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OK, this is really driving me nuts here, as this computer's been running fine (minus a few little quirks, which I'm partially blaming on the motherboard).
OK, here's the situation. Sometimes when I'm working in Windows 2000 (haven't seen if this a problem in Win98, as I have that installed as well), the computer will just spontaneously shut off. Sometimes if will happen if I move the computer slightly (which happens a bit now and again as my office is under construction) or it'll just BSOD out of nowhere, or it'll just go black and reboot. But upon rebooting, the thing won't POST. It's not something that happens when I do a certain chain of events, or anything, so it's horribly unpredictable. :|
The only way I can get the computer to boot is if I kill the master switch on the power supply (to turn the computer completely off, as the power button won't always work as it's an ATX), turn it back on and let it sit for at least a minute (any less and it won't work), then hit the power button. Then the power LED comes on (it didn't before) and the monitor pops on and then it POSTs and boots. Otherwise, I turn it on, the Power LED never comes on (I hear the drives spinning up) and the monitor doesn't get a signal, and it never boots.
I thought maybe the RAM was loose, so I opened it up and reseated it, still had problems. Made sure the video card was seated properly, ran CHKDSK on all my drives, and made sure that all the power cables and things were properly plugged into the various drives.
I'm stuck. Here's what I have in my system before I let you know what I think it might be (and you can tell me I'm wrong
-Retail PIII 450 sitting on a Tyan Tiger 100 (1832) board (a dual proc board, with one proc)...I think it's a revision B, which may be part of the problem, as revision F is newest revision of the board.
-160 megs of PC100 ram (a 128 meg stick and a 32 meg stick)
-A 250 W generic powersupply (it's pretty cheapy, so it could be shorting out)
-Generic Full Tower Case
-2 Western Digital HDs (a 7200 RPM 20 gig and a 5400 8.4 gig, hooked to my Promise Ultra DMS 66 PCI Card).
-Other Cards: SBLive, ATI All In Wonder 128, 3com network card, Digicom Modem Blaster.
I have this gut feeling that there's a short somewhere, or something's gone bad, as this only started happening this week. Something may have been just smacked around a bit too hard or something, I don't know...ideas??? Please help! PM, email, or post here. My brain is to fried to think right now
Thanks!
-orty
OK, this is really driving me nuts here, as this computer's been running fine (minus a few little quirks, which I'm partially blaming on the motherboard).
OK, here's the situation. Sometimes when I'm working in Windows 2000 (haven't seen if this a problem in Win98, as I have that installed as well), the computer will just spontaneously shut off. Sometimes if will happen if I move the computer slightly (which happens a bit now and again as my office is under construction) or it'll just BSOD out of nowhere, or it'll just go black and reboot. But upon rebooting, the thing won't POST. It's not something that happens when I do a certain chain of events, or anything, so it's horribly unpredictable. :|
The only way I can get the computer to boot is if I kill the master switch on the power supply (to turn the computer completely off, as the power button won't always work as it's an ATX), turn it back on and let it sit for at least a minute (any less and it won't work), then hit the power button. Then the power LED comes on (it didn't before) and the monitor pops on and then it POSTs and boots. Otherwise, I turn it on, the Power LED never comes on (I hear the drives spinning up) and the monitor doesn't get a signal, and it never boots.
I thought maybe the RAM was loose, so I opened it up and reseated it, still had problems. Made sure the video card was seated properly, ran CHKDSK on all my drives, and made sure that all the power cables and things were properly plugged into the various drives.
I'm stuck. Here's what I have in my system before I let you know what I think it might be (and you can tell me I'm wrong
-Retail PIII 450 sitting on a Tyan Tiger 100 (1832) board (a dual proc board, with one proc)...I think it's a revision B, which may be part of the problem, as revision F is newest revision of the board.
-160 megs of PC100 ram (a 128 meg stick and a 32 meg stick)
-A 250 W generic powersupply (it's pretty cheapy, so it could be shorting out)
-Generic Full Tower Case
-2 Western Digital HDs (a 7200 RPM 20 gig and a 5400 8.4 gig, hooked to my Promise Ultra DMS 66 PCI Card).
-Other Cards: SBLive, ATI All In Wonder 128, 3com network card, Digicom Modem Blaster.
I have this gut feeling that there's a short somewhere, or something's gone bad, as this only started happening this week. Something may have been just smacked around a bit too hard or something, I don't know...ideas??? Please help! PM, email, or post here. My brain is to fried to think right now
Thanks!
-orty
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