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cyberskin

im starting to think that it is a motherboard issue, but i just wish there was a way to detremine 100% the cause. but there isnt so thats the frustrating thing. the sad thing about getting a new MB is that it would be hard to find a motherboard that will accept RDRAM. that memory is so **** expensive. But if i do need a new MB i might aswell get MB,Memory, CPU. i got the rest new so what the heck. But im not at that point yet i will give it a few more days or so to see if I or someone else can find the problem.

Gandalf

Originally Posted by cyberskin

I have red some post about pc's not booting but mine does sometimes then freezes.So i will start with what i've done:

i bought a new pc and was putting together my old pc for my wife, P4 2.4 intel board 512 rdram. So it has worked great for me for the last 3 years now, but it has been sitting in the corner for about 2 months now. anyways i bought a new keyboard mouse and speakers, put the old HD that i was using in the new pc back into the old one and started up the pc and nothing would boot. so i tried everything ( unpluged each ide card the was in the pc, unpluged the "A" drive, unpluged the cd and dvd rom, even unpluged the HD) still it would come on ( cpu fan, lights on case, lights on speaker and eithernet card lit up and HD spun), but it did not allow me to access CMOS. so i replaced the battery and voila it booted, i formated the HD installed windows Vista home and about 2 hours later the pc froze, i pushed reset and same thing happened again ( did not load at all even to get to cmos ). so then i tried a new power supply ( old one was 150 watts new one is 180 watts)and voila again it loaded. the next morning woke up and looked at the pc and it was frozzing again. did the reset and again it didnt load past cmos screen. so my only other options are Motherboard, memory, cpu !!. i can't think of anything else to try. does vista require more then 180 watts ? is it a power problem i have ? maybe to much pluged into the power bar ? i have 2 pc's runing from a 10 port power bar can that be it? , the other pc runs fine tho !!

Well if anyone else has any suggestions on what i can try next please write back, so i can get my wife off my pc and on hers !!

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