Computer reboots on startup

[gwlam12]

My computer keeps on rebooting itself. When I turn on the computer, immediately after it finds bootable files (whether on hard drive or cd-rom) it will reboot. I tried overclocking my video card. If it fried, would it cause this problem? Thanks. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[amdskip]

If your video card was overclocked when booting, then it is the cause for all this. Just physically remove your card, boot up halfway, shut down, install video card, and then you should be fine.

 

[gwlam12]

boot up halfway? what do you mean by halfway? i dont know where the halfway point is. is it after the system beeps?

yea, i tried overclocking it.

 

[gwlam12]

well i took out video card, turned on pc, received a lot of beeps then silence then more beeps, turned off, stuck card back in, same problem. 🙁

i tried ocing radeon 32mb ddr from 166mhz to 183mhz. i hope that doesnt fry it. it'd give me an excuse to buy a new video card though 🙂

could it be mobo problem?

i tried taking out everything except ram , hd, and video card. same problem.
the ram isnt the problem because i have two sticks (one i got 2 days ago) and i stuck them in individually into different slots, same problem.

 

[amdskip]

Try resetting the CMOS with the jumper near the battery usually.

 

[gwlam12]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Try resetting the CMOS with the jumper near the battery usually.

yea ...i tried that before i did the video card swap. no luck

 

[gwlam12]

what happened was i was just surfing the net with my video card overclocked, then i get blue screen and auto reboot. after that reboot, it just keeps rebooting after it finds a boot record.

i put in an xp boot disk, and it reboots.

i put in a win95 startup disk, and it doesnt reboot.

i think the differrence between the two is because xp boots up a gui screen and 95 goes to the command prompt. i could be wrong.

 

[gwlam12]

up

 

[amdskip]

Try a new video card or a pci one. Maybe the agp slot is fried?