[Tech] Hello Tech support???!

Birdy

Birdy

In Cryo Sleep
Its birdykins here!

My PC died! I cried a bit!

Here is the shiz..

I have a asus m2n4 sli mobo with a athlon xp 64 am2 4200+ processor

I have 1g ram

a geforece 7950 gt 512 graphics card

dvd rewriter

1 maxator 320 gb hard drive

and 1 maxator 160 gb hard drive

I have had a couple of times in the past come to turn on my pc and it wont turn on. I flick the power pack on and off and pull out the power lead a couple of times and eventualy it springs to life.

SO last friday im playing on wow and deicde to load up firefox and windows media playe like i normal do just before a raid. My pc went mad! all the programs chugged very badly and wudnt minimisie or maximise like the normaly do. When I managed to maximise wow it was chugging as well. So I rebooted and it seemed fine.

When I came to turn my pc on on saturday morning it had the same power problem and hung on the windows loading screen. I havent been able to make it go any further since. However this power problem is every time I power down my pc which is very frustrating.

I have tried a the repair console and run fixmbr and fixboot and a chkdsk for good measure. It wont start in safe mode.

I have tried another power supply and it still didnt work

I disconnected all non essential hardware inside to see if it would help the power....no joy

I have a second hard drive which I have tried to reinstal windows on and after the first stage of the instal at the reboot I get an error when it tries to load saying error loadsing operating system.

I am about to try putting my main hard drive in another pc to see if that works. Il let you know what happens.

Any help would be very welcome!
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

Junior Administrator
If it is a mobo error it could be somet like a sata or IDE port going or somet like that. But the fact that it is posting makes it unlikely that it is anything major in mobo CPU or any of your major bits. I'm assuming you've done all the basic stuff like checking all your cables and stuff. Make sure nothing is shorting mobo (although it may not post if that was the case).

Make sure heat sinks are all secure as if CPU cooler is not cooling it'll bum out pretty damn fast. Reboot BIOS can also often solve many a unknown problem.

Memtest it cos ya know that is always fun. Also is a very good way of checking that the PC is generally running.

Try a live knoppix disk in it, as if you can get knoppix going then chances are it's somet up with your HDD.


If you work through that hopefully you can get some new info that'll help diagnose the problem.
 
Ronin Storm

Ronin Storm

Administrator
Staff member
You're comfortable that the other PSU you tested was both fully functional and sufficiently powerful for your machine? If you hadn't said you'd already tested that then the symptoms you describe would be all things I'd attribute to a faulty power supply.

Have you tried the original PSU in another system? If it worked, I wonder if the mains supply to your computer is at fault: spiking, power drops, whatever. Those surge protection multi-way power blocks can be an issue, in my experience, though not universally.

What temperature is/was your CPU running at?

How long have you had this machine? How long since it started playing up?
 
Birdy

Birdy

In Cryo Sleep
RIGHT!!!

I have managed to make my new hard drive (the 160g one) install windows after some tweaking with the bios. I thinkn it was a seperate issue!

Now I have found that part of my main hard drvie is corrupedededed which is a bum, but qith the q-man's help he is gonna try and recover as much data as he can

At last check i still have this problem with my power supply. Think what I shall do is buy a new power supply anyway and see if that helps as they are much cheaper than replaceing any other part of the computer.

things are ok..... for now!
 
waterproofbob

waterproofbob

Junior Administrator
make sure you get a good quality supply. Not neccesarily a crazy high wattage one just from a respectable brand. The better quality the supply the more stable it will be. It's much important to get a good power supply than a high power one. A reasonable 400W is probably enough for what you have there tbh.

Also glad to hear you are making some head way with it.
 
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