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My son built a machine - msi - k7n2 delta / amd 2800 / wd 120 gig / lite-on dvd+/- / ati9600 pro machine boots up and runs fine BUT if you knock against the case (even gently) it reboots - any ideas where to begin troubleshoot welcome thanx much

some more info - stop error code 0x0000007b (0xF894D640, 0xc0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) we shutdown some processes but problem continues the ide controller is NVIDIA NForce MCP2 IDE Controller since i can not boot the machine in safe or any mode I do not know how to get a memory dump -...

an update - we did a clean install of XP on the slave HD and booted from there - all works perfectly - tried to boot from the primary drive containing to upgraded from win2k to XP and still get a blue screen lost in blue - please - any ideas?

I am back with yet another blue screen of death - I just finish an upgrade from win2k prof to XP prof - everything appeared to install fine except on the first try it couldn't find iexporer and another file on the CD - I moved the CD to my other drive and it found the files and loaded them fine...

eureka! thanx all - i switched back to the old MB; changed the ide controller to the standard dual channel - switched back to the new MB and success! win2k loved it. of course things never end - i added a wintv2000 card; loaded the software and the machine started a continuous rebooting...

thanx to all for the suggestions - i'll try the merge reg tonite and see if that does it - i thought that the ms site said that proceudre would not work for raid boards but it is worth a try - i have used it before and been successful. if that doesn't work i'll try putting the hardware back on...

I just moved my system from an ecsk7s5a to a new msi k7n2 delta-ilsr - problem is my OS is WIN2k and it doesn't like the move - I get the blue screen with the stop error "inaccessable boot disk" - I think that the problem is due to ide controller differences between the 2 boards - some fixes I...

ok - i have the same problem - working on older computer for giveaway - shutdown ok when i started - will not shutdown now - will shutdown in safe mode - how do I isolate the problem??? TSR, driver, etc........ don't have virus software on machine yet. thanx much

thanx much darkknight - I sent this to my son at college - he's the gamer in the family - he likes the monitor - has been running vga - his dvi card is not due until santa shows up - one dead pixel so far showed up about two weeks in - middle of the screen - he says it doesn't bother him. 25 ms...

thanx - when i power on the fans spin - when i had the drives hooked up the lights came on the cr-rom. i'll try the no memory and see what happens though i thought a machine would not post without some memory

I just received an albatron 17 asd lcd from newegg - it seems that from the newegg reviews that there is an old and new version of this monitor - the old version has a contrast of 450:1 and a response of 40ms while the new one is 500:1 and 25ms. newegg advertises the specs for the newer...

thanx much for all the suggestions - here's what i've tried and still no post - no signal to monitor 1. I pulled the board out of the case and rested it on a book to make sure no shorts 2. i re-seated the cpu and fan 3. i disconnected all devices (drives, cd-roms) except for keyboard -...

thanx for the suggesitons so far no beeps - the fans spin and the hd and cd-rom have power - no post - the screen is blank - i tried removing and replacing the agp card and dimm - in fact i switched the agp card for an old pci vid card and switched the ddr ram with some old crucial pc133 that...

well now I messed things up pretty good - tried switching mb and chip between to machines - now nothing works! machine A : ecs board k7s5a v3and amd chip xp2100 and 1 stick crucial 512 ddr 2700 ram plus ati rage vid card machine B: ecs board k7s5a v1 (older bios version) and amd xp1700...

bump for help - I am having a very similar problem - power on but no booting - monitor does not show any system info - my worry is that the last electrical storm cooked my mb though I have a good protector.