videobruce
Golden Member
I believe it is the processor. I looked at it and it looks as it was overheated because of the material that was used in place of thermal paste.
Symtoms:
As soon as the power switch on the PS is turned on the system boots without pushing the button on the front of the case.
The system starts to boot then stops with a long beep every 5 seconds.
When it does get past all of this it never completely loads the destop. Hangs at the wallpaper stage. Scandisk hangs if it runs.
What I've done:
Swapped PSU's
Swapped memory sockets and sticks
Unplugged all cables to all drives
Removed all cards except AGP
Reset the Bios by jumper
The system was butched by some kid by swapping cards around and loading a bunch of games. Device Manager was a mess in Safe Mode (when I could get to it) with all the stuff that was in there.
I have run into something like this before where all this weird stuff starts happening, though never a problem booting to the destop.
I have cleaned and reapplied paste to the HSF.
Before I run out and get another processor is ther anything else I could do? I haven't checked for virus's since I haven't gotten that far other than safe mode, but with a long beep even before the video card fires, I doubt it is a virus.
This is a KT133 MB with a Athlon 850 running ME (which I will change to 2k when this is settled).
Symtoms:
As soon as the power switch on the PS is turned on the system boots without pushing the button on the front of the case.
The system starts to boot then stops with a long beep every 5 seconds.
When it does get past all of this it never completely loads the destop. Hangs at the wallpaper stage. Scandisk hangs if it runs.
What I've done:
Swapped PSU's
Swapped memory sockets and sticks
Unplugged all cables to all drives
Removed all cards except AGP
Reset the Bios by jumper
The system was butched by some kid by swapping cards around and loading a bunch of games. Device Manager was a mess in Safe Mode (when I could get to it) with all the stuff that was in there.
I have run into something like this before where all this weird stuff starts happening, though never a problem booting to the destop.
I have cleaned and reapplied paste to the HSF.
Before I run out and get another processor is ther anything else I could do? I haven't checked for virus's since I haven't gotten that far other than safe mode, but with a long beep even before the video card fires, I doubt it is a virus.
This is a KT133 MB with a Athlon 850 running ME (which I will change to 2k when this is settled).
