constant restarting: Update..even weirder :0

[rocadelpunk]

oy vey, more computer trubs.

so all of a sudden my desktop will go through bios...right before it gets to loading windows it restarts the comp.

here's the kicker, once again all of a sudden there's this grinding/"thinking" noise which is constant. I'm "pretty" sure I located the sound to be the fan t-bird


and while I didn't watch the temps for a long while, they did start at like 51 and go to 60...but still, that was over a few min, it should still boot into windows? And even if the fan was messed up (bios still shows it as spinning at 5200rpm) why would that cause constant restarting.

Should also note that I had another "broken stripe" error this morning. I don't know why that happens, but when I move like a cable or whatever is resting on the top hardrive, it fixes it...

the hardrives load fine in bios and the grinding noise seems too loud to be from hardrive and doesn't seem to be in same direction at all..


any ideas? I'm probably gonna try and find a replacement fan, but I'm still worried about the constant restarting of comp...

At this point what will happen:

I turn on computer, get that grinding type of noise that I believe is coming from my hsf's fan, everything in bios will load as normal, it'll get to the part where it is about to load windows and it'll say

verify dmi pooling and I guess sometimes it'll go through that others it won't, it'll just restart at some point right thereish.


help :0

 

[johnjkr1]

Check the other verify DMI pool data post that just went up, I went through a long explanation about it. You might want to consider running the diagnostic on your hard drives, just in case it isnt a fan making the grinding noise. It might be why you keep losing your stripe. It is easy to tell if the fan is grinding, open the case, wait for the noise, then just stop the fan. That should help narrow things down a bit.

 

[rocadelpunk]

thanks. will do.

 

[rocadelpunk]

hmm things have gone from strange to I dunno what.


Well I started testing out what was making that noise...turns out to be the videocard fan...yah I dunno why. So I unplug the fan (radeon 9600pro) and the grinding noise stops..but the computer still randomly restarts after it reaches the veryfying dmi data pool.

I happen to be looking at back of computer and I notice that part of the ps/2 cable for my keyboard broke off and is stuck in the ps/2 port...so I remove that and still the random rebooting occurs.


It has happened a couple times where (like after I reset bios to load/safe defaults) that it says sucess to veryfying dmi pool and that the escd was updated, but it still randomly restarts.


which makes me believe that It is still something for the hardrive

Any opinions? I dunno how I'm gonna do the diagnostic stuff b/c I don't have a floppy drive. : (

 

[johnjkr1]

Using a hard drive diagnostic would help quite a bit. You could make a bootable cd, but that's a hassle. Can your pc boot off a cd, if you set it to boot from cdrom? If that works, check and see if you have any partitions left on your hard drive. If you do, try to repair them.

 

[DanZee]

Specs please.