sometimes not booting, and random restarts.

leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
edited January 2005 in Hardware
i have my other machine back at home after my sister have used it for the past couple month. She says it's broken now, so i'm here trying to fix it.

here is the spec

8rda+
2500+ barton
256mb pc3200 kingston valueram
400 watt Antec smart power
cd drive and hdd and the such

here is the problem, when i boot the system for the first time when i got it, i didnt work. So i switched the ram around and it booted. and it worked pretty fine. so i shut it down, and used memtest to see if the ram is good, and it turned out fine. So i just booted it back up and let it fold.

about 1 week later, the comp just random restarted on it's own. i tried to reboot it and it boots up and i looked, it lost the bios settings, so i went in the bios and put the old setting back. save and restart, but then it wouldn't boot. it was giving me C1 error, but sometimes it will boot and by the time it's loading windows, it will restart, and one time i got it into windows and it restarted just out of nowhere.

i'm here thinking it's either the RAM or the motherboard or the power supply.

what's your opinion??

Comments

  • madmatmadmat
    edited January 2005
    Have you checked the CMOS battery? If you've got another board laying about try swapping the batteries out and see if that fixes it, if not I'd suspect the PSU, what are the voltages?

    Is the ATX plug nice and tight in the socket? I found out mine's a bit loose, also an Antec PSU as well, when I bump it the PC powers off.

    Does it have PCI cards? If it does yank them all out and run it without them. If one is bad or going bad it can cause a PC to not boot/random reboot. If the PC begins acting propperly then replace the cards one at a time until it begins to fritz out again.

    I'm sure you know this but make sure to unplug the PSU before yanking PCI cards, the mobo still supplies power to the PCI bus even when the PC is powered down. This is for nifty features such as WOL, WOM, PCI USB cards and other stuff...pulling a PCI card from a PC that's "off" can still lead to a fried mobo, dead card or fried slot.

    Good luck man and I hope you get it figured out.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    i think it's the PSU, pulled it out, and saw couple pins on the ATX plug a bit brown, looked fried, lucky the mobo still works.

    i need a new power supply, and suggestions?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2005
    Anything by Antec. Don't let a dud scare you.
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited January 2005
    leishi85 wrote:
    i have my other machine back at home after my sister have used it for the past couple month. She says it's broken now, so i'm here trying to fix it.

    here is the spec

    8rda+
    2500+ barton
    256mb pc3200 kingston valueram
    400 watt Antec smart power
    cd drive and hdd and the such

    here is the problem, when i boot the system for the first time when i got it, i didnt work. So i switched the ram around and it booted. and it worked pretty fine. so i shut it down, and used memtest to see if the ram is good, and it turned out fine. So i just booted it back up and let it fold.

    about 1 week later, the comp just random restarted on it's own. i tried to reboot it and it boots up and i looked, it lost the bios settings, so i went in the bios and put the old setting back. save and restart, but then it wouldn't boot. it was giving me C1 error, but sometimes it will boot and by the time it's loading windows, it will restart, and one time i got it into windows and it restarted just out of nowhere.

    i'm here thinking it's either the RAM or the motherboard or the power supply.

    what's your opinion??
    I was having the same problem with a almost simmiler machine it has 512mb of ddr 333 kingston infinion chips

    turned out to be the ram i rmaed it and got back a better stick with winbond chips :)
    leishi85 wrote:
    i think it's the PSU, pulled it out, and saw couple pins on the ATX plug a bit brown, looked fried, lucky the mobo still works.

    i need a new power supply, and suggestions?

    Something by antec

    nice to see your problems solved :)
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