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AndyMac

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Hey,

My friend just recently built a new computer, everything new. He booted it up and it worked fine ffor about 2 days, then he shut it down. The next morning he turned it on and it got to the boot up screen and restarted, and kept doing that same process. What's the problem?
 
Need more information. How about some specs, and when exactly it reboots. Then, maybe we'll be able to narrow it down a bit. I have a feeling it'll take having a couple extra parts laying around to test with. In the meantime, go on and tell your buddy to run memtest (www.memtest.org) on the system (get the floppy image, and boot to it), as well as a hard drive diagnostic (can be gotten from the drive manufacturers website).
 
I realize the system has only been up and running for about two days. But, has it been overclocked?
 
It reboots right after it lists the parts being ok and before it brings up the windows boot screen.

The specs are: (roughly-sorry)
AMD 3200+ cpu
768 mb 3200 ram
6600gt
some pos hd that he took out of his old Dell
450 watt psu
 
Is the power button stuck? I've seen that happen quite a bit at work.

Do you have all the power connectors connected to the video card?

Does it POST?

HSF seated properly?

Can you try a different PSU?


That's the order I'd start in.
 
Try resetting the BIOS and then pulling to CMOS battery for a few minutes see if that fixes it. That and make sure everything is seating properly and nothing got loose after settling in for a few days.
 
I'm willing to bet it's hardware (since the parts are so new). Did you give memtest and the hard drive diag a try yet? If not, go get the ultimate boot cd from www.ultimatebootcd.com. It has both of the tools on it. It's a real handy diag cd to keep around.
 
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