computerpro3
Senior member
Hi,
So my relative brings over his pc...its a slot1 p3 600mhz, asus mobo (i440 chipset or something) 384mb pc100 memory (mixed brands 🙄 ), generic 350w psu, creative sound blaster 5.1, 30GB maxtor HD, and a 52x cd rom...
It won't boot up, so I eye his psu and pop in my pc power and cooling. It posts so I tell him to leave it over my hosue for the weekend so I can make sure the psu didn't take anything else out when it blew.
Well, apparantly it did. The problem is what. The machine won't boot up all the way into windows; it made it to the "loading windows 2000 screen" and locks up about half way through the progress indicator every time with a weird noise from the hard drive. So I figure the hard drive is shot.
So now I slap in a 10GB seagate (known good, its my primary drive atm due to my ibm deathstar taking a dump...) and try to install windows xp professional. It locks up during "setup is detecting your hardware configuration". I reboot and try again. this time it makes it to where it copies files to your hard drive but hard locks immediatly after that.
So I figure it may have fried the memory. With the psu and hard drive now known goods, I pop out all the memory and slap in one 128mb stick and run the latest and greatest memtest on it. I set memtest to loop test 5. It hard locks after 40 seconds. I power it down, slap in a different 128mb stick. Hard locks after 41 seconds. I try the third 128mb stick, locks after 35 seconds. Keep in mind there are no errors on any of the sticks before the lock. I tried all 3 dimm slots with the same result. Must not be the memory.
The cpu is cooled well by a new thermaltake golden orb cooler that I installed myself with good thermal paste. The temp never goes above 45C. I also used a can of compressed air to clean every single piece of dust out of the system.
So now with the memory, psu, and hard drive all known goods, I'm totally stumped. I'm really hoping its nothing serious as this relative is rather strapped for money right now.....
So as of now, this is how the pc looks:
600mhz p3
asus mobo with i440 chipset
384mb pc100 (known good)
10GB seagate hard drive (known good)
Pc Power and Cooling 510 Deluxe (known good obviously)
Sound Blaster 5.1 sound card
Any ideas at all? It just hard locks every single time around 40 seconds after being on and its beginning to really piss me off. I think I'm gonna try ripping out the sound card next. Thanks in advance.
So my relative brings over his pc...its a slot1 p3 600mhz, asus mobo (i440 chipset or something) 384mb pc100 memory (mixed brands 🙄 ), generic 350w psu, creative sound blaster 5.1, 30GB maxtor HD, and a 52x cd rom...
It won't boot up, so I eye his psu and pop in my pc power and cooling. It posts so I tell him to leave it over my hosue for the weekend so I can make sure the psu didn't take anything else out when it blew.
Well, apparantly it did. The problem is what. The machine won't boot up all the way into windows; it made it to the "loading windows 2000 screen" and locks up about half way through the progress indicator every time with a weird noise from the hard drive. So I figure the hard drive is shot.
So now I slap in a 10GB seagate (known good, its my primary drive atm due to my ibm deathstar taking a dump...) and try to install windows xp professional. It locks up during "setup is detecting your hardware configuration". I reboot and try again. this time it makes it to where it copies files to your hard drive but hard locks immediatly after that.
So I figure it may have fried the memory. With the psu and hard drive now known goods, I pop out all the memory and slap in one 128mb stick and run the latest and greatest memtest on it. I set memtest to loop test 5. It hard locks after 40 seconds. I power it down, slap in a different 128mb stick. Hard locks after 41 seconds. I try the third 128mb stick, locks after 35 seconds. Keep in mind there are no errors on any of the sticks before the lock. I tried all 3 dimm slots with the same result. Must not be the memory.
The cpu is cooled well by a new thermaltake golden orb cooler that I installed myself with good thermal paste. The temp never goes above 45C. I also used a can of compressed air to clean every single piece of dust out of the system.
So now with the memory, psu, and hard drive all known goods, I'm totally stumped. I'm really hoping its nothing serious as this relative is rather strapped for money right now.....
So as of now, this is how the pc looks:
600mhz p3
asus mobo with i440 chipset
384mb pc100 (known good)
10GB seagate hard drive (known good)
Pc Power and Cooling 510 Deluxe (known good obviously)
Sound Blaster 5.1 sound card
Any ideas at all? It just hard locks every single time around 40 seconds after being on and its beginning to really piss me off. I think I'm gonna try ripping out the sound card next. Thanks in advance.
