Wont rebood

[Guest]

This is my system: tinyurl.com/3577u5
I added another stick of 1 gig ram and a nvidia 7950 graphics card.

Runs perfect but if I reboot or restart I have to disconnect all the
peripherals and then plug them all back in.
The boot screen show the video card then the ram then the monitor looses its
signal. Dead.
Or, I get past that and the hard drive info and a whole bunch of stuff then
it stops and says "wrong disc inserted. remove disc and hit any key to
continue". Sometimes there is a disc in and sometimes not. But it doesn't
matter it wont continue hitting a key or not.
I have replace what I was led to believe was faulty ram. That was not the
problem. Oh, and I switched the monitor to see if it was its fault. Nope.
Can't even put in the XP cd to reformat.

At this point I am willing to do anything. I just want a working computer
that I can turn off and turn on.

Wayne

 

[bojimbo26]

This is my system: tinyurl.com/3577u5
I added another stick of 1 gig ram and a nvidia 7950 graphics card.

Runs perfect but if I reboot or restart I have to disconnect all the
peripherals and then plug them all back in.
The boot screen show the video card then the ram then the monitor looses its
signal. Dead.
Or, I get past that and the hard drive info and a whole bunch of stuff then
it stops and says "wrong disc inserted. remove disc and hit any key to
continue". Sometimes there is a disc in and sometimes not. But it doesn't
matter it wont continue hitting a key or not.
I have replace what I was led to believe was faulty ram. That was not the
problem. Oh, and I switched the monitor to see if it was its fault. Nope.
Can't even put in the XP cd to reformat.

At this point I am willing to do anything. I just want a working computer
that I can turn off and turn on.

Wayne

Try unpluging all periph`s ,reboot , then plug one in , then reboot .
Keep doing to each one and see if it happens at a particular reboot .

 

[Guest]

I was able to fix the problem.

In previous additions of windows it wasn't possible to begin a format
*within windows*, but it is possible, I see, with XP.
I began a format proceedure. During the process the computer needed to
reboot. As the reboot took place, I attempted to enter the bios and was able
to! Once I got into the bios, I decided to get down to basics and set simply
the 'optimal' configuration and continued from there.
Lucky me, windows realized that I had the OS already installed and asked me
if I just wanted to 'repair' the installation. I selected yes.
Now, I have a computer that I can restart and turn off whenever needed
without a problem.
Thanks (e-mail address removed) for taking the time to respond.
Wayne
ps: I can't believe that I mispelled rebooT ! :-(