Boot Up Problems

GothicSatan187GothicSatan187 Carleton, Michigan
edited April 2004 in Hardware
I just bought a DFI motherboard, AMD 1200 processor, and other things to go with it. I have 2 HD's and i have had windows XP Pro on them both. I put them both in, and formatted one and reinstalled windows. it was running fine, i got to do some of the windows updates (all but SP1) and installed a couple games, well now it decides to restart whenever it feels like. i had to flash the BIOS when i got the board cuz it was corrupt. so now, i was doing to SP1 update when it decided to say :fu: and restart, and now it won't go past the xp loading screen. windows loads completely but when it trys to go to the login screen it restarts. i have been reading all the other posts to this problem and i have tried all things mentioned. Could i have a defected motherboard, processor? something? any help is appreciated!

Comments

  • verselloversello New
    edited April 2004
    What kind of power supply do you have? Chances are, if you don't know, or if you didn't buy a new power supply, you could have a faulty/cheap PSU that doesn't supply enough power.

    RAM can also be a possible cause for system restarts. If possible, try swapping it with some other RAM and see how things go.

    I doubt you have a defect processor, although the mobo's BIOS getting corrupt makes me wonder..
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    memtest86
  • GothicSatan187GothicSatan187 Carleton, Michigan
    edited April 2004
    I have a 450w power supply i got with the case when i bought it. i bought a brand new stick of ram, 512mb DDR 2100. if i had more ram or different ram, i would have tried that, but that is the only stick of DDR ram i have.
  • verselloversello New
    edited April 2004
    Try running memtest on it like Gnomewizard reccomended then.
  • GothicSatan187GothicSatan187 Carleton, Michigan
    edited April 2004
    and if memtest turns up nothing?
  • citrixmetacitrixmeta Montreal, Quebec Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    i would try to reinstall, i think ur OS got corrupt. :S
  • GothicSatan187GothicSatan187 Carleton, Michigan
    edited April 2004
    thanx! :thumbsup::D
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    run memtest firsttho just cause its new doesnt mean it cant be bad. if that turns up empty yea reinstall xp
  • GothicSatan187GothicSatan187 Carleton, Michigan
    edited April 2004
    Well i have an idea, i am going to install windows an a different hard drive, and see if that fixes the problem, if it does, then i think i might have a virus on the other hard drive. if it don't then i'm screwed.
  • MackanzMackanz
    edited April 2004
    Gothic,

    Which board is it? Lanparty B?
    Check which setting the harddrives is set to in the bios. Make sure it uses AUTO or LBA.
    Some bioses have another value at default which causes mayhem.
    If the system restarts out of nowhere, it's not either memory or cpu that's the problem. It sounds more like a IRQ allocation thing together with APIC in bios together with ACPI in XP (or any NT os). Basically, 2 or more peripherals uses the same adress on the mainboard, and some hardware doesn't like that. List your system fully with brands and all and we'll se what we can do. Also which multi and fsb you use together with the voltages you have set the mainboard to use. (vcore, memory voltage, chipset voltage)
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