Boot Problems
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 3:51 pmHi, this is my first post here at pctechforums, but i've been dealing with computers for a while.
OK, so my computer was giving me a ton of C++ errors and programs were crashing left and right, so i eventually broke down and reformatted. I systematically went through and checked after installing each driver to see which one was screwing me up, and it ended up being an AMD 'driver' update from windows update. I thought this was weird anyways... I don't usually check for updates for my processor. Anywho, after everything seemingly calmed down, my computer started to restart randomly. I noticed that it was mainly under load, but not all the time. So I flashed the bios to the latest and no results. Somewhere along the line, the system decided that it wasn't going to boot! Now I'm completely stuck. The system powers on, and chipset fans spin, etc. but no POST. I did have this problem before... and got a replacement BIOS chip, but I'm hoping it isn't that again. So does anyone have any suggestions, besides getting yet another bios chip
? Thanks in advance
Rig:
Leadtek WinFast K7nCR18G PRO (nforce2 igp)
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+ (was o/c'd to 11*200 completely stable with stock hsf)
Maxtor 80 Gig 7200rpm Diamond Max Plus 9 (only 2 mb cache
)
one 512 meg module of Corsair XMS DDR400 RAM (rated CAS 2.5)
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Khypermeadia 48x CDRW drive (free with rebate... lol)
old IBM 2x DVD drive
all running(or ran...) windows xp sp1
OK, so my computer was giving me a ton of C++ errors and programs were crashing left and right, so i eventually broke down and reformatted. I systematically went through and checked after installing each driver to see which one was screwing me up, and it ended up being an AMD 'driver' update from windows update. I thought this was weird anyways... I don't usually check for updates for my processor. Anywho, after everything seemingly calmed down, my computer started to restart randomly. I noticed that it was mainly under load, but not all the time. So I flashed the bios to the latest and no results. Somewhere along the line, the system decided that it wasn't going to boot! Now I'm completely stuck. The system powers on, and chipset fans spin, etc. but no POST. I did have this problem before... and got a replacement BIOS chip, but I'm hoping it isn't that again. So does anyone have any suggestions, besides getting yet another bios chip
? Thanks in advance
Rig:
Leadtek WinFast K7nCR18G PRO (nforce2 igp)
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+ (was o/c'd to 11*200 completely stable with stock hsf)
Maxtor 80 Gig 7200rpm Diamond Max Plus 9 (only 2 mb cache
)
one 512 meg module of Corsair XMS DDR400 RAM (rated CAS 2.5)
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Khypermeadia 48x CDRW drive (free with rebate... lol)
old IBM 2x DVD drive
all running(or ran...) windows xp sp1
)