Lessons learned...

[Chooie]

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

 

[Av]

What have u tried ??

 

[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!

 

[Av]

Have u tried dissconnecting ur Primary drive and trying to boot from floppy or CD??

 

[HannibalX]

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.

 

[Chooie]

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.

 

[HannibalX]

Move it to another room, and if it boots fine, then you know it's a power problem.

 

[Av]

Keep us posted

 

[Chooie]

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!!!

 

[Chooie]

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.

 

[utopia]

hmm, you say its not overclocked? That might be your problem J/K

 

[RSI]

lol@utopia

-RSI

 

[HouRman]

Yep, you gotta treat computers like Michelobe, hehe j/k

 

[lupin]

Motherboard, and very possible Power Supply Problem.

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

 

[Chooie]

I wonder if my problems in this thread are related to the current ones I am facing here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=196762