Cab Crashes...What to do...What to do...

[bkenobi]

I just looked at the ram this evening and it looks like the two sticks are both KVR, but from different purchases. Basically, I don't know it's an issue, but they are not identical. I pulled both and stuck in another stick that I KNOW works and set it to play overnight. The first thing that sticks out is that one is labeled as 2.5v and the other as 2.6v. I have 2 sticks that I purchased at the same time and are identical ready to go in the cab, but 512mb should be enough to test MAME overnight anyway.

If it still crashes, I'll try the video card since it's also an easy swap. The PSU is a bit more difficult, but I can probably set one inside the cab and just disconnect the other one for testing. I'm hopeful this is a freaky memory incompatibility problem (but not overly optimistic).

Oh, and no cats or dogs (a couple ferrets, but they are caged). It's definitely a strange set of entries in the log, but I don't have any way to verify it actually happened...

[night]

what does it do when it crashes i mean does it freezes/reboot/blue screen ??

and what model are your motherboard ?

[bkenobi]

When it crashes, it hangs/freezes. The Mobo is nothing special (Soyo K7VME), but I'm not convinced it's a part of the problem. I suppose it could be one of the chipsets, but that will be a last thing to worry about. If swapping ram, video, PSU, and a good cleaning don't fix it, I'll probably be getting a new Mobo and maybe CPU. I can get a cheapo combo from Fry's for under $100 that should use the same ram.

It's not long enough to claim victory yet, but the cab was still running fine this morning. Of course, it was running fine before I left yesterday morning too, so...

[Hadoken]

When it crashes, it hangs/freezes. The Mobo is nothing special (Soyo K7VME), but I'm not convinced it's a part of the problem. I suppose it could be one of the chipsets, but that will be a last thing to worry about. If swapping ram, video, PSU, and a good cleaning don't fix it, I'll probably be getting a new Mobo and maybe CPU. I can get a cheapo combo from Fry's for under $100 that should use the same ram.

It's not long enough to claim victory yet, but the cab was still running fine this morning. Of course, it was running fine before I left yesterday morning too, so...

it could be your ati card i have a 9200 radeon that i had driver problems with. 3 beeps and then black screen the pc was on and working just nothing visable but when i turned it off and let it cool down it was if the problem never occured and would run pefectly for hours i noticed the problem in device manager went to the ati site and got new drivers and no problems since im not saying it is your graphics card and i dont want to throw another solution at you but its worth checking

[bkenobi]

I actually had a 9250 in there to start with and tossed it to the parts bin for that same reason. I found a really good price on x1300pro's and bought a couple. They seem really quick and stable. The 9250 was a fanless card, so I probably could have added a heat sink fan to it and been ok, but the cost of a fan wasn't worth it for the card and price of a new one (<$50 for a new faster card or ~$30 for the fan). I could have cobbled something together, but I was pretty sure the card was FUBAR anyway since it was a hand-me-down that was replaced due to problems.

I had the cab running yesterday since the previous evening, but we had a wind storm knock out power before I got home, so I haven't been able to tell if it crashed prior to the power failing. My wife said she played a fighting game prior to the power going out, though, so it sounds like the ram may have been the problem! I'll know more in ~2 hours when I check some logs.

[jthompson]

I actually had a 9250 in there to start with and tossed it to the parts bin for that same reason. I found a really good price on x1300pro's and bought a couple. They seem really quick and stable. The 9250 was a fanless card, so I probably could have added a heat sink fan to it and been ok, but the cost of a fan wasn't worth it for the card and price of a new one (<$50 for a new faster card or ~$30 for the fan). I could have cobbled something together, but I was pretty sure the card was FUBAR anyway since it was a hand-me-down that was replaced due to problems.

I had the cab running yesterday since the previous evening, but we had a wind storm knock out power before I got home, so I haven't been able to tell if it crashed prior to the power failing. My wife said she played a fighting game prior to the power going out, though, so it sounds like the ram may have been the problem! I'll know more in ~2 hours when I check some logs.

You lost power too huh? We lost our power over here in Bremerton around 5:00 pm and it came back on around 11:30. I'm curious to see if your ram was at fault or not.

Jay T

[bkenobi]

I ran the machine from this morning to about 6pm and NO PROBLEMS!!! I swapped ram to the matching stick to verify I won't have any problems with that one. If it's still running in the morning, I'll put both in and be pretty satisfied that the problem is fixed. I think the different voltages on the ram may have been it!

Yeah, we lost power here around 5pm as well and got it back ~9pm (our neighborhood is right next to the sub station, so we always get back up first ). Apparently, the power flashed at ~1am since my alarm didn't work but my wife's did. I was hoping neither one would make it through the night so I could sleep in