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Diagnose this hardware problem

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slunk

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A system of mine had been working perfectly fine for about 2.5 years before last week. It all started with a regular shutdown, but, instead of the computer shutting down, it went to a blank screen with a cursor flashing at the top left of the screen. Nothing gets the computer to shutdown other than flipping the UPS off. Then sometimes it doesn't even turn on until many tries and hours later. I thought it might be a power supply issue, so I replaced it. It worked for about two days before it started acting up again. Not much is done on the system....E-mail, Word and IE, and that's about it. AVG is kept up to date. It's a really simple system. Also, sometimes the keyboard does not work on bootup and will require a reboot to get it going. I've replaced the keyboard without success. Bad motherboard? Bad ram? I'll test the RAM later, but I'm starting to think it is most likely the motherboard.

Specs:
Asus A7S-vm
Duron 750 (not OCed)
128MB Crucial PC133
on-board video and audio
Win2000 SP4
 
Originally posted by: LiLithTecH
SP4.

It is probably the worse SERVICE Pak ever released by Microsoft.
And that is saying a lot.....
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Good to know... I just upgraded a laptop to SP4. Guess I could've held off.
 
I just replaced a 10 month old motherboard doing the same thing for a customer this week. Changed the power supply, worked for a day. After shutting down the system late that same day, it would never boot again, until I changed the motherboard. Without seeing your system, I'd bet that was it. Good luck!
 
Thanks. I'll test the RAM for the hell of it, but I'm betting it's the motherboard. Can anyone recommend a motherboard that will run the AMD 750 along with the PC133 RAM? I really don't need a new motherboard, RAM and processor, but I guess if it's only about $100 over I would go for it. What's a good nForce2 IGP motherboard?
 
If you didn't want to spend much, you could get something that would run (at max) a 1.2 Socket A processor. Something like the MSI k7t pro2 a perhaps. That motherboard is in a couple systems I built with duron 750's. They can be upgraded to Thunderbird 1.2's for very cheap.
 
I like the shuttle. Lots of features and little money. I built one for a friend very nice board. Just a note it has firewire onboard but doesn't include header if you want/need one
 
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