I built this Abit KX7-333r AMD Athlon 1600 computer with winXP Pro about 3 months ago and everything has worked great until just recently.
The computer just started doing weird things about a week ago. When I would boot it up, some programs that load at startup, like AIM, ICQ, Nortans, etc. would immediately give an error saying they needed to close. Okay, so a couple of days went by and things kept getting worse and worse. Sometimes I'd have to reboot the computer up to like 5 times to get it to load and run everything correctly, but still programs would crash. Like IE would randomally shut down.
So, I thought it was a virus, and forced a Nortans scan, but nothing turned up. Yesterday the computer wouldn't even load winXP completely. It would almost get to the point of being ready for use, but then reboot. So, I thought maybe there was too much on the power supply, so I disconnected a couple of drives, but the computer would still reboot in cycles. So, I got my original WinXP CD ROM and was going to re-install the OS. I got winXP to boot from one of the CD ROM drives and reformated the main OS drive, but when winXP would copy it's files to the HD, it gave file copy error messages. I tried 2 differnt original winXP CD's, but it's never the same files. If I do select retry to copy these files that have errors, about half way into the winXP install it freezes up. So, after several times of this, I thought maybe the HD was bad, but the same thing happened with anouther HD and different CD ROM drives.
This now leads me to believe the motherboard is the cause of trouble and has possibly gone bad. I even cleared the CMOS with the yellow jumper to reset everything and then I reconfigured the BIOS.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be the cause, or if I'm right that the motherboard has possibly gone bad.
Shelby
The computer just started doing weird things about a week ago. When I would boot it up, some programs that load at startup, like AIM, ICQ, Nortans, etc. would immediately give an error saying they needed to close. Okay, so a couple of days went by and things kept getting worse and worse. Sometimes I'd have to reboot the computer up to like 5 times to get it to load and run everything correctly, but still programs would crash. Like IE would randomally shut down.
So, I thought it was a virus, and forced a Nortans scan, but nothing turned up. Yesterday the computer wouldn't even load winXP completely. It would almost get to the point of being ready for use, but then reboot. So, I thought maybe there was too much on the power supply, so I disconnected a couple of drives, but the computer would still reboot in cycles. So, I got my original WinXP CD ROM and was going to re-install the OS. I got winXP to boot from one of the CD ROM drives and reformated the main OS drive, but when winXP would copy it's files to the HD, it gave file copy error messages. I tried 2 differnt original winXP CD's, but it's never the same files. If I do select retry to copy these files that have errors, about half way into the winXP install it freezes up. So, after several times of this, I thought maybe the HD was bad, but the same thing happened with anouther HD and different CD ROM drives.
This now leads me to believe the motherboard is the cause of trouble and has possibly gone bad. I even cleared the CMOS with the yellow jumper to reset everything and then I reconfigured the BIOS.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be the cause, or if I'm right that the motherboard has possibly gone bad.
Shelby
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