System freezes. Right from its initial delivery from IBM, my Intellistation M Pro type 6849 would freeze once roughly every 3 months. It was a complete freeze requiring cycling power down and back up to recover. There were no warnings - no unusual behaviors, no "blue screen of death", no unusual entries in the event log.
This continued for about 3 years then rapidly became much worse. Eventually it began to freeze during the boot process, even during the first phase of the boot process - before Win2000 was in control. I removed all nonessential adapters - still failed. I ran diagnostic programs - DOS mode, no Windows running - when I could get that far, and it would eventually freeze in this mode proving that it was not a Windows problem.
IBM replaced the system board and CPU about 4 months ago. This corrected the problem, sort of. It's back to its original behavior, hanging about every six to eight weeks.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any suggestions other than dumping IBM? Thanks in advance.
This continued for about 3 years then rapidly became much worse. Eventually it began to freeze during the boot process, even during the first phase of the boot process - before Win2000 was in control. I removed all nonessential adapters - still failed. I ran diagnostic programs - DOS mode, no Windows running - when I could get that far, and it would eventually freeze in this mode proving that it was not a Windows problem.
IBM replaced the system board and CPU about 4 months ago. This corrected the problem, sort of. It's back to its original behavior, hanging about every six to eight weeks.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any suggestions other than dumping IBM? Thanks in advance.