I am running a P4 1.4 Ghz, with a Winfast Titanium GeForce 2 32mb video card, a seagate 40gb hd, fairly old 12X CDR, and a floppy drive, 256 RAM, and a MSI motherboard. Simple system, nothing to fancy.
and the problem..
The PC was stable for a long time, more then 2 years, then I started running into some weird problems. For some reason, my PC would just freeze (im running XP Prof) I would restart it, and it would ask whether i want to restart windows normally, last known good config, etc.. if i choose start windows normally, it would show the windows boot logo and then just goto a black screen, and not load up the default blue select user screen. The mouse would also move quite slow. Choosing all the different options, nothing seemed to work, until I disconnected everything and plugged in just the harddrive, and did NOT connect the cdrom and floppy... it went through, XP booted fine. So then I shut it down, plug in the floppy and cdrom, and it loaded xp, but the system got extremely slow, so i rebooted...back to the 'start windows normally...or last known good config' deal. I decided to do only the HD again, and it ran.. so I hooked up the floppy..but no cdrom.. it ran... i hook up the cdrom.. and the freeze and boot problems happen. I tried it the other way as well, HD and CDROM, works fine until i install the floppy then i have problems. I also noticed that several times it didnt even get to the windows logo screen, the monitor would just read no input.. and i have an optical mouse that lights up during powerup and that wouldnt light up at all... so i figured that the only logical thing is the computer is not getting enough power because of the power supply which is probably faulty..
so i replaced the power supply today..
SAME PROBLEM!!! CDROM and FLOPPY wont work together!!!
Ive read up on this, some say its a RAM problem? i ran windows diagnotic but the first pass showed nothign wrong.. could it be a motherboard problem? i need help ASAP!!
and the problem..
The PC was stable for a long time, more then 2 years, then I started running into some weird problems. For some reason, my PC would just freeze (im running XP Prof) I would restart it, and it would ask whether i want to restart windows normally, last known good config, etc.. if i choose start windows normally, it would show the windows boot logo and then just goto a black screen, and not load up the default blue select user screen. The mouse would also move quite slow. Choosing all the different options, nothing seemed to work, until I disconnected everything and plugged in just the harddrive, and did NOT connect the cdrom and floppy... it went through, XP booted fine. So then I shut it down, plug in the floppy and cdrom, and it loaded xp, but the system got extremely slow, so i rebooted...back to the 'start windows normally...or last known good config' deal. I decided to do only the HD again, and it ran.. so I hooked up the floppy..but no cdrom.. it ran... i hook up the cdrom.. and the freeze and boot problems happen. I tried it the other way as well, HD and CDROM, works fine until i install the floppy then i have problems. I also noticed that several times it didnt even get to the windows logo screen, the monitor would just read no input.. and i have an optical mouse that lights up during powerup and that wouldnt light up at all... so i figured that the only logical thing is the computer is not getting enough power because of the power supply which is probably faulty..
so i replaced the power supply today..
SAME PROBLEM!!! CDROM and FLOPPY wont work together!!!
Ive read up on this, some say its a RAM problem? i ran windows diagnotic but the first pass showed nothign wrong.. could it be a motherboard problem? i need help ASAP!!
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