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June 7th, 2006
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| Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 14
|  uh ohz i need help so the problem is my computer has been running fine until last week, advice from Tyreal made me come here, so anyways the problem is that: When i attempt to start my computer the computer's initial checks for the hd and dvd drives etc works, then after the loading of windows xp screen, my computer sometimes gets a blue flash and then just reboots and sometimes it gets to the login screen and when i enter my pw and press enter, it freezes when it says loading personal settings, and reboots. It is not my hd, ive tried multiple harddrives and same thing happens. Specs: 300wSPI p4 with Ht socket 478 Sis661fx chip set 2gb of pc3200 ram x700pro Dual HDs, one crappy old one thingy with like 1gb of storage(hw) Water Cooled Runs 39 degrees So basically what i think is that its not software, its not the vid card. Can anyone help confirm. My speculation is that its either my crappy mobo or a semi dead psu |
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June 7th, 2006
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| We take both criticism and positive comments very positively  | hmmmm tough call. Need to isolate the issue...... My first guess is the power supply  INTEL QX9650 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 8GB PC2-8500 // BFG GTX260 MaxCore // DD Torture Rack // Seagate 750GB HDD // OCZ Vendetta // PC Power & Cooling 620W PSU |
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June 7th, 2006
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| Modder-ator  | Well, it could be several things. First, are you overclocking? If so, have you tried to boot with stock settings? What about loading "Fail Safe" defaults in the BIOS? Are you sure you don't have a virus of some kind? Try booting into Safe Mode, does that work? If so, try a virus scan in there. Is there anything (anything at all) that you recently changed, moved, added, removed, etc.? When you say you tried multiple hard drives, did you reformat these hard drives and do a fresh install of windows or did you try to boot from another windows install? What was on these other HDD's?  |
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June 7th, 2006
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| Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 14
| No i am not Ocing, i have tried fail-safe defaults, and when i say multiple harddrives, i mean i share comp my comp with my dad and we have a harddrive switching mechanism, and he almost never uses the comp so his hd is perfectly fine, oh and sometimes after the windows loading screen it just goes to a black screen and stays there, it seems in safe mode there are no problems so far |
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June 7th, 2006
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 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 1,199
| fresh install of windows could never hurt anyone. E2140 @ 375 x 8 = 3.0ghz 2x1 ocz system 1337s pc2-6400 5-5-5-15 @ 450mhz gigabyte P35 S3L eVGA 7600GT Stock 120 gig seagate ULTRA X-Finity 600w Sonata 2 w/ top fan G5 Lazer Mouse |
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June 7th, 2006
| #8 |
| Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 14
| yes i can boot into safe mode , but then when i revert to regular start up, it reboots when i put my pw in Yes i have tried reformatting. |
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June 7th, 2006
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| Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC
Posts: 1,199
| hmm. i'll go along with everyone else and say power supply. E2140 @ 375 x 8 = 3.0ghz 2x1 ocz system 1337s pc2-6400 5-5-5-15 @ 450mhz gigabyte P35 S3L eVGA 7600GT Stock 120 gig seagate ULTRA X-Finity 600w Sonata 2 w/ top fan G5 Lazer Mouse |
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June 7th, 2006
| #10 |
| Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 14
| btw how can i tell if its a psu problem or a mobo problem? |
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