Computer in Restart Cycle

[Prince of Persia]

System Specs
Epox 8k7a w/ AMD 1.33ghz Tbird
2 x 256 DDR PC2100 Crucial Ram
Geforce3

Everytime I turn on my computer I look at the codes on the readout of the motherboard and it appears to boot fine (reaches the FF mark that says everything is ok). However, it quickly restarts the computer and goes through the same cycle, hits FF, then bam restarts again. It just constantly keeps restarting!

I think it may be my ram, but neither sticks work. How likely is it for 2 sticks of ram to go bad at the same time?! (One was replaced about 2-3 months ago too)

 

[johnjkr1]

Do you ever see anything on the screen? If so, what is the last thing you see on the screen?

 

[amdskip]

Try hitting F8 when booting and boot into last known good configuration to see if it works.

 

[Looney]

RAM, if left alone, almost never ever go bad... so the chances of 2 sticks going bad at the same time, is highly improbable. If memory problem does occur, and you haven't been handling the ram lately, it's more than likely something wrong with the board and the memory slots.

Anyways, can you get into safemode? If not, try booting with debug mode on, and look carefully at the screen, and see where it stops/restarts at... that will be the problem that's causing the reboot.

 

[ron2368]

Is it not getting thru the bios or not getting into windows?

Can you get into the bios screen?? Press delete as it beeps . If it is never getting out of the bios boot then maybe you could reset the bios to defaults or reset the cmos?

 

[DanTMWTMP]

try underclocking?