First off: stats.
Mobo: DFI NF2 Ultra Inifinity
CPU: Athlon XP 2500+ Barton OC'ed to 10x200 (stock doesn't work either)
RAM: 1 GB Corsair DDR-400 (2x512mb)
VGA: Ati Radeon X1600PRO AGP
OS Drive: Seagate 7200.10 320gb SATA on onboard SiI3114 controller
So last night i was on my laptop in the living room, i walked into my bedroom to check something and the computer said "Windows is now shutting down" all on its own. I thought that was a little strange, but figured it got an update and was restarting. I came in later and it was still off, so i hit the power button and walked out (i was trying to print something from the living room so i needed my desktop on). I came back and it booted all the way into the Fedora 7 LiveCD i had accidently left in it, so i removed it and restarted it.
The computer got to the BIOS Splash screen and hung right before it detected the IDE devices. i hit the reset button and it did the same thing. I turned it off and on and it got through that part but wouldn't boot anything, the IDE indicator light was solid on. I reset the BIOS and went back to all stock settings, and it got me to the "Windows didn't start properly" screen. I tried Start Normally, Last known good configuration, and safe mode to no avail. Safe mode hung at Mup.sys, the other two never showed the windows splash screen.
So today the computer has been working intermittantly at best, once booting all the way into windows, but mostly not even showing the BIOS screen. If anyone has any ideas about this i'd appreciate it, i am a poor college student and would like to hold off on investing in a C2D/A64 upgrade. BUT if there are no alternatives, i must do it. I could possibly swing around 400 for cpu/ram/vid/mb, and i'd probably take this opportunity to get a new case as well.
Also, for a while the sound (mp3's/wma's through WMP based playback) would cut out or distort, but i think that was either a driver issue, a WMP decoder issue, or a southbridge heat issue. It wouldn't do it if video was involved though. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Thanks for the help!!
Mobo: DFI NF2 Ultra Inifinity
CPU: Athlon XP 2500+ Barton OC'ed to 10x200 (stock doesn't work either)
RAM: 1 GB Corsair DDR-400 (2x512mb)
VGA: Ati Radeon X1600PRO AGP
OS Drive: Seagate 7200.10 320gb SATA on onboard SiI3114 controller
So last night i was on my laptop in the living room, i walked into my bedroom to check something and the computer said "Windows is now shutting down" all on its own. I thought that was a little strange, but figured it got an update and was restarting. I came in later and it was still off, so i hit the power button and walked out (i was trying to print something from the living room so i needed my desktop on). I came back and it booted all the way into the Fedora 7 LiveCD i had accidently left in it, so i removed it and restarted it.
The computer got to the BIOS Splash screen and hung right before it detected the IDE devices. i hit the reset button and it did the same thing. I turned it off and on and it got through that part but wouldn't boot anything, the IDE indicator light was solid on. I reset the BIOS and went back to all stock settings, and it got me to the "Windows didn't start properly" screen. I tried Start Normally, Last known good configuration, and safe mode to no avail. Safe mode hung at Mup.sys, the other two never showed the windows splash screen.
So today the computer has been working intermittantly at best, once booting all the way into windows, but mostly not even showing the BIOS screen. If anyone has any ideas about this i'd appreciate it, i am a poor college student and would like to hold off on investing in a C2D/A64 upgrade. BUT if there are no alternatives, i must do it. I could possibly swing around 400 for cpu/ram/vid/mb, and i'd probably take this opportunity to get a new case as well.
Also, for a while the sound (mp3's/wma's through WMP based playback) would cut out or distort, but i think that was either a driver issue, a WMP decoder issue, or a southbridge heat issue. It wouldn't do it if video was involved though. I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Thanks for the help!!