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Computer troubles..

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D0WN3R

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Ok, I had originally planned to install a harddrive on a XP computer(that had the sims on it, which did work). I decided it would be a good idea to clean the fans out and reseat the motherboard so everything would fit nice(before, the harddrives and pci cards had NO screws in them due to bad mb placement). So after reasembling the computer and starting it up, it seemed to go much slower and took forever to detect the harddrives and would even freeze during the boot up process(I got into the bios a few times but it would freeze). So I immiediately thought it was a heating problem, and spent the next few hours testing that out with no luck. I finally had the motherboard down to the nubs, and still nothing. I exchanged the heatsink for another and amazingly it booted up just fine, no freezes, everything seemed perfect, great. So I put everything back in the computer that was originally there, start it up, it starts to load windows then, I hit a black screen and it freezes. I try again in safe mode, it seemed to load a bunch of files then just stop, so once again it froze. I tried booting from the windows XP cd many times, it would load all the files, get to the "Setup is loading windows", then nothing. I tried it again, this time I got a "PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA" blue screen! Ok, so I thought that's the memory. I take out one stick of memory and try again.. It's loading windows, I log in, and as it's loading the programs, FREEZE. I tried over and over, sometimes I wouldn't get far and would get a black screen, others it just froze when the windows xp picture started to show, and then when loading windows. I tried moving the ram around and trying different ram and still the same thing. The motherboard and processor isn't old. It's a duron 1100 on a cheap baby ATX motherboard and it's using old sdram, (I have 128mb, 64mb, and two 32mb sticks). It has a fan and heatsink(no thermal paste however) and the fan is working. And has onboard video(I've tried swapping in an agp geforce card but no good). The other harddrive was definetly the cause of the slow booting process and freezing. But now something else is causing the freezing and I don't know what. It has been working just fine, up until now. Any clues as to what the problem may be? Or advice on what to do?

Thanks.
 
Originally posted by D0WN3R
..It's a duron 1100 on a cheap baby ATX motherboard and it's using old sdram, (I have 128mb, 64mb, and two 32mb sticks). It has a fan and heatsink(
no thermal paste however ) and the fan is working...
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1. The <enter> key is your friend!

2. Put thermal paste, or at least a thermal pad on the Heatsink. You're not getting proper heat transfer, and the CPU is overheating.
 
Also make sure that nothing is contacting on the underside of the motherboard. I had wierd problems like that a few months ago after transfering everythiung into a new case and I found the problem was a sliver of metal that came off the case under the motherboard was contacting and causing a short.
 
Thanks guys. It turned out it may have been overheating, either that or the heatsink was again on wrong. Slapped a thermal pad on there and it seems to be working as it did before. Weird thing is, even the memory and harddrive I thought were bad, are working just fine now. I now officially hate computers. :p

Thanks again.
 
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