I've built 3 computer in the past year, two of them work flawlessly, another one I've never been able to work right. Here's the specs...
IC7-G
P4 2.8C
Gig HyperX
ATI All-in-Wonder 9600
DVD-Rom
DVD-Burner
2x120 gig Maxtor SATA HDDs (non-RAID)
I can never seem to get this computer working right. We'll get random restarts, we get the XP blue screen of death once a day or so, and I've NEVER gotten that on my other systems since I've gone to XP a few years ago. Here's the interesting one... Sometimes when I'm capturing video, the capturing will frezze and I'll get an XP taskbar balloon saying that there's an error writing to my D drive where the video is being captured, so I look on My computer and my D: drive (2nd SATA drive) is just gone. When I restart my computer, it's back, but I'll get that same error again. I'll get other random errors as well, like it won't find XP to boot into sometimes and if I just restart the system, it'll go fine. One install of XP the desktop icons were all weird looking.
I was thinking the video card might be part of the problem, so I swapped out the 9600 AIW for a 9600 AIW in another computer, turned the system on and... blackness. Made sure all the VGA connections were made and still... nothing. I don't think the computer is posting becuase I have the sound hooked up and there is no XP intro sound, I also have a floppy boot disk in there and it's not booting to the floppy either. I reset the CMOS and still... nothing.
That 9600 card I thought there might be a problem with works fine in my other computer, so I know it's not that. It's not the Hard drives becuase I've used both of them as my boot drive with numerous installations of XP and I still get errors. I don't think it is the RAM becuase it's quality ram and I think I ran MEMTester on it with no errors weeks ago. Occassionally you see people on here saying power supplies can cause problems, but that likely isn't the case because it is an Antec True480, an excellent PSU.
So we're left with the motherboard. I'm about to RMA it to ABIT (How are ABIT's RMAs by the way?) because that's the only thing I can think of that could be causing these problems. Any ideas, help, suggestions would be great cause I'm just lost right now. Grrrr
IC7-G
P4 2.8C
Gig HyperX
ATI All-in-Wonder 9600
DVD-Rom
DVD-Burner
2x120 gig Maxtor SATA HDDs (non-RAID)
I can never seem to get this computer working right. We'll get random restarts, we get the XP blue screen of death once a day or so, and I've NEVER gotten that on my other systems since I've gone to XP a few years ago. Here's the interesting one... Sometimes when I'm capturing video, the capturing will frezze and I'll get an XP taskbar balloon saying that there's an error writing to my D drive where the video is being captured, so I look on My computer and my D: drive (2nd SATA drive) is just gone. When I restart my computer, it's back, but I'll get that same error again. I'll get other random errors as well, like it won't find XP to boot into sometimes and if I just restart the system, it'll go fine. One install of XP the desktop icons were all weird looking.
I was thinking the video card might be part of the problem, so I swapped out the 9600 AIW for a 9600 AIW in another computer, turned the system on and... blackness. Made sure all the VGA connections were made and still... nothing. I don't think the computer is posting becuase I have the sound hooked up and there is no XP intro sound, I also have a floppy boot disk in there and it's not booting to the floppy either. I reset the CMOS and still... nothing.
That 9600 card I thought there might be a problem with works fine in my other computer, so I know it's not that. It's not the Hard drives becuase I've used both of them as my boot drive with numerous installations of XP and I still get errors. I don't think it is the RAM becuase it's quality ram and I think I ran MEMTester on it with no errors weeks ago. Occassionally you see people on here saying power supplies can cause problems, but that likely isn't the case because it is an Antec True480, an excellent PSU.
So we're left with the motherboard. I'm about to RMA it to ABIT (How are ABIT's RMAs by the way?) because that's the only thing I can think of that could be causing these problems. Any ideas, help, suggestions would be great cause I'm just lost right now. Grrrr
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