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Computer Dieing?

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krashx6

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i recently formatted my harddrive, everything working fine. woke up a few days later and found my computer had shutdown. i tired to restart it but the BIOS would never come up. i reset the CMOS still the same thing. I booted it up like this a bunch more times till it finally made it to the BIOS. Usually after resetting my BIOS since the FSB is set back to default 100/100mhz the CPU reads as 1100mhz but it now says its 733mhz. When i attempt to change the FSB to 133/133mhz and i save settings and reboot no matter how many times i reboot my computer i cannot get to the BIOS again. So i reset my CMOS again and the problem persists. Any ideas ?
 
CPU -- AMD Athlon XP 1700+
RAM -- Crucial DDR 2100 256mb x2
MOBO -- ECS K7S5A
PSU -- 330W Enermax EG351P-V
HDD -- IBM 40gb IC35L040AVV07
GFX -- Gainward Geforce3 Ti500
 
check the settings for the FSB, sounds like they are incorrect, and the exact problem described will happen when you don't choose the correct settings.

Try 133/100 100/133. That is what I have found on the many ECS boards I have used with an AMD chip.
 
ive ran it at 133/133 for the past 2 years. i have the same problem no matter what the FSB setting now tho. 100/133 and 100/100 and it will boot the BIOS on the 100th try. At 133/133 it never boots.
 
Might also want to look at the capacitors on the motherboard, had this problem with my Dad's machine and it took us forever to figure out what was wrong.

http://www.motherboardrepair.com/

The most common symptoms of capacitor failure are:

1. Failure to boot .
2. Must attempt booting several times before machine will start.
3. Instability , especially when graphics are complex.
4. Machine boots with a pre-Coppermine Celeron but will not boot with a PIII Coppermine.
5. Bad odor wafts about the room and this time it wasn't you or the dog.
6. Bios health alarm (hi-low siren) at boot but PC health screen shows no reason for the alarm.
7. Fans spin up, power indicator lights up and nothing else happens
 
1, 2, 7 are symptoms i show but nothing like the rest. Gave the mobo a once over didnt notice any caps discolored or charred..
 
did that, no luck. removed anything that would take power besides the mobo (fans, cdroms, etc), still the same thing.
 
try booting with just the motherboard, memory and video card. If that works, slowly add devices to the motherboard until it fails.
 
i did that too =/ ive made every possible swap under the sun and have taken anything out that isnt absoulutely necessary.
 
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