tom windmill
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| posted on 5/7/05 at 09:44 PM |
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WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MY PC
Hi,
I hope some brainbox can help!!
I have just built a brand new computer using a pentium 4, 775 socket and an abit motherboard and corsair 1024MB twinX XMS 5400 DDR2 RAM it was ok but
it now takes about 5 minutes to boot up and doesnt shut down properly and i can be in the middle of doing something and it will just restart it is
also very unstable and slow it doesnt even have hardly anything loaded on to it. also the cpu is not overclocked at all.
Its terrible i hope someone can please help!
Thanks Tom
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shades
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| posted on 5/7/05 at 09:49 PM |
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Is the memory making poper connections. Mine used to get the blue screen and reboot itself every five mins. Try re seating it?
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Hellfire
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| posted on 5/7/05 at 10:02 PM |
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When you say 'just' built it. How 'just' is 'just'? Have you plugged in any USB devices with no drivers -
that's a common fault. Or if you have onboard memory card slots have you left a card in? Update all drivers... take it from there.
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tks
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| posted on 5/7/05 at 10:25 PM |
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naahhhhh
then the system would be slow
and nowhere an reason for an restart
if memory contacts are bad than you create sparks en you blow up the crap in seconds...
you should look at simple things..
first tell us did it ever worked stable???and how long?
then you need to look at bios settings
like MHz of FSB and RAM etc..
also look at Temperatures
every thing connected??
is your power supply enough???
etc,,
etc..
its an hardware problem..
Tks
The above comments are always meant to be from the above persons perspective.
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James
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| posted on 6/7/05 at 10:41 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tks
if memory contacts are bad than you create sparks en you blow up the crap in seconds...
Don't agree actually- we even have to re-seat memory on servers sometimes and they're £7grand Compaq jobs that sit untouched in a cabinet
all day- it's not as if they're being moved around!
If you can't find a h/w problem I would consider slinging a different HDD in temporarily and chucking a new OS on it- just to see if it's
ok with a rebuild- that'll confirm if h/w or s/w problem!
Shouldn't take long either!
HTH,
James
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ChrisW
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| posted on 6/7/05 at 10:59 AM |
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Sounds to me like either a software problem (reinstall the OS to fix) or the CPU is overheating.
Chris
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jestre
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| posted on 6/7/05 at 01:01 PM |
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hmmm....got another PS?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 6/7/05 at 03:18 PM |
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Slow boot up makes me think operating system problem -- perhaps a virus or the wrong motherboard drivers are being loaded.
Suggest you try booting another operating system such as Knoppix from the cd drive if everything boots fine then you know it is a Windows problem of
some kind.
[Edited on 6/7/05 by britishtrident]
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Spyderman
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| posted on 6/7/05 at 03:20 PM |
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I would suggest CPU overheating as well!
I had similar problems and got round it by using heat transfer compound under heatsink and under clocking it slightly.
Would suggest the heat transfer stuff first with a bloody good heatsink.
Terry
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Peteff
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| posted on 6/7/05 at 04:49 PM |
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Scrape the chewing gum off the cooler and put some arctic silver on instead. Mine runs 10* cooler now and so does the wifes' which I rebuilt
last month.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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viatron
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| posted on 6/7/05 at 05:08 PM |
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1. Try disconnecting all your optical drives
2. Then remove all add in cards apart from VGA.
3. If no better check the PSU is man enough for the job.
4. You should be able to check approx cpu temp via the Bios "health monitoring" option.
5. Also check your Dram timings in the bios.
Mac
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JoelP
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| posted on 14/7/05 at 09:34 PM |
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and failing all that, i have a LARGE hammer available to borrow 
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