Hi,
one of my friends got a really big problem with his PC.
He got a Pentium III 733MHz cpu, with a supermarket motherboard
(intel i suppose, but nothing could say it). He got 256 MB (ram),
GeForce AGP video card and SoundBlaster Live PCI.
Here are the events, in chronological order:
1. First day: the computer runs good for 1 hour, and crashes.
The display is freezed. Nothing happens when we move the mouse
or press a key. Even the ctrl-alt-del combination doesn't work.
The only solution: the reset button...
2. Second day: the computer stops during the boot, not always
at the same time. Sometimes its during the ram check, sometimes
during the floppy and ide check, sometimes before the bios
display itself!
3. Third day: we try another time and the computer makes
a strange noise (electrical noise i think..). Since,
nothing happens when pressing the start button.
After observations of the cards, we have seen (between
events 2 and 3) that the the pb comes with the CPU fan
stop...
Between 2 and 3, we tryed to:
- unplug every peripheral cards (only video card left)
- exchange RAM with other from a good PC
- unplug CDROM IDE and floppy. Try to boot with hard disk
- plug only CDROM on Primary IDE, and try to boot on it
- unplug all IDE. Try to see at least bios running
- unplug video card and look at the cpu fan on start. Cpu
fan stop, so we concluded there was the pb.
We concluded that the motherboard or the CPU is the pb.
But now, how to see which is the pb? We don't have any
one of these in spare :-(.
What are u thinking about this problem? Are u agree with
my opinion or have u some other ideas?
Thanks
Nico
one of my friends got a really big problem with his PC.
He got a Pentium III 733MHz cpu, with a supermarket motherboard
(intel i suppose, but nothing could say it). He got 256 MB (ram),
GeForce AGP video card and SoundBlaster Live PCI.
Here are the events, in chronological order:
1. First day: the computer runs good for 1 hour, and crashes.
The display is freezed. Nothing happens when we move the mouse
or press a key. Even the ctrl-alt-del combination doesn't work.
The only solution: the reset button...
2. Second day: the computer stops during the boot, not always
at the same time. Sometimes its during the ram check, sometimes
during the floppy and ide check, sometimes before the bios
display itself!
3. Third day: we try another time and the computer makes
a strange noise (electrical noise i think..). Since,
nothing happens when pressing the start button.
After observations of the cards, we have seen (between
events 2 and 3) that the the pb comes with the CPU fan
stop...
Between 2 and 3, we tryed to:
- unplug every peripheral cards (only video card left)
- exchange RAM with other from a good PC
- unplug CDROM IDE and floppy. Try to boot with hard disk
- plug only CDROM on Primary IDE, and try to boot on it
- unplug all IDE. Try to see at least bios running
- unplug video card and look at the cpu fan on start. Cpu
fan stop, so we concluded there was the pb.
We concluded that the motherboard or the CPU is the pb.
But now, how to see which is the pb? We don't have any
one of these in spare :-(.
What are u thinking about this problem? Are u agree with
my opinion or have u some other ideas?
Thanks
Nico