Compy will not restart.

[Guest]

Noticed my XP Pro compy was getting sluggish, with some progs taking a while
to start, so I decided to restart my compy.

It didn't restart. It hung up on the bios loading page, showing all my
hardware masters and slaves. This screen has a few options for loading
different bios features, but it doesnt respond either.

This isn't the first time it's done this. It is the second, and both only
occured recently. The other time, I just left it turned off for a few hours
then it restarted with no problems. I'm still letting it sit this time.

I know its not a heating issue. I have alot of fans, and its only a athlon
2100+. I have a pretty big fan on the cpu anyway, and the last time i
checked, my system has an average temp of ~37 C, cpu at ~48 C.

I recently put some new hardware inside and the timeframe is right for that
being the cause. I installed a generic pci ide controller card, a 3.5 inch
"Dash kit" which plugs into my front audio pinset and my front usb pinset,
and a 200gb Western Digital HDD. The new HDD is plugged into the new card. My
motherboard is a msi k74v 6712.

As you can imagine, i need to esolve this asap. I will unplug the controller
card to see if that helps, and report back.

As always, any help is appreciated.

Much love!

 

[WTC]

Have you ever check your ratings on your PSU??
Like the amps on the 5V, 3.3V, and 12V rails and of course your wattage.

 

[zeretul]

I had always assumed that computer power supplys were standardized. I
have a 650w psu, and this problem has been occuring recently, within a
couple weeks, and i've had the psu for about a month.

I'll open it up and take a look at the ratings, but what am I looking
for? Amperage?

BTW- I took out the controller card, which is a "Silicon Image SiI 0680
ATA/133 controller", and it started up no problem. I put the card back
in and it started up without a problem. I think its either the card, or
the fact it was off for like 3-4 hours that allowed it to be restarted.

 

[WTC]

You should post here - hardware newsgroup

news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

I had always assumed that computer power supplys were standardized. I
have a 650w psu, and this problem has been occuring recently, within a
couple weeks, and i've had the psu for about a month.

I'll open it up and take a look at the ratings, but what am I looking
for? Amperage?

BTW- I took out the controller card, which is a "Silicon Image SiI
0680 ATA/133 controller", and it started up no problem. I put the
card back in and it started up without a problem. I think its either
the card, or the fact it was off for like 3-4 hours that allowed it
to be restarted.

You may very well *THINK* you have a 650W PSU, but how much did you pay for
that '650W' PSU? A generic (no-brand) 'pound store' 650W PSU, will not
perform anything like a known brand (and by known brand I mean OCZ, Antec,
Sparkle, Enermax, Tagan, etc). I have a 550W Tagan supply in my system -
plenty of juice for what I have now, and if I plan to upgrade in th future.
No, it wasn't cheap (£75 inc VAT) but anyone who stuffs their case full of
expensive kit and then spends £10 on a PSU is asking for trouble - a generic
PSU will output probably half ) (or even less) of its advertised rate -
therefore you'll be very lucky (if that is a junk unit) if it's outputting
325W. For a junk store PSU to run at 650W it would have to be rated 1.3KW!

I reckon you have a crappy PSU and it's only capable of pulling down
275-300W max.

Suggest you post the problem to alt.comp.hardware (which you should find on
your ISP's news server). This isn't a Windows issue and, therefore, should
*NOT* be posted the Windows XP hardware group, which is for compatibility
and driver issues with hardware - your issue has nothing whatsoever to do
with the operating system as it occurs before it even loads.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

You should post here - hardware newsgroup

news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

No, he should not. This isn't a Windows issue and, therefore, should *NOT*
be posted the Windows XP hardware group, which is for compatibility and
driver issues with hardware - your issue has nothing whatsoever to do with
the operating system as it occurs before it even loads.