SP13000 rebooting

AllThingsEnd · 08-31-2006, 03:02 AM

ok i got my SP13000 all connected and everything, i go to boot it up and it gets to the windows boot screen for a split second and then the system reboots. ive replaced the ram, new hdd, new PSU. even when i try to reinstall windows it gets to the part where its about to install and then restarts. wtf is going on?

v8 scimitar · 08-31-2006, 07:30 AM

Boot it off a dos boot disk and see if it happens. If it is stable in dos then you can run some utilities that will load the system and do logs. If it is still stable doing that then there might be something wrong with your install disk. Just to keep the Linux guys happy you could do it in that just as well if you can find any. If it fails doing the tests a look through the logs should tell you what happened. You have probably done this already but make sure the CPU fan is working properly as your getting about as far as I would expect with no fan. I had the same thing on my SP13000 a couple of months ago, turns out it didn't like the ram I was using. I put Kingston in and its been rock solid ever since.

AllThingsEnd · 08-31-2006, 08:00 AM

ok so strange thing happened. on a hunch i took the cmos battery out and unplugged it. left it out for a little while the put the battery back in a plugged it back up. works like a champ. hmm i guess the previous owner had something in the bios that was causing it to reboot. strange.....

v8 scimitar · 08-31-2006, 03:22 PM

Glad to hear you got it working.