PC freezes and won't reboot
adarryl
No Man Stands So Tall As When He Stoops To Help a Child. Icrontian
I am stuck on this one and need some guidance. I have a P4, WinXP machine with an Asus P4P800SE mobo, 2.8C processor stock, 1 gb of Corsair XMS PC3200, an 80gig WD HD, FD and two opticals: a Lite-on CDRW and an LG DVD ROM. All drives are IDE. When a disk is placed in either the CDRW or the DVD, the PC freezes and has to be hard rebooted. However, it won't boot to Windows after that. It displays the ASUS splash screen with a notation to press DEL to enter setup. It stays frozen at that point and won't respond. It remains that way even after a cold reboot though after a time or two I can get in the BIOS. I replaced the CMOS battery when it did this last week but obviously, that wasn't the fix. I also used a simple power supply tester and the PS was read as good to go. Any help troubleshooting this would be appreciated. THX!
P.S. I don't think this has anything to do with it, but I just recently installed a modem in this box. Does this sound like the mobo is going down?
P.S. I don't think this has anything to do with it, but I just recently installed a modem in this box. Does this sound like the mobo is going down?
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The above was directed at a rogue poster who has since been removed
Apoligises to adarryl
However, as to the original post, that's f'ing weird.
As far as my original post goes, I am still having the problem. Once a week or more, the PC fails to boot up and halts on the ASUS AI screen saying, "Overclocking failed; press DEL to enter setup." ONLY the sys is NOT overclocked. If I press DEL, the sys freezes and does nothing. I can reset the CMOS, reboot, enter settings but then the cycle starts again in a few days. A google search suggest others who have had this issue believe it to be the power supply. WTH? I haven't changed it out but suppose I will in the next few days. In the mean time, if any of you have any ideas here, I am all ears.
BTW, it would sure clean up this thread if a mod would enter something here that makes it clear that the other posters (YAD, Kentigern and Thrax) are not directing their remarks to me but to the ninnyhammer who crapped my thread in the first place!!!
Do you have a spare cable you can swop with - just in case its the cable.
Try taking one drive off (then swapping) to see if one of the drives is the problem.
Make sure the cable hasn't come loose from the board