[Found The Problem]HELP - My puter is dead, please help me diagnose

[Spoon]

Today I upgraded from a 300watt PS and athlon 1.2 to a antec 400watt and xp1800. Got everything in and booted up.

cpu reads at the right speed, and all the voltage readings look fine in the bios, boot continues and gets to the xp bootscreen and then the computer reboots. It goes through the cycles again and instead of rebooting scandisk opens up and freezes during the countdown.

Soooo, I fdisk the drive and go to reinstall xp but it freezes at various stages of the beginning of the install. mainly checking the disk, and transferring the setupp.ini file.

Soooo, I then think that my new barracuda is bad and try an old IBM which proceeds to do the same thing.

I have to go to work now but want some insite on what to try next.

What I've done already
HDD change
IDE cable shange
CDROM change

tonight Im planning on trying the old PS to see if the new one is bad in some way.

I'm also concerned that the mobo could have been damaged, I use a 8045 and the standoff's came loose when I removed the HS, the is one capaciter that rests close to the HS.

If it is the MOBO do I need to send it to epox or newegg for rma, it was bought about 8 months ago

Thanks and please give all input you have

Further system specs are below, system in question is MOYA

Spoon

 

[Insidious]

I would have suspected the HD too. Since that didn't turn out to be it..... I'd try the PSU swap first

(just because it is so easy)

Other things to try might be:

try using the other IDE connector (be sure your BIOS is set up for auto detection of IDE drives)

-if it works now, you have a bad MoBo

double check MoBo installation (possible shorting to case of a trace somewhere...)

-look for any debris or screw heads/washers touching a trace on the board or signs
of scratched traces where case standoffs might have touched on the bottom by accident

look at your CPU temperature in BIOS... is it ok? (possible oops on the HSF install)

-if you aren't getting good contact between the CPU and heatsink, that athy would heat up
very quickly and cause "wierd" operation

srry I can't be more help.... Good luck!

 

[Operandi]

What Insidious said....

Also check to make sure you have the latest bios for your Epox.

Good luck

 

[Crassus]

are there jumpers on the mobo to change from TBird to XP?
Try going back to the TBird and see if again works allright.

 

[Insidious]

n/m....

 

[Spoon]

Thanks for all the replies, I'm beginning to think that the mobo is toast. I've tried the other IDE connector , and also tried the old PS (that as interesting, you could hear the thing srainning to keep up)

I'm now pulling everything out again andreinstalling it to see if I might have missed something.


Any other ideas appreciated




Also could the 1800 cause this, it boots fine and the temp and voltage readings in the bios are fine
thanks

 

[HappyPuppy]

"are there jumpers on the mobo to change from TBird to XP?"

Huh?

 

[Spoon]

It's so nice to find out that Im not crazy, I read over on amdmb that there are others with the same problems with this board

off to reinstall the 1.2 until I can get a new board

 

[Spoon]

That was it, suppossably there is a problem with older versions of the 8k7a and the sse of the xp

Anyone know whats the best deal on a KT266A

 

[HouRman]

I use pricewatch.com if I want some quick quotes