IC7-G Lock up prob.

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• May 19, 2004

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My friend's IC7-G locks up on occasion. When it does this the whole comp freezes in its tracks and emits a high pitched squeel until it is rebooted. This usually happens under load. Also, I just updated the BIOS to 2.3. Any help in the matter would be greatly appreciated.

 

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• May 20, 2004

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I had a similar thing happen to me. Xp just locks up in its' tracks and you can hear a high pitch squeel comming from the drives. It turned out to be an older 15 gig WD hard drive I booted that started crapping out. It was my backup drive. After reformatting it, the problem went away. Check the drives first.

 

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• May 21, 2004

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The new Bios didn't help, and I just reformatted the drive and that didn't help either.

 

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• May 23, 2004

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You hate to think bad mobo without eliminating ram, psu, cpu, hdd, video card, etc. etc. Now the fun begins.
Good Luck

 

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• May 24, 2004

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I had a similar thing on my system. I have 5 120 GB Western Digital drives. 2 of them were in removable racks with a temp sensor. They were also stacked on top of each other.

When the display read 43C, they started sqeualing and wouldn;t stop.

I have now rearranged the racks, so there's an empty bay between them. No more squealing...

 

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Interesting, now that I think about it, the drives were stacked next to each other with no space between them. I really didn't think about the heat issue. Thanks for the info pvanosta