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Lessons learned...

Chooie

Chooie

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I just moved my PC from my room to the kitchen for the LAN party I'm having tomorrow, and when I went to boot up, it showed the Video bios (as usual), the splash screen, then the PCI device listing... then rebooted. It has been doing this constantly for the past 5 minutes! Nothing is overclocked in my system (An Athlon 650 on a Biostar M7MKA, Voodoo 5 5500AGP, 256 MB PC-100), and I had absolutely NO trouble earlier today when I was running it upstairs. Does anyone know about a fix for this? ANY help is greatly appreciated!!

-Chooie
 
I turn it on, and it does this. Sometimes it wont even let me into the bios setup. I tried resetting the defaults in the bios (take out my tweaks), nothing. Tried pulling sound and nic, nothing. i'm going nuts!
 
Hmmm... unplug some of kicthen appliences, sounds funny but the kitchen's breaker is the most used in a house, and uses the most power, it may just not be getting enough.
 
it doesn't even get that far half the time. I have yet to see it even *try* to load windows. I'll try that tho. Anyone else have any suggestions?

Trinitron, I have it plugged into my UPS too, so I don't think that's it. But, it's worth a shot.
 
It's gotten worse... I see the Voodoo5 5500 bios, then the Biostar splash screen... then the Voodoo5 5500 bios, then the Biostar splash screen... Lather, rinse, repeat. wtf is going on... I'm gonna pull a stick of ram at a time, mebbe that's leading to some instability... i jus dont see how. goddammitall!!!
 
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD IT WORKS!


I pulled out the CPU card, reseated it and the memory, and b oom, right into win98. Sigh, goddamn 1 lb heatsink! It works tho, I'll give it that. Just a future warning to myself and anyone else who has a LARGE heatsink (such as a dual fan alpha or an Arctic Circle, aka Panflo Orb) to make SURE the cpu is firmly seated in the slot after moving it. I guess the trip around the house didn't help it all that much.
 
Motherboard, and very possible Power Supply Problem.

I had a couple STRANGE booting up problems on different motherboards, turned out to be bad PS.
 
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