Computer Restarting

[Crazykirsch]

I'll try to summarize as best I can here, basically a friend of mine asked me to look at some old pc's and try to throw together something that would work for web browsing. Long story short I whipped together a pc from a few of the working parts, started putting windows 7 on it, and then as it was getting close to completion(were talking like the final restart), the pc decided it was going to start restarting every 4-5ish seconds. I'm fairly sure it's the mobo or the hdd, but I'm out of my league here and asking for help. I've swapped out the ram, and even threw some of my own ddr2 into it and the problem persisted, so I'm fairly sure that's not the issue, and the psu was running another pc up to like 2 days ago perfectly fine.

The mobo has a broken pci-e slot, which is why it was laying around, but this wasn't going to be an issue for this temp build, and I managed run the hdd as a secondary on my pc and grab some old files off of it so it is reading at the least.

But now it just goes into consta-restart mode, even if I'm fast enough and I can snag the boot menu, soon as i select a method it will go back into the restart loop.

 

[Vette73]

Check to make sure the CPU was not over heating, run a memory test (boot disk does not require a OS), was the PSU running a weaker system perhaps?, re-seat everything, and only use 1 stick on ram in differant slots.

Doubt its a hard drive issue. Bad hard drive usually causes a system to hang. That and if doing it at the boot screen that is pre-hard drive.

 

[Crazykirsch]

The psu was actually powering a slightly more demanding system, It just bugs me that it ran fine while reformatting the drive and then decided to suddenly die, I guess that's technology. I'll pull the cpu and clean it up / slap some arctic silver on it, and might as well hook my psu up to it just to be thorough.

 

[Texashiker]

If this is an older motherboard - check the motherboard manufacturers website to see if there are any issues with windows 7.

sometimes old out dated boards can cause problems with newer operating systems

 

[Crazykirsch]

So I hooked up my psu and stumbled upon what might be the problem, because when I booted it up with my seasonic x650, I forgot to hook the hdd up, so it error'd... but it didn't string restart > hooked the hdd up and back to restarting, if the sata settings were messed up in the bios to be set in Raid or something could that be the cause? I guess I'll throw the old psu in and check it out.

Edit: I'm jealous of Intel owners, something about those pushpins just feels more secure and yet easier to connect at the same time.