Boot Mystery

[bigozz]

My PC seems to be having a mid life crisis.

Everytime it is turned on, it seems to either generate a blue screen, or it just reboots of it's own accord at a random interval during the boot.

The blue screen errors are rarely the same, ranging from acpi errors to hard drive errors.

Most strange of all is that if I take ot the WinTV PVR 250 card, it fails to boot at all, it doesn't even get as far as the engineering beep. I can take all the PCI cards out, and no boot, but if I put the PVR card in any slot, it boots.

The mother board is a K7VMM 1.2.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[smah]

When there are multiple random BSOD errors, my first suspicion is bad memory. If possible, try swapping memory sticks (best) or a memory tester like

http://www.memtest86.com/

(takes longer & possibly less certain).

 

[GOLCPL]

Yes usually either Memory or CPU that will cause different Cinstant problems

 

[bigozz]

Thanks for the ideas, I tried using just one dimm, then the other, didn't work. Bought another cpu, no change.

Ran out of time, lost the will to live, so went out and bought another PC.

I'll perhaps revisit the problem again (new motherboard etc) at a later date.

Thanks