I own an athlon xp based desktop. It has 2 512 mb ddr400 ram, a 120gb WD hdd, an athlon xp-m 2400, a PNY Vanilla 6800, and an Abit NF7-S.
I left it at home for the family to use since I am using a different desktop at college. Anyway, I get a call from my brother that says it isnt working. He did something in the bios to turn it to failsafe defaults, which actually raises the cpu voltage higher than the stock speeds.
So, I am home from school now and am trying to fix the problem. At first, the cpu (i was getting cpu related error messages at boot up) and it was acting up and I set it to the default multiplier/voltage settings for the cpu. That fixed the cpu error messages, now I am trying to diagnose the original issue.
Windows XP starts booting, it gives the little screen with the bar, and once it's done it BSODS for a split second, too short for me to see what is actually there, and the computer resets. I am trying to figure out things I can do to diagnose the problem.
From what I can gather, the cpu and video card at the problem. The video card does some message before the bios, as it always has. The cpu was giving issues, like it wouldn't go past the boot messages, but resetting it to the factory settings of the 2400 fixed that. Right now I am downloading ubuntu to try to run it as a live cd to see if it's anything else, since I can't get to windows to run any sort of testing.
What other diagnostic suggestions do you folks have for figuring out the problem? I will also try changing the ram, booting with just 1 stick, and I will write more when I get ubuntu running.
Thank you for your time and help, have a nice day.
I left it at home for the family to use since I am using a different desktop at college. Anyway, I get a call from my brother that says it isnt working. He did something in the bios to turn it to failsafe defaults, which actually raises the cpu voltage higher than the stock speeds.
So, I am home from school now and am trying to fix the problem. At first, the cpu (i was getting cpu related error messages at boot up) and it was acting up and I set it to the default multiplier/voltage settings for the cpu. That fixed the cpu error messages, now I am trying to diagnose the original issue.
Windows XP starts booting, it gives the little screen with the bar, and once it's done it BSODS for a split second, too short for me to see what is actually there, and the computer resets. I am trying to figure out things I can do to diagnose the problem.
From what I can gather, the cpu and video card at the problem. The video card does some message before the bios, as it always has. The cpu was giving issues, like it wouldn't go past the boot messages, but resetting it to the factory settings of the 2400 fixed that. Right now I am downloading ubuntu to try to run it as a live cd to see if it's anything else, since I can't get to windows to run any sort of testing.
What other diagnostic suggestions do you folks have for figuring out the problem? I will also try changing the ram, booting with just 1 stick, and I will write more when I get ubuntu running.
Thank you for your time and help, have a nice day.
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