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>James P. Kinney III said:
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>>If the hardware is crap you shouldn't get hit with a restocking fee. It
>>should be a warranty return.
>>
>>If wherever you got it from won't honor the warranty, take it on the
>>chin and take your business elsewhere.
>>
>>At this point, return the entire pile of garbage and get something else.
>>The motherboard is bad and there may be other problems as well. If the
>>power supply fried it may have surged and trashed the board.
>>
>>**note** There are big advantages to getting all the parts for a new
>>system from one supplier.
>>    
>>
>
>I think you might have misunderstood me...the system itself is one I built
>over three years ago and has been rock solid the entire time.  I recently
>added the additional hard drive (which was a source of my emails last
>week), but the rebooting and freeze problems have started occurring the
>last week.  So...it's either somehow weirdly being caused by the new hard
>drive (which I can remove and still get the problems, so I doubt it) or
>it's something else.  My money is on the motherboard.
>
>Thanks!
>John
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Might sound too simple, but try changing the IDE Cable.  Make sure it's 
a new 80 pin variety.
Had something similar happen to me a couple years ago.

Calvin...


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