All Right, I Need Some Help, Please

[bulldawg]

Problem: Data is corrupted upon restart.

I am trying to get my bosses machine running again. He had a total Win95 meltdown. The machine is an older P233, generic everything and a Quantum Bigfoot hdd. I decided to load Win98SE instead of 95. Took about 10 pushes on the power button to get anything other than a blank screen . No beep, no video, nothing. Finally got it to boot, installed 98, and on the last reboot, I get hit with a GPF. Restart computer, then Nothing, just a blck screen. OK, format and reload Win95. Up and running fine. Loaded drivers for sound and modem, still fine. Shut down 8 hours later. Tried to restart. Error in in VNETBIOS, need to restart. Then a different error each time I reset it, till now I only get to the loading Win95 or it just stops at the cloud scene. Then nothing. What could be causing this to happen everytime I shut down?

 

[GFORCE100]

Either the CPU is overheating due to the fan not being operational or the PSU is slowly losing it's power. Take off the cover and inspect if the CPU fan works. If so check all cables if they are not lose and such. Finally replace the PSU from another machine (AT or ATX).

 

[WDCentral]

I had a similar problem with rebooting and it turned out to be an overheating processor (91 degrees C!!). I can very close to frying it.

 

[GregMal]

Also just to play it safe....run the Quantum diagnostics on the
harddrive to make sure there are no bad sectors...especially
in the boot sector......Greg

 

[bulldawg]

Well, turns out the cpu fan is NOT working. I will replace it and see what happens. Will also try the Quantum diags. Man, I love this place. Thanks.

 

[GFORCE100]

Yeah. It was the fan after all. Should be running like a swiss watch once you replace the fan.

 

[bulldawg]

Well, it doesn`t seem to be the fan. The thing won`t even post now. The cpu fan spins, hdd spins up, light comes on the cd, but no beep, no video. I`ve hit the power button 20 times and each time I get to this point. Would the mobe be suspect, somehow?

 

[GFORCE100]

It could well be the board but I would check the power suplly first. It may have lots it's ability to generate enough power to start the machine up.