don't even pay well nor have they any idea what the work is worth... let's not go there
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    I know I am chiming in a little late on this one but I just read it and I had very similar problems with a Slot A Athlon 500MHz (when they 1st came out... yeah baby!!!)

    Anywho, I started noticing hangup problems and things like that so I first ran Sandra diagnostics and come to find out, it showed that my Slot A Athlon had no L2 Cache at all.

    Well of course we know this not to be true so I got in a 750MHz Thunderbird Slot A (yes they make them with the on die 256kb L2 Cache) and viola' problem solved.

    Thankfully I was using an AMD board and it was able to recognize and handle the T-Bird.
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  4. May 1st, 2003, 07:52 AM #34
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    Well here's what happens when the screen goes Blank, you can hear an audible change in the computer, like it drops down a pitch, like you switched from high to low, now I have swapped out the PSU and that doesn't change things, can a Bad video card cause that too?
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  5. May 1st, 2003, 08:29 AM #35
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    that's really weird. It sure sounds like a power sag, but you swapped out PSU so you kinda already covered that.

    Hard drive? have you run it through the manufactures diagnostic test suite?
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  6. May 1st, 2003, 08:49 AM #36
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    Originally posted by pochrist1
    Well here's what happens when the screen goes Blank, you can hear an audible change in the computer, like it drops down a pitch, like you switched from high to low, now I have swapped out the PSU and that doesn't change things, can a Bad video card cause that too?
    Umm sounds like powermanagement settings ....
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  7. May 1st, 2003, 09:35 AM #37
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    Hard drive? have you run it through the manufactures diagnostic test suite?
    Yea, and of caurse it Passed. But prior to resetting the BIOS it pulled the Blank-screen-Power Dip during 3 attempted DOS Formats



    Umm sounds like powermanagement settings ...
    Now Do you mean BIOS Power managment or Windows?
    I leave the Bios settings as default, But when this "re-started" in Windows 2 days ago I set all Windows Power Managment settings to NEVER. It happens during activity. Like when I was installing a Patch I downloaded.
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  8. May 1st, 2003, 09:45 AM #38
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    Originally posted by pochrist1
    Yea, and of caurse it Passed. But prior to resetting the BIOS it pulled the Blank-screen-Power Dip during 3 attempted DOS Formats

    do you have a known good you can swap in? I've had Bad drives pass the diags but still be bad. I'd swap a good drive in and see if the behavior repeats or goes away.
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  9. May 6th, 2003, 03:22 PM #39
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    We sold a small number of the SLOT A thunderbird cpus, and had similar issues. Also had a problem with overheating to the point of starting fires in the pcs. We ended up recalling all these that we sold (only took us 3 weeks to find this out) and replaced them for customers.

    AMD had directed us to recall them, and we got 100% compensation for them.
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