hard drive problem?

[bobbyc]

Hi,
I have been having this problem with one of my towers.... I thought it went away because the uptime was 30+ days since it last did this.... what happens is the CPU locks up but the cards keep on working... meaning I can associate to the AP cards, and the infrastructure card still associates to the AP at the other tower... but I can't ping this CPU. I went up to the tower tonight and swapped everything over to a new motherboard. When I booted up, the hard drive lost it's config... but still had strr 1.12.3. I had to re enter the IPs and network names, etc...
What would make it loose it's config, and could that be related to my main problem about it locking up? Should I get a new HD as my next step if this MB doesn't solve the problem?
I'm at the tower now on my laptop and am going to reflash it with 1.12.3 before I leave.
Thanks,
Bob C

[lonnie]

The new motherboard would have re-organized all the devides so you would have had random assignment of IP addresses. The info should have been there, just not in the right slots. Or, was the config cone entirely?

[bobbyc]

The config was totally gone, including customers names on the association list... weird huh? I've made many save/activate changes on this machine the past 30+ days so it's not me forgetting to save changes.
Only thing I can think of is if the config got lost when I powered down the unit... I did power it down during bootup because I forgot to enter the bios when I fired up the new mobo.
I've had a DOM waiting for this tower if my main problem of locking up shows back up.
I put the radios back in order too... so it's not that.
Thanks!
Bob C

[WISP]

Correct me if I am wrong, but does this board have onboard network. If it does did it convert to a trial mode and loose the config?

[tony]

The trial modes do not change, or remove any configuration previously in place. The only known ways to lose a configuration are a loss of power during a file->save / file->activate, or a corrupt image causing an inability to retrieve the saved configuration after the system has been rebooted.

[bobbyc]

I think Tony hit the nail on the head... I think this hard drive is corrupted and having problems and I have scheduled it to be replaced with a DOM. It definetely didn't lose power during a save/activate change session; so it must be corrupted.
I used the same NIC when I swapped mobo's, and it still had it's license key... the config was gone and it went to the default password.
It's just weird though because I have had ping watchdog on and running but I guess if that would get corrupted too if it was a HD problem.
Bob C