Booting Problems

[oniq]

During the past two weeks I've been having some problems with my computer. I have an Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard w/1.2ghz athlon chip, 1gig pc133 ram, 40+8.4gig hard drives, cdrw, cdrom, avance logic sound card, kingston 100mbit ethernet, and a geforce3 ti 500. I'm running Windows XP professional edition which was running smoothly, no crashes, no nothing for months now. But all of a sudden (no new hardware installed) everything keeps crashing. Whenever I ran a lot of applications it would crash (thought it was the memory). Whenever I tried transferring big files from one hard drive to the next it crashed (thought it was the hard drives). First the computer would just reset, then I got some blue screens saying: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. But today I got a blue screen talking about the nv4_disp.dll driver of my geforce 3. I turned the computer off and made sure everything was in tight, and turned on the computer. Nothing on the screen. Just says "make sure the signal cable is connected". I thought, great, probably the video card. So I swapped it for my old one and still no luck. I disconnected all the IDE devices, nothing. I removed the memory all but one chip, still no go. So I'm stumped as to what could be wrong. I'm thinking it might be a faulty 300W power supply (I'm hoping), or the motherboard, or something else. Any ideas as to what it could be? Or something I could do to further narrow down the problem? Most of the components are brand new other than the soundcard, hard drives, motherboard and power supply which I've had for 10months+. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

 

[WarCon]

So your getting nothing on your screen right now? Is the machine otherwise appear to be booting up or is it locked up? If its booting then its your video card or mobo. If its not booting up, it could be any number of things. Try reseting your CMOS jumper and see if it boots again. Thats one place to start.

Try removing all your peripheral's and memory and disconnecting all cables (not the front panel connectors) and see if you even get a beep code. If you don't, then you can narrow the problem to the components that are left.........powersupply, mobo and processor. You have to swap test these.

Did you use the thermal pad or thermal compound? If you used paste, you might consider checking to see if the paste is still there or if its dried out.

Good luck man and welcome to the forums..........

 

[DaiShan]

did you install the via 4 in 1's for xp? if you get it running again by following warcon's advice, try doing this.

 

[oniq]

I'm going to try removing everything, and see if that works. Thank you. If I get it working I'll install those via 4 in 1 drivers. Thing is, it was working fine for months and then broke for no reason. I'll reply soon and tell you how it went.

 

[oniq]

I took everything out and plugged it all in one by one and it all works now. I'm thinking either something was lose or I'm just having some luck for a couple of hours and it will crash again.. Where can I get the VIA 4 IN 1 drivers for my motherboard? I checked abit's site but only found the VIA Service Pack. Is that it?? Thanks for the replies.