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ASL won't quit rebooting

I installed V4.0 on a P3 866 with 128MB and 10GB.
I previously ran V3 on it without any problems.
I did a clean install of V4 but now it won't boot properly.  Each time it comes up to the point where it says
'Filesystem check running - please standby', it reboots.
I reinstalled W2K on it, and that runs fine so I don't think it's a hardware problem.  I reinstalled V4, added an other 128MB but the results is always the same.  It just keeps on rebooting.  Also removing one of the 3 nics didn't help.
Any clues?

Frank

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0 bce over 21 years ago

have you done a memorycheck?
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0 frankske_ over 21 years ago in reply to bce

yup, memory is fine. I swapped memory with an other computer and still have the same behaviour.
Strangely, every now and than it boots up ok (maybe once in 20 times or so).
The pc works fine when I install W2K on it.
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0 Dennis Koslowski over 21 years ago

Please try an another disk drive - it sounds like bad HDD sectors for me...

Hope this helps
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Dennis
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0 frankske_ over 21 years ago in reply to Dennis Koslowski

ok, thx, I'll give it a try!
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0 Biffa over 21 years ago in reply to frankske_

I also had this on a Poweredge 650 (P3 800) I thought it was the HDD as well, but when I had it open I was looking at the entire system board and noticed the Heatsink was on at an angle! Whipped it off, cleaned it off and put it back on (the right way round this time!) and its been fine ever since.

This was how the machine was supplied and it had been working fine, but our server room hadn't ever been so crowded or hot before and I think it just pushed it over the edge.

One to check. Overheating, especially this time of year.
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