HELP. New PC been ok now not

[JSW]

Hi

New PC,
XP2600+, MSI KT4V M/B, 512mB Crucial Ram, Leadtek Winfast AGP 64MB Graphics
Card, 120GB H/D.

Been fine for 2 days, built it Wednesday, came to move it across to my desk
tonight and it would not boot up when I had moved it.
I can turn it on but no signal to monitor, if I leave it on it makes no
beeps and the keyboard led's don't come on.
How can I find out what is causing the problem.

Help!!!!

John

 

[AJ]

Hi

New PC,
XP2600+, MSI KT4V M/B, 512mB Crucial Ram, Leadtek Winfast AGP 64MB Graphics
Card, 120GB H/D.

Been fine for 2 days, built it Wednesday, came to move it across to my desk
tonight and it would not boot up when I had moved it.
I can turn it on but no signal to monitor, if I leave it on it makes no
beeps and the keyboard led's don't come on.
How can I find out what is causing the problem.

Help!!!!

John

Tap F5 or F8 at start up to see if it will boot in Safe Mode. If so I
would delete the graphics card in Device Manager and reboot. Once back
on you can download new card drivers since you can log onto the web.

If it won't start in Safe Mode read the manual on how to reset the
BIOS to defaults. You will have to unplug the PC, remove the battery,
and short two pins for ten seconds. Put the battery back, plug in, and
reboot.

 

[JSW]

Right here goes:-

I tried reseting Bios, no change.
Kept turning it on and off, again no change.
Decided to plug the memory into a different slot, tried this a few times and
then it started to boot up, but only got as far as asking me if I wanted
safe mode. No matter what I chose at this screen it kept rebooting and
coming up with a screen full of "Bridge unkown device" in 2 columns on all
the screen and then back to safe mode option screen.
I then turned pc on with no memory and pc kept beeping.
I put memory back in and it has now booted up ok.
I have got it still turned on on the living room table, what can I do whilst
its on to possible find what is causing it?
Is it faulty memory? or the mother brd?

Help!!!

John

 

[AJ]

Right here goes:-

I tried reseting Bios, no change.
Kept turning it on and off, again no change.
Decided to plug the memory into a different slot, tried this a few times and
then it started to boot up, but only got as far as asking me if I wanted
safe mode. No matter what I chose at this screen it kept rebooting and
coming up with a screen full of "Bridge unkown device" in 2 columns on all
the screen and then back to safe mode option screen.
I then turned pc on with no memory and pc kept beeping.
I put memory back in and it has now booted up ok.
I have got it still turned on on the living room table, what can I do whilst
its on to possible find what is causing it?
Is it faulty memory? or the mother brd?

Help!!!

John

Sounds like faulty RAM. I'd go to the store and get another stick and
try that. Different brand.

 

[Eliezer Guzman]

Sounds like faulty RAM. I'd go to the store and get another stick and
try that. Different brand.

I would also agree that it could be the RAM but without any hardware
input this would be somewhat difficult to determine. I had a similar
problem with my 'motherboard', tried everything to get it back up and
running RAM, exchanged video adapters, in the end the only thing I did
not really attempt to change was the processor, this would be my
undoing. I ordered a new motherboard, thinking that this was the de
facto cause of the problem, and lo and behold when I plugged eveything
back in, nothing. The problem was with the processor and not the
motherboard. The moral of the story is if you are troubleshooting,
troubleshoot the right way and try to test as many components as
possible before making a hasty determination on what could actually be
wrong. In your case, in addition to checking the RAM make sure you
chaeck that the processor was indeed installed correctly, if the
processor was mismounted this can cause the processor to function
incorrectly or even to burn out. Usually, on a RAM error a motherboard
with a working processor will output a series of beeps, and from your
story this is not the case.

 

[JAD]

JSW did you load the drivers for the Mainboard from the CD or did you let windows load what it wanted?

I saw this same problem elsewhere on this NG