This is strange. Last week my puter packed up and wouldn't post. Second time it did that and last time a new heatsink and fan for cpu did the trick after everything else had been tried and i was about to think cpu and/or mobo had died.
Another non posting situation arose at the end of this week,but last night I took a final try and decided to replace the memory ( I had reseated it during previous week in trying to solve this ). I had a spare stick of 256 SDRAM 133 which norton Utilities had said had errors, but which still registered as the second stick ( ie 512 mbs ) when it was in situ.
Blow me, the computer booted straight away!! Great ! - it was a memory fault. I'll buy another stick soon .
Ha Ha - Today , 24 hours later in my flight sim session the computer froze- screen went black - and now it won't boot up!!!
I hope it is the memory finally given up the ghost and nothing else.
My mobo is a MSI 6340 PSU is 350 Enermax CPU is thunderbird 1000. Twice I have thought it was burnt out but it hasn't been the cpu.- and i'm sure it isn't this time !!
Is the MSI mobo prone to premature ( erring on the side of caution ??) shutdown??
Can the memory stick become "displaced " slightly ( thru' overheating?) and which a re seating would cure?
This is an edit update!!
I still can't get it to boot but upon connecting vid card, mouse etc prior to trying a boot, the last thing i plug in before using the switch to switch on, is the power plug, right? But now, when i put the power plug in the computer switches on WITHOUT me touching the switch on the front. It doesn't boot still!.
I switch off at the switch OK and i don't touch the switch again- Plug everything into the rack as described and the computer comes on again " on its own " so to speak!!
Any ideas please ?
Another non posting situation arose at the end of this week,but last night I took a final try and decided to replace the memory ( I had reseated it during previous week in trying to solve this ). I had a spare stick of 256 SDRAM 133 which norton Utilities had said had errors, but which still registered as the second stick ( ie 512 mbs ) when it was in situ.
Blow me, the computer booted straight away!! Great ! - it was a memory fault. I'll buy another stick soon .
Ha Ha - Today , 24 hours later in my flight sim session the computer froze- screen went black - and now it won't boot up!!!
I hope it is the memory finally given up the ghost and nothing else.
My mobo is a MSI 6340 PSU is 350 Enermax CPU is thunderbird 1000. Twice I have thought it was burnt out but it hasn't been the cpu.- and i'm sure it isn't this time !!
Is the MSI mobo prone to premature ( erring on the side of caution ??) shutdown??
Can the memory stick become "displaced " slightly ( thru' overheating?) and which a re seating would cure?
This is an edit update!!
I still can't get it to boot but upon connecting vid card, mouse etc prior to trying a boot, the last thing i plug in before using the switch to switch on, is the power plug, right? But now, when i put the power plug in the computer switches on WITHOUT me touching the switch on the front. It doesn't boot still!.
I switch off at the switch OK and i don't touch the switch again- Plug everything into the rack as described and the computer comes on again " on its own " so to speak!!
Any ideas please ?
