Hi Everyone,
Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, if not please let me know. I am having some issues with my PC that hopefully you can help me with. This will be a bit long, I will try to get all the details though.
Friday afternoon my computer was working just fine. I had volunteered its use for a local function, so I shut it down normally and disconnected everything with the power off. When I tried to boot it up at this location, it came on for maybe a second and then off. It did this repeatedly. The only difference was that a couple USB devices that were normally there were no longer connected. I also had a second monitor connected. I disconnected the second monitor thinking this may be the problem, no change. After 15 some minutes it did finally boot up, after several partial boots. Other than that it seemed to be running fine.
When I brought it back home, I encountered the same issue and discovered something else was not quite right. I tried to play COD4, just after the map loaded and the game should load, it completely shut down and rebooted. I found it does the same thing on Crysis, however, COD2 and AOE3 work just fine.
As this local function was a two day deal, I took it back Saturday and had the same problem, it would not boot correctly. When brought back I really did not think it was going to boot back at all, initially no power. But again, as I am using it now, it did boot back up. I have restarted it several times, no isuues. I shut it completely down for a couple minutes and it boots right back up, no issues. Granted more "off" time was involved with moving it so that may have something to do with it?
Things I have tried.
I uninstalled nVidias "nTune" software. I uninstalled the video drivers by removing the video card from the device manager and deleting the nVidia folder. I then rebooted in safe mode and ran "driver sweeper" to remove all traces of the driver. Rebooted normally into Windows and installed the latest driver. No change.
I ran Memtest 86+, I only ran one pass, no errors reported.
Specs:
Windows XP Home SP2
CPU E4500
Mobo Intel DG965RY
Ram 2Gb Corsair XMS2 PC6400
Video card EVGA GeForce 8800GT
PSU Ultra 500W
Not sure what other info would be helpful. Does have any thoughts of where to look here? While I did build this PC myself, I am at a losss with issues like this.
Thanks,
Allen
This is indeed not the correct forum, it belongs in Computer Help.
General Hardware Moderator -- MarcVenice
Not sure if this is the correct forum for this, if not please let me know. I am having some issues with my PC that hopefully you can help me with. This will be a bit long, I will try to get all the details though.
Friday afternoon my computer was working just fine. I had volunteered its use for a local function, so I shut it down normally and disconnected everything with the power off. When I tried to boot it up at this location, it came on for maybe a second and then off. It did this repeatedly. The only difference was that a couple USB devices that were normally there were no longer connected. I also had a second monitor connected. I disconnected the second monitor thinking this may be the problem, no change. After 15 some minutes it did finally boot up, after several partial boots. Other than that it seemed to be running fine.
When I brought it back home, I encountered the same issue and discovered something else was not quite right. I tried to play COD4, just after the map loaded and the game should load, it completely shut down and rebooted. I found it does the same thing on Crysis, however, COD2 and AOE3 work just fine.
As this local function was a two day deal, I took it back Saturday and had the same problem, it would not boot correctly. When brought back I really did not think it was going to boot back at all, initially no power. But again, as I am using it now, it did boot back up. I have restarted it several times, no isuues. I shut it completely down for a couple minutes and it boots right back up, no issues. Granted more "off" time was involved with moving it so that may have something to do with it?
Things I have tried.
I uninstalled nVidias "nTune" software. I uninstalled the video drivers by removing the video card from the device manager and deleting the nVidia folder. I then rebooted in safe mode and ran "driver sweeper" to remove all traces of the driver. Rebooted normally into Windows and installed the latest driver. No change.
I ran Memtest 86+, I only ran one pass, no errors reported.
Specs:
Windows XP Home SP2
CPU E4500
Mobo Intel DG965RY
Ram 2Gb Corsair XMS2 PC6400
Video card EVGA GeForce 8800GT
PSU Ultra 500W
Not sure what other info would be helpful. Does have any thoughts of where to look here? While I did build this PC myself, I am at a losss with issues like this.
Thanks,
Allen
This is indeed not the correct forum, it belongs in Computer Help.
General Hardware Moderator -- MarcVenice
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