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Weird computer issue
Early this week my computer (Dell XPS Studio 8100) shut off on its own. It then started back up, and at the end of the day I did a clean shutdown. Next morning when I started up the computer, the fans kick on for a few seconds and the computer reboots ... this keeps repeating until I unplug the power cord.
The system is still under warranty, so I called Dell and after checking a few things, they have me take all the memory out and boot the computer with a single 2GB memory stick (there are 4 for a total of 8GB). After doing this with a single stick in each memory slot, we find that slots 1 and 3 appear to be non-functioning.
Skip to today, when a technician came by and installed a new motherboard. The same exact problem. The technician tries resetting the BIOS, and at first it doesn't do anything. He does it again, and after some trial and error, now the system boots with a third memory stick (woohoo, up to 6GB). The technician thinks it may be a power supply problem, but Dell tells him to call it a day and they'll be sending out a new CPU.
So, has anyone encountered a similar problem, and if so, what was the solution?
... meanwhile my RAID array is getting a workout getting rebuilt twice in 3 days ...
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