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From: klimperi@uafhp.uark.edu (Kurt Limperis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: System hangs - hard to restart
Message-ID: <6469@uafhp.uark.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 13:43:35 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Sometimes my machine hangs for no apparent reason.  This has happened in
windows, at the dos prompt, in the middle of a floppy read, on the 
11th disk during the borland c installation program, etc.  Immeadiately
after the hang I have to power off/on sometimes up to 10 times to get it
to come back. 

During the power cycling, my keyboard lights will flash and the harddrive
light will come on for a second and go out and I'll be staring at a blank 
screen.  Even the reset button will not work during these episodes.

I checked all the connections.  I sent my motherboard back to have it checked
out (and cache replaced - another story).  It came back with no problems 
found (sent it directly to AMI). 

Could it be the power supply?  If so, how do you check it?  Or... I noticed
that the power connector (the one that's attached to the motherboard) is
a little loose.  It will rock back and forth with no effort.      

My system:  Touche
	    AMI 386-33 w/64k cache 4 meg RAM
	    200 Meg Maxtor IDE
	    Orchid Prodesigner II and Sony 1304 HG
	    1.2 Meg and 1.44 Meg floppies

Thanks in advance.

Kurt Limperis
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville