Help: Dead SCSI System

[Darren Harris]

I have a SCSI system that bgan giving me problems before it completely
went down a few months ago.

The beginning of the end began when the PC began crashing, and then
one day it just would not boot up completely. It swould only go so far
into the boot-up process and then freeze. But not always at the same
point during the boot up sequence. A boot disk was useless. When it
wouldn't even get far enough to show the ram count up, I gave up on
it.

I just turned it on for the first time since last year, and now I
don't even get a signal to the monitor. So I am wonderng what to do
next. Is there a high probablilty that the problem is the
battery(CR2032) on the motherboard, or a power supply problem? I
already tried using different ram to no avail. I assume that the
problem is not the "C" drive itself, because the system doesn't get
far enough for that to be the case. The system is as follows:

HARDWARE
--------
450Mhz Pentium 2
128mb Installed
BIOS Award Modular Ver. 4.51
Award Plug & Play BIOS ext. Ver 1.0A
INI-9100UW SCSI BIOS Ver 1.10
P2-BX(Ver 1.20)
PGP2BXA Motherboard
ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 8megs(PCI)
Floppy drive(Generic)
Win Cruise V.90 Modem
SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 ASP(CT1770)
SCSI controller KW-910U/UW (PCI-Ultra SCSI)
CDrom CDU625(SONY)(SCSI ID #2)
1gb Jazz drive(SCSI ID #6)***Does not work***
2.25gb IBM(DFHSS2W)(SCSI ID #1)
4.50gb Seagate(ST34572N)(SCSI ID #0)
9.1gb Micropolis(3391WS) (In external case).(SCSI ID #4)/I have two
more identical drives

Windows98(4.10.1998) ***I have no disk or documentation for this
copy.***
Internet Explorer(4.72.3110)
PS/2 mouse
Keyboard
Monitor(IBM Model #7097-593)

Any ideas on what to do next would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[philo]

I have a SCSI system that bgan giving me problems before it completely
went down a few months ago.

The beginning of the end began when the PC began crashing, and then
one day it just would not boot up completely. It swould only go so far
into the boot-up process and then freeze. But not always at the same
point during the boot up sequence. A boot disk was useless. When it
wouldn't even get far enough to show the ram count up, I gave up on
it.

I just turned it on for the first time since last year, and now I
don't even get a signal to the monitor. So I am wonderng what to do
next. Is there a high probablilty that the problem is the
battery(CR2032) on the motherboard, or a power supply problem? I
already tried using different ram to no avail. I assume that the
problem is not the "C" drive itself, because the system doesn't get
far enough for that to be the case. The system is as follows:

HARDWARE
--------
450Mhz Pentium 2
128mb Installed
BIOS Award Modular Ver. 4.51
Award Plug & Play BIOS ext. Ver 1.0A
INI-9100UW SCSI BIOS Ver 1.10
P2-BX(Ver 1.20)
PGP2BXA Motherboard
ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 8megs(PCI)
Floppy drive(Generic)
Win Cruise V.90 Modem
SoundBlaster 16 SCSI-2 ASP(CT1770)
SCSI controller KW-910U/UW (PCI-Ultra SCSI)
CDrom CDU625(SONY)(SCSI ID #2)
1gb Jazz drive(SCSI ID #6)***Does not work***

<snip>

the non-working jazz drive could be hanging the system.
otherwise...pull *all* non-essential hardware...
and if the machine posts ok
then start replacing it until you find the problem

 

[Darren Harris]

the non-working jazz drive could be hanging the system.

otherwise...pull *all* non-essential hardware...
and if the machine posts ok
then start replacing it until you find the problem

No that's not it.

That was just a list of hardware I have. The only things connected to
the system are the keyboard, mouse and monitor.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[Overlord]

<snip>

the non-working jazz drive could be hanging the system.
otherwise...pull *all* non-essential hardware...
and if the machine posts ok
then start replacing it until you find the problem

" I assume that the problem is not the "C" drive itself,
because the system doesn't get far enough for that to
be the case."

At least disconnect the power from the drive. I had a bad
SCSI drive before that killed the SCSI bus. Don't recall if
it murdered the whole system tho. Basically until you get it
posting, you've got squat. Your reply stated that you only
had mouse/keyboard/monitor. I assume you had the monitor
connected to a video card? So that isn't all you had.
Gut it! Start with PS/MB/ram (1 stick)/video card/monitor/
keyboard if you're really serious about troubleshooting it.
Drive and mouse are nonessential at the start AS IS THE CASE!

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[L David Matheny]

I have a SCSI system that bgan giving me problems before it
completely went down a few months ago.

The beginning of the end began when the PC began crashing,
and then one day it just would not boot up completely. It swould
only go so far into the boot-up process and then freeze. But not
always at the same point during the boot up sequence.

<snip>

That sounds like it could be heat-related. Make sure that the
heatsink is making good contact with the processor. Also make
sure all power supply voltages are correct (or close enough).