if it's restarting just as the boot loader starts up put your winders XP CD in, and restart go into the setup for windows XP, run the repair installtion not the normal repair option this will allow...

please try reseting the Cmos then turning it back on

when you do the Ctrl alt delete, go to the run option and type in explorer this should bring up your start menu and icons i do believe? then if that works

open the file win.ini...

is the noise coming from your new fan? is it hiting anything? if so move it, if not take out out, you will want to either go into the bios settings and disable cmos guardian, or just do a cmos reset

u may want to leave mouse in for a while once it loads upto log in screen for usb mouse drivers to install may take upto a minute
(you wont see it happening)

also ur sure u put keyboard in right...

hmm, this could be a motherboard problem, try taking battey out, hooking it up to the mains, and then turning the power button on at the same time as the power switch... it may work

haha no probs, £5 aint bad for that stuff!

it's the belated y2k3 bug :p

Atleast it's another fine puzzle solved by the Daniweb forum members!

ok these beeps people are called post errors

a:how many beeps? and how long are they?
b: what bios is it using?

it could be a codec thing, try reinstalling mp3/wma/divx/xvid codecs? what media payer is is playing in

nope no one did he osted the same thread in the DOS windows section

Malkcontent did you have windows XP on it before or maybe using the FAT32 file system... this would explain it?

why not use windows repair? works in these situations..

he was just saying it could blow your socket... what is worse is that you can buy IDE drive caddies that allow hot swapping..even though this isn't a good idea they still sell the product!!!

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Er, just a new keyboard may have worked, as in your bios it probably has hault on keybaord error

OK pc's are easier than they once were, you ever heard of an IRQ or AT puckdropper? these days it's all plug and play which is nice.

things to remember, TAKE your TIME make sure you have...

Again this acctually is most likely your mobo, try replacing it.. occasional booters are normally down to mobo

i've had this problem, or rather my bro's pc did you'll find you have to replace the mobo, i expect, so you may aswell do that, instead of buying new stuff to go on it to see if that fixes it

GLHF

also don't mean so sound like a moaning old so and so but



^^ i laugh at this seeing as there isn't a performance gain out of 64bit CPU's yet, and i bet my quad Xeon server at work pwned it...

is it jsut with the headphones?? it could also be a loose power connector, and everytime you touch it you knock it abit? but if i were you i'd check the cabelling

Drive letter B is also reserved for floppy, and i 'think' h: in DOS etc is reserved for high memory

you may want to put the CD-rom driver disk in and install the drivers for it.

did you reseat them all in the same places? if you didn't you'll have IRQ issues, which you will need to have a look at to fix, and since when did they make an ATX 486?? the first ATX's were p133's...

Basically it's either a hardware or software or Both limitaton it's not broken the following explains all




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so the lights are on and no ones at home?? does it beep at you? is the monitor plugged in?


you sure you have put the CMOS jumper in correctly?

lots of case fans doesn't make that much difference, i think it could be your gfx card overheating what make is it? is it the winfast Twin turbo cooler? if so that could be the problem as the twin...

when it's on all the time you have connected the floppy cable incorrectly, try turning it upside down, if that doesn't work put it back to orig and move the mobo header end round

is the third channel the RAID channel? what motherboard?

try taking power switch out, and using a screwdriver to short the on button pins (DO THIS VERY CAREFULLY AND LET GO IF IT STARTS OR MORE THAN A SECOND)

have you acctually plugged both of the...

oh you have posted it in 2 different section GO Look at the answer i gave you in your other post........ :@:@:@:@:@:@:@:@ it has a whole load of stuff

[NOTE]this jumper is normally right next ot the battery

is the sound ALSO frezzing or is it looping or does it carry on?

Also did some one delete my previous post?

If the drive is using FAT instead of FAT32 then you'll find it's the File system limit FAT cannot Support more than 2.1GB

is the cmos battery dead?

is there a CMOS reset jumper? if so try resetting it(google for procedure) it could be a psu problem.. make sure the psu/battery header is pushed in firmly.. hope this...

mm module? is this anything to do with the cable modem? if mm module is part of windows the best thing to do is to use windows repair and run the windows repair installation

yea, just dont use the roll back, otherwise it will isntall wrong drivers for wrong hardware and will make a mess if you do get it working... you're lucky it even got into windows, it quite often gts...

ok then, so you are ruling out any possibility of a worm causing it?

indeed tallcool1 just becuase AMD's run hotter, doesn't mean that they will overheat more.

okay, which well known virus is known to send itself over the net, and cause random restarts? Why it's the blaster worm, possible cause?

Ah Ha, youre mobo is screwed!! simple as that, my bros pc had that.

er if it's not always at the same point, it could be an under powered PSU, i had that problem once.