Hello all,
I've been have this problem for almost 6 months now. It started back in March of 2002 when my computer suddenly started exhibited some rather odd behaviors. I would turn the computer on and it would freeze at the Windows XP Pro load screen, to where I'd have to restart it to get it to successfully load into Windows. Once in Windows, the system ran fine, no crashes of freezes whatsoever. I should point out that I lived in a very crappy apartment that most-definately had horrible wiring, but nevertheless, I had a surge protector. Soon though, the computer would restart itself before finishing loading Windows XP Pro and would return to the BIOS. Sometimes this would happen up to 6 times before it loaded itself in Windows. Then, I would turn the computer on, and not get any video signal from the computer. I would have to hit the hard switch in the back on and off several times to finally load it into Windows. Again, once in Windows, everything ran fine. I could shutdown the computer after having been run for a long time, and then start it back up just fine. However, if the computer was left off for a long time, and I went to turn it on, it would exhibit these weird symptoms. Finally, it got so bad that I couldn't get the computer to boot into Windows at all. I went home that summer and put a new CPU, memory, and motherboard. That immediately fixed the problem, and I made sure to reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything to make sure. For about three months, my compute worked fine, without a flaw.
Soon, however, my comuter would restart while in Windows spontaneously, where the Blue Screen of Death would come up telling me that something went wrong and Windows had to be shut down. I made sure to get the lastest drivers and BIOS flashes of every single device on my computer, but the behavior still happened. I then downloaded the Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1, thinking it would solve my problem, but it has not. Then, last week, my computer is AGAIN exhibiting the problem it had about 5-6 months ago, where it refuses to boot-up correctly after having been shut off overnight. I don't know what inside my computer could be causing this problem. As I replaced the entire motherboard/CPU/memory combination, it must be another part of the computer that's corrupting some of the hardware. I must note though, that my computer didn't start having these problems AGAIN until I moved back to college and into another apartment (this apartment is much nicer than the old one, but probably has crappy wiring too). I don't think it is overheating, because the BIOS temperatures give norminal operating temperatures. Additionally, I upgraded cases this summer from a full-tower to a mid-tower aluminum Lian Li case with about 8 fans installed. Could this problem be due to my power supply? I have a generic 300-watt power supply which is fueling quite a large amount of devices inside my computer. Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? Thanks for your time. My system specs are listed below:
Pentium III 1.0 GHz
Lian Li 300-watt (generic) Silver Aluminum Case
Abit SA-6 Motherboard w/ i815ep Chipset
512 MB (2 x 256) PC133 SDRAM
Hercules GeForce 3 w/ 64 MBs
Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/ Live! Drive
D-Link DFE-530TX+
Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI Controller
Pinnacle System DV500+ Video Editing Card (Firewire, etc.)
Pioneer DVD-304 Slot Load SCSI DVD-ROM Drive
Plextor PlexWriter PX-W1210S 12x10x32 SCSI CD-RW Drive
Quantum Atlas IV 9.1 Gig SCSI Drive
Quantum Atlas IV 9.1 Gig SCSI Drive
Fujitsu 9.1 Gig SCSI Drive
Quantum Atlas 10k II 36.0 Gig SCSI Drive
Thanks again!
-Joshua
I've been have this problem for almost 6 months now. It started back in March of 2002 when my computer suddenly started exhibited some rather odd behaviors. I would turn the computer on and it would freeze at the Windows XP Pro load screen, to where I'd have to restart it to get it to successfully load into Windows. Once in Windows, the system ran fine, no crashes of freezes whatsoever. I should point out that I lived in a very crappy apartment that most-definately had horrible wiring, but nevertheless, I had a surge protector. Soon though, the computer would restart itself before finishing loading Windows XP Pro and would return to the BIOS. Sometimes this would happen up to 6 times before it loaded itself in Windows. Then, I would turn the computer on, and not get any video signal from the computer. I would have to hit the hard switch in the back on and off several times to finally load it into Windows. Again, once in Windows, everything ran fine. I could shutdown the computer after having been run for a long time, and then start it back up just fine. However, if the computer was left off for a long time, and I went to turn it on, it would exhibit these weird symptoms. Finally, it got so bad that I couldn't get the computer to boot into Windows at all. I went home that summer and put a new CPU, memory, and motherboard. That immediately fixed the problem, and I made sure to reformat the hard drive and reinstall everything to make sure. For about three months, my compute worked fine, without a flaw.
Soon, however, my comuter would restart while in Windows spontaneously, where the Blue Screen of Death would come up telling me that something went wrong and Windows had to be shut down. I made sure to get the lastest drivers and BIOS flashes of every single device on my computer, but the behavior still happened. I then downloaded the Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1, thinking it would solve my problem, but it has not. Then, last week, my computer is AGAIN exhibiting the problem it had about 5-6 months ago, where it refuses to boot-up correctly after having been shut off overnight. I don't know what inside my computer could be causing this problem. As I replaced the entire motherboard/CPU/memory combination, it must be another part of the computer that's corrupting some of the hardware. I must note though, that my computer didn't start having these problems AGAIN until I moved back to college and into another apartment (this apartment is much nicer than the old one, but probably has crappy wiring too). I don't think it is overheating, because the BIOS temperatures give norminal operating temperatures. Additionally, I upgraded cases this summer from a full-tower to a mid-tower aluminum Lian Li case with about 8 fans installed. Could this problem be due to my power supply? I have a generic 300-watt power supply which is fueling quite a large amount of devices inside my computer. Does anyone know what could be causing this problem? Thanks for your time. My system specs are listed below:
Pentium III 1.0 GHz
Lian Li 300-watt (generic) Silver Aluminum Case
Abit SA-6 Motherboard w/ i815ep Chipset
512 MB (2 x 256) PC133 SDRAM
Hercules GeForce 3 w/ 64 MBs
Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum w/ Live! Drive
D-Link DFE-530TX+
Adaptec AHA-2940U2W SCSI Controller
Pinnacle System DV500+ Video Editing Card (Firewire, etc.)
Pioneer DVD-304 Slot Load SCSI DVD-ROM Drive
Plextor PlexWriter PX-W1210S 12x10x32 SCSI CD-RW Drive
Quantum Atlas IV 9.1 Gig SCSI Drive
Quantum Atlas IV 9.1 Gig SCSI Drive
Fujitsu 9.1 Gig SCSI Drive
Quantum Atlas 10k II 36.0 Gig SCSI Drive
Thanks again!
-Joshua
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