I've been pulling my hair out over the following problem, and I'm hoping someone can help me out (with the problem, not the hair):
Several weeks ago, I started having problems with a Win98SE system (that had worked fine for a year up till now). Every once in a while, seemingly at random, the system would reboot while running windows. No error message, no blue screen, just a reboot as if the plug had been pulled. This would only happen under windows, and only seemed to occur when the system was in use. For example, I ran a DOS burn-in, memory check program for 6 hours with no problems.
To make a very long and ugly story short, I tried everything (removing all peripherals, changing the memory [crucial memory used], changing from an AGP video card to a PCI one, virus checks, trojan checks, etc.). None of this made any difference. The system would still randomly reboot.
Finally, I went ahead and reformatted the HD, and began to reinstall windows. Now, here's the really weird part...Windows installed up to the point where it runs windows for the first time. After it starts running windows, but before it gets to showing the icons on the desktop, it reboots again. This happens every time, and so windows is never able to fully load. HOWEVER, windows will start normally in safe mode!
Does this sound like a bad motherboard problem???
System specs are:
Abit BE6-II 2.0 motherboard
P3, 700mHz
300w SPI power supply
IBM Deskstar 20GB, Ultra 66, 7200 RPM
Asus V6800 (AGP) or ATI xpert@home (PCI) video
512 MB crucial memory
Any help would be very much appreciated!
- Peter
Several weeks ago, I started having problems with a Win98SE system (that had worked fine for a year up till now). Every once in a while, seemingly at random, the system would reboot while running windows. No error message, no blue screen, just a reboot as if the plug had been pulled. This would only happen under windows, and only seemed to occur when the system was in use. For example, I ran a DOS burn-in, memory check program for 6 hours with no problems.
To make a very long and ugly story short, I tried everything (removing all peripherals, changing the memory [crucial memory used], changing from an AGP video card to a PCI one, virus checks, trojan checks, etc.). None of this made any difference. The system would still randomly reboot.
Finally, I went ahead and reformatted the HD, and began to reinstall windows. Now, here's the really weird part...Windows installed up to the point where it runs windows for the first time. After it starts running windows, but before it gets to showing the icons on the desktop, it reboots again. This happens every time, and so windows is never able to fully load. HOWEVER, windows will start normally in safe mode!
Does this sound like a bad motherboard problem???
System specs are:
Abit BE6-II 2.0 motherboard
P3, 700mHz
300w SPI power supply
IBM Deskstar 20GB, Ultra 66, 7200 RPM
Asus V6800 (AGP) or ATI xpert@home (PCI) video
512 MB crucial memory
Any help would be very much appreciated!
- Peter
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