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Unknown hardware problem

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malebolgia

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As of the weekend my computer as been unable to boot up. Occasionally it would if I selected "Load last working config." Since yesterday if I'm lucky I'll see the splash screen before my monitor light starts blinking and everything goes black. I decided to try to use the repair option with my XP disc. Funny thing is when it located my Windows partition, my partition was named: "C:\WINDOWS "Windows Media Center Edition"? Not quite sure where that one came from, but anyway I pressed "R" to repair it. All was looking fine, it asked to reboot (it did), and 2-5 minutes after the reboot when it was setting up Windows my screen went black and the light on my monitor started blinking. I tried to repair it a second time, but got the same result.

Last night after buying a new 120GB HD from Best Buy I'm still getting the same results. So now I'm thinking it's some kind of hardware problem. Here's what I did last night:
  • Formatted the new drive to NTFS file system.
  • Windows disc copied files to the new HD for installation
  • Computer rebooted itself to start installation
  • 2-5 minutes into installation computer monitor went black with LED light blinking.
  • Tried this a second time with the same result
 
Is anything overlclocked? Have you changed any bios settings? Have you tryed a memtest?
 
flash your bio's or change back to default settings, if that dont work turn off any video settings like shadowing or chaching in the bios, down clock the cpu see if that changes anything, anything like that, make sure your voltage at the back of your pc is set to 115v... <--- i know i know but you never know right, stay clam dont start freaking out cause once that starts happeing alot of stuff starts getting broken

good look keep us posted
 
My machine is an old 800 MHz Intel with 512 MB SDRAM and a GeForce 3 graphics card. Nothing in my computer has been over clocked and I already reset my BIOS twice. Any more suggestions guys? I just remembered that someone told me it might be my power supply?
 
how many sticks of ram do you have?

If more then one remove all but one and see if problem persists.
If it does try with another stick.

If still having issues borrow a friends PSU and try that.

IMHO PSU's cause many issues RAM a close second.

Or run memtest as somebody already mentioned
 
I have two sticks of 256MB SDRAM. Someone is telling me that I need a new PSU (currently have supports 250w) since I'm running: 800Mhz Intel chip, CD-ROM, CD-RW, GeForce3, and 2 HDs.
 
Last night I took out my video card and tried the onboard display adaptor. Well I got the same result so it may be my motherboard. I got so desperate 1 hour ago I took my computer to a computer shop where my friend works. They have all sorts of diagnostic hardware there. The guy there thinks that my motherboard might be sending a premature signal to the monitor. Thus making it go into a standby mode, or it might be the monitor itself. My monitor is a HP that is somewhere around 3 years old. Anyway I'll know later today or tomorrow what the problem was. If it is my motherboard I need to track down a motherboard that supports an Intel Pentium 800 MHz chip. If not that I could get a new motherboard and CPU, but I don’t want to have to buy new RAM (current SDRAM).
 
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