A friend of mine is having a problem and I thought some of you guys might know what the problem is exactly,thanks for any help. Here is his post...
Please try and help me out here...
After my second hard drive kept uninstalling itself and wasnt being recognized by the BIOS or windows 50% of the time, i got a new IDE cable. I installed this and it seems to be working fine (but still too early to tell)
When i did this, i also cleaned out the computer... the video card, sound card and the fans.
After all this, i turned on my pc and all was good, i was on it for 6 hours playing games, watching videos on it, talking all sorts. Then my mouse started acting crazy.... it was stopping and starting, and didnt work everytime, so i rebooted and get this RED MESSAGE on the screen which said this...
Quote:
You have not connected the power extension cable to your radeon 9800 video card. Please refer to the "Getting started guide" for proper hardware installation
I went inside my pc twice and checked the cables etc, then it was working again and i thought nothing of it. I left it on overnight and my brother went on it in the morning. He signed in to his account and all was fine.
After about an hour on the computer, the mouse acted strange again, the same as last time.... mouse kept stopping and started. So i thought here we go again.
I rebooted and got the same red message. I checked the cables again, restarted and this time the BIOS screen came up saying in the advanced tab to the right in red writing
Quote:
During the last boot up, your system hung from an improper cpu speed setting. Your system is now working in safe mode. To optimize the system performance and reliability, make sure the cpu speed conforms to the specification of your CPU
(The CPU speed in the bios has always been 1667MHz and is right now.)
On the way to the exit tab in the BIOS, i have to pass the tab called BOOT. As i went to pass this BOOT tab, it hung for 5 seconds, while hanging it only displayed 2 of my boot devices, after the 5 seconds of hanging it then displayed all my boot devices and the Plug and play OS settings below. The hanging stopped and i could save and exit the BIOS.
Once i did this, i got this red message again about the extension cable. After rebooting 3 more times, and seeing the BIOS screen once more, windows loaded and i am now able to type this plee for help.
PLEASE help me, i am depending on your help to sort this problem. I am saving up to buy a AMD Athlon 3500, i cannot afford to keep sending it to the computer shop to have them look at it, its expensive.
Please try and help me out here...
After my second hard drive kept uninstalling itself and wasnt being recognized by the BIOS or windows 50% of the time, i got a new IDE cable. I installed this and it seems to be working fine (but still too early to tell)
When i did this, i also cleaned out the computer... the video card, sound card and the fans.
After all this, i turned on my pc and all was good, i was on it for 6 hours playing games, watching videos on it, talking all sorts. Then my mouse started acting crazy.... it was stopping and starting, and didnt work everytime, so i rebooted and get this RED MESSAGE on the screen which said this...
Quote:
You have not connected the power extension cable to your radeon 9800 video card. Please refer to the "Getting started guide" for proper hardware installation
I went inside my pc twice and checked the cables etc, then it was working again and i thought nothing of it. I left it on overnight and my brother went on it in the morning. He signed in to his account and all was fine.
After about an hour on the computer, the mouse acted strange again, the same as last time.... mouse kept stopping and started. So i thought here we go again.
I rebooted and got the same red message. I checked the cables again, restarted and this time the BIOS screen came up saying in the advanced tab to the right in red writing
Quote:
During the last boot up, your system hung from an improper cpu speed setting. Your system is now working in safe mode. To optimize the system performance and reliability, make sure the cpu speed conforms to the specification of your CPU
(The CPU speed in the bios has always been 1667MHz and is right now.)
On the way to the exit tab in the BIOS, i have to pass the tab called BOOT. As i went to pass this BOOT tab, it hung for 5 seconds, while hanging it only displayed 2 of my boot devices, after the 5 seconds of hanging it then displayed all my boot devices and the Plug and play OS settings below. The hanging stopped and i could save and exit the BIOS.
Once i did this, i got this red message again about the extension cable. After rebooting 3 more times, and seeing the BIOS screen once more, windows loaded and i am now able to type this plee for help.
PLEASE help me, i am depending on your help to sort this problem. I am saving up to buy a AMD Athlon 3500, i cannot afford to keep sending it to the computer shop to have them look at it, its expensive.
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