Kabob
Lifer
OK, since my computer is currently out of commission for upgrading, I'm on my suitemate's computer, and he's been having problems with it. Here's the dealio with it:
He upgraded in the beginning of August and everything on his new computer ran fine until about a month ago, when junk started happening. Every time he hit the power button, the fans would start, but the rest of the computer would not. We figured it was a power supply issue (he was running his new system on his old 250w PSU) so we upgraded and still the problems remained.
His setup:
Athlon 64 3200+ NC
ASRock K8S8X (1.80 BIOS, we cannot get his floppy drive to work to upgrade this...)
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro
1x512MB Kingmax Value RAM
20GB Maxtor HD
Sound Blaster Live! Value (off his old Gateway system)
Thermaltake 420w PSU
We let one of my Computer Science professors take a look at it (he is hardware savvy too) and he seemed to get everything up and running. Once we go the system back to his room though, the sound did not work. We then put on the latest SB Live Value drivers. When we finished this and restarted, his computer would instantly restart as soon as it entered windows. So we restarted in safe mode and uninstalled all the sound drivers. He's had no luck since then. Also, once after he got the machine back, he hit the power and the same old problem occured; fans started but the rest of the computer didn't. That has not occured since that one time though. The Floppy drive now works, but it will not read any system boot disk I create. It keeps telling me I have a messed up I/O or something like that.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?? Does anyone know what caused this problwm in the first place??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
He upgraded in the beginning of August and everything on his new computer ran fine until about a month ago, when junk started happening. Every time he hit the power button, the fans would start, but the rest of the computer would not. We figured it was a power supply issue (he was running his new system on his old 250w PSU) so we upgraded and still the problems remained.
His setup:
Athlon 64 3200+ NC
ASRock K8S8X (1.80 BIOS, we cannot get his floppy drive to work to upgrade this...)
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro
1x512MB Kingmax Value RAM
20GB Maxtor HD
Sound Blaster Live! Value (off his old Gateway system)
Thermaltake 420w PSU
We let one of my Computer Science professors take a look at it (he is hardware savvy too) and he seemed to get everything up and running. Once we go the system back to his room though, the sound did not work. We then put on the latest SB Live Value drivers. When we finished this and restarted, his computer would instantly restart as soon as it entered windows. So we restarted in safe mode and uninstalled all the sound drivers. He's had no luck since then. Also, once after he got the machine back, he hit the power and the same old problem occured; fans started but the rest of the computer didn't. That has not occured since that one time though. The Floppy drive now works, but it will not read any system boot disk I create. It keeps telling me I have a messed up I/O or something like that.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem?? Does anyone know what caused this problwm in the first place??
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
