upgraded mine last week, now it keeps restarting.. [Archive]

View Full Version : upgraded mine last week, now it keeps restarting..

ozestretch

11-03-2004, 07:40 AM

:censored to my pc, have just installed new gigabyte p4 titan with 848p chipset, intel pentium4 2.8Ghzt 800 FSB, radeon ati 9800SE 128mb v/card, 120 GB SEAGATE IDE HDD, 1X 512MB ddr 400 and an atx 400w psu

I formated with xp pro sp1, installed drivers for m/board, ati card, during win update it just restarted like the reset button was pushed, during next start up it restarted and continues to, i have reformatted hdd reinstalling xp and stil it cont, have put a TNT 2 v/card to see if was error there, still happened. any ideas would be appreciated, btw, i have taken ddr out and reinstalled incase it was inserted correctly, still resetting ALL the time. ohhh and cleared cmos also, still doing it tho!
<added after posting> just noticed that cpu fan rpm is about 2800, is this slow???

Ioman

11-03-2004, 08:07 AM

It could be a couple things. Your memory and CPU. Download and try memtest86 to see if you have bad memory. Also try putting thermal grease on your CPU or a new heatsink and fan to see if that helps.

Most likely its one of those two problems. Your PSU sounds powerful enough for your system.

ozestretch

11-03-2004, 08:40 AM

have put the greese on, just ran that test, it had an unexpected interupt -halting

ECA

11-03-2004, 08:50 AM

yep, that could be it...COULD.
Re-seat them and check the pins on the board.

ozestretch

11-03-2004, 09:03 PM

the memory test doesnt work with my cpu, have located microsoft window test and am running pass2 of 11 at the moment, you would think if you buy new parts they would work..... but thats like expecting your woman to never change :S

will let you know what result is

ECA

11-03-2004, 09:23 PM

ozestretch

11-03-2004, 11:01 PM

thanks, my system has not restarted, but am concerned if there is a problem that it may get worse or cause other conflicts etc... my new tower will be delivered by friday, once i install all parts in there with extra cooling i will see iff it continues, maybe even borow a stick of ram... but my mates are tight and i will probably have to buy a 128mb just to see... but hey, another 128mb cant go astray!

<added> well just installing anti virus an.....restart. guess i best be getting a 2nd ram stick to find out. :censored

ozestretch

11-06-2004, 03:31 AM

:cheers my new tower was delivered, installed everything into the new tower and voila, it works. My guess is there was a short on the m/board.

Thanks for your help :cool:

ozestretch

11-07-2004, 11:33 PM

Another option...
right click "MY computer", system properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery, Setting, Under SYSTEM FAILURE, UNCHECK Auto reSTART.. for ANY FAILURES...

This is something thats been happening...

had 2 days no problems, now its started again.... what software can i run from floppy to do system test (covering cpu, harware conflicts etc...)???

ECA

11-08-2004, 01:30 AM

had 2 days no problems, now its started again.... what software can i run from floppy to do system test (covering cpu, harware conflicts etc...)???

the is NO software to TEST windows XP from DOS.
TEST hardware yes. And it isnt nice.
It takes a card insert, program, and tests all harware and ram, and is anywhere from $30- $120. And a tech manual to read the codes.

ozestretch

11-08-2004, 03:11 PM

thanks for help... even tried installing win98se..... still no good, time to send it off to the Dr

ozestretch

11-15-2004, 05:10 AM

turned out my cpu was playing up, replaced it with p4 3gig prescott and im gaming again,
btw, wasnt looking for software to test windows as i had already formatted hdd, was the system i wanted to test to see if cpu or motherboard was dead, $50 Australian later and i found out buy someone with software :S

happy gaming...