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Voltage drops cause the hardware to suspend operations, which is OS independent. The freezes and reboots will continue in the bios, in Win9x, in WinNT, solaris, bsd, etc. As for the actual replacements of caps, it isn't that hard at all. I had a buddy of mine with 20x the experience with small elect...

Try juggling around your PCI cards. Some of the PCI slots share IRQs, and not all devices are capable of doing that (and even if they are, most don't like it). Just note that windows doesn't like this too much and will reinstall drivers every time you move a card.

NT is a decent OS. For workstations it's pretty good. Still don't trust it for servers, but then I'm paranoid.

Is there a 100uF capacitor in EC10? Also check and see if your board's voltage regulators are improper - there are a bunch of guides out there that specify what you should have, Yochiro's is one of the better ones. Had the same issues with my machine when I put one or two P3s in. Swapped out the din...

P3-xxxEs are coppermines @ 100mhz bus. A P3-xxxEB would be a coppermine with a 133mhz FSB (hence the B).

As for p3s they're SMP-enabled. Earlier steppings with coppermines (cA_) had some issues, but cB0 and on work fine.

Pop everything out save one CPU, your vid card, and a stick of memory. Then try again. If no response, try the other CPU, then repeat with both CPUs in different sockets. That will eliminate the CPUs and/or sockets. If still nothing, take the board out of the case and put it on its box or something ...

Better hurry up and wait for OBE. It's going to be a while before it's stable. As for BE itself, it's a nifty OS, just not one with a whole lot of applications.

If you're going to lightly load a Sun with web-serving duties, yes, it will perform horribly. They're meant to shovel data, not make tight little loops.

It will handle anything that it can address. That number is ~137GB. You need ATA133 with its extended addresses scheme or SCSI to go higher.

The fdisk /mbr doesn't alter the addressing/partition data in the partition tables, it only rewrites the code used for booting. A good article on it is here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q69013& As for how to fix your problem, I know there are a few utils floating around. ...

Very similar to unix? You arent that familiar w/ unix are you? It _is_ unix. unix comes in different flavors. AT&T and BSD were the first. Linux is also a type of unix. While not identical in operation or in focus, they are all unix. google for 'unix hostory". Depends what you consider unix to be. ...

OS/filesystem issue. If the bios gets it right there's nothing wrong with the driver, controller, or interface. The only times I've seen OSes do this is when the drive has garbage in the MBR/partition tables or is wildly overclocked.

The BP6 has an AGP2x compliant slot. This means just about anything will work in it. The only real concern I have is that the BP6 is not very good at handling high voltage loads in the AGP slot. Newer cards suck up juice on the same level as CPUs (more in many cases), which the BP6 can have issues s...

Check and make sure your floppy is set up properly in the bios. Also make sure the cable is plugged in the right way (if the seek light is on constantly, you have it upside-down). As for your boot order, set it to something with EXT in it, and set EXT to be the HPT366, not SCSI. Your current setting...

Use an RU-series bios. Personally I just use one of the stock RUs or one with a different logo for the Energy Star portion of the screen. P3 microcode is really quite optional, as the board runs those chips fine without it. As for HPT bios/driver, the latest is typically your best bet, though I'd ho...