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I picked up a PIII 933 w/o harddrive at a flea market. It came with 64 megs of RAM, CD ROM, case, mainboard, PIII 933, PSU and a GeForce3 TI200. I added a harddrive, put in another stick of RAM, and voila, working usable PC. I though, oh yes, another F@H box for me! How wrong I was.

This darn thing will NOT boot. It will POST, and load windows. However, before the login screen comes up, it will restart or shut off. It did this with Windows 98 SE, and Windows XP pro.

Motherboard is a Supermicro 820 SCD, CPU runs under 40c. 128 megs of RAM. I also put a NIC in it. Any ideas? I've reset the BIOS more than once now. :(
 
Swapped the RAM out with Known Good ram, nothing changed. :( Also, tried a different hard drive, and the Video card has been checked, it ran fine in 2 other computers. =\
 
Yeah PSU is something that'll cause this, numero uno.

Also boot into safe mode and check the event log - it may or may not tell you at what point (loading driver x) that it's crashing on. Also, try installing intel's application drivers (it's an intel chipset, correct?). Also if this is a F@H-only box, use linux. :)
 
anakin357 said:
Yeah PSU is something that'll cause this, numero uno.

Also boot into safe mode and check the event log - it may or may not tell you at what point (loading driver x) that it's crashing on. Also, try installing intel's application drivers (it's an intel chipset, correct?). Also if this is a F@H-only box, use linux. :)
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It wouldn't boot into safe mode. :( Did the same thing...

I did have a spare socket 370 motherboard, I'm using that now, it's working fine. :)
 
Stop testing in windows. You have no idea if the existing load is working or not.

Run memtest. If there are critical hardware errors, or memory errors it'll fail/reboot there. Then you *know* it isn't a borked windows install.

Once you know the hardware is kosher, then move on to the OS.

Good luck.
 
It's up and running now, I think the mainboard was bad. Using the same RAM, harddrive, CPU.
 
^_^ Yes, things are looking up. I took the case that the PIII came in, pulled the motherboard, PSU, and CD ROM, then put my Dual PIII into it with a new PSU. I'm going to toss the PSU that came with it, as it's junk. Also, to whoever mentioned Caps, yes, the board has bad caps. :( They're bulging, and one has ruptured. If I cannot sell the board for a couple bucks, I may just go buy some new Caps and replace them, then I will put the Celeron I have on there, and hook it up as yet another F@H box. :)

I have 4 PIII's: two 650's in a dual rig, a 933, and a 1 ghz; two socket A: 2500+ barton and a mobile 2600+. Nice little F@H farm I have going. :)
 
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