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post #21 of 23
3/1/06 at 7:03pm
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this one came with a motherboard that likes to boot the entire system up if i simply plug in the ac adapter to it...happens 30% of the time....explain that!
im a bit late, but check the bios for "Turn on after power failure"
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post #22 of 23
3/1/06 at 10:12pm
beside the sensible comment about the arctic silver i can not really agree with the (it seems this days universal solution of the mobo went bad). i have several sagers and yes also several 9860ies, usually it is the as5, dust clogging the vents or cpu hog software running in the back. often enough also just "shitty" compiled software that just starts filling up your memory. programmers this days are just lazy sob's - since machine power goes up and up and memory cheap (and accordingly there is more in machines) the quality of code writing goes down the drain .
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post #23 of 23
2/16/07 at 8:17pm
I had the same exact problem with my 9860. While playing ANY 3D game for a bit this problem would start happening. It's cyclical, I got the sound glitch and then poor fps, then about 1 min later, sound glitch and smooth fps again, then it would reoccur about 5-10 minutes later. Also had the same phenomenon where the fans would ratchet down in speed like everything is being way less taxed and so it doesn't need the same amount of cooling, as a poster above said, "sorta like it was taking a rest." I performed most if not all of the troubleshooting mentioned above and even completely reinstalled Windows XP. After the reinstall it seemed to be OK for a few days then right back to having the same issue. Finally after about a month of this I started having the boot problems which pointed to a MOBO failure. The machine eventually died all together and now I have a big silver 15 pound paperweight. I'm now about to send the entire machine back to Sager for a MOBO replacement. Hopefully all will be well after that. So, word to the wise, if you're having this problem and you're still under warranty, SEND IT IN! This all happened to me 1 month after my warranty expired. I'm betting it IS related to the "known issue" of MOBO failure in these machines.
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