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[comok3]

Friend bought a bare bones system with amd 2000, arock motherboard...every time he gets it up and running it flakes out with all different stuff, could it be his phillips monitor or ati radoen 7000 and his soundblaster live just won't work together????? It goes from blue screens to not booting to not shuting down and sometimes even won't see his western digital hard drive and he has to start all over, even tried another hard drive and it does the same thing. Craziest computer I have ever worked on...........

 

[KimberTech]

The monitor shouldnt matter.
Have you gone over the jumper settings for the board to make sure they are correct?
Is the memory the right type for the board and seated properly?
Give some examples of what the errors are so we have something to go on..
Does it freeze? Error messages? Post code beeps on boot? Kimber

The more I learn,I realize how much more there is to know!

 

[Kocky]

Is the power supply strong enough?
A 250 watts is the minimum for AMD ATHLON XP

 

[comok3]

So much weird stuff that I don't know where to begin, sometimes it will shut down but leave the fans running, sometimes it won't boot at all, sometimes you can format and load windows and sometiems it errors out formatting or loading windows....when you get it all up and running it will freeze or just go black...in 7 years I have never seem one this flakey

asrock mb
phillips monitor
western d 30 gig
ati radoen 7000
soundblaster live
512 megs pc 133

 

[Grenage]

While not a solution to your problem really, has your friend considered taking the system back and asking for one that is in some way stable ?

 

[comok3]

He did and they changed out the mother board for him but it didn't solve the problem...i am still thinking it is a conflict some where between all the components. are ther any issues with a xp motherboard and any of his components that you know of?????

 

[dcwtechmech]

Memory is a good start. But taking the board back is the second choice. Let everything that have breath praise the Lord.

 

[KimberTech]

I would leave it as PSU, board, ram, video and CPU and reboot over and over.
If you get any strangeness you have eliminated a lot of other stuff.
If it is all fine, add one thing at a time and reboot a few times.
When you add the hard drive, surface scan it. make sure it is coming up detected properly when it boots.

I have a ten times reboot policy after I add something. May seem a little excessive, but I havent sent anything out that has come back. I usually catch it first...and it doesnt always mess up on the first few tries.
My method of hardware troublshooting, and seems to have worked well for me over the last um well...many years.

Good Luck!

Kimber

The more I learn,I realize how much more there is to know!

 

[comok3]

i tried differnt memory and it didn't make any difference. he bought this at a computer show in okla city and the company is not from here...would be cheaper to just replace the part...or so we thought..gotta figure out what it is first

 

[comok3]

I am thinking about takeing it apart and putting on my test bench and use nothing of his except the mb, cpu and harddrive and work my way up again....did that once and had it up and running but it messed up 2 days after he took it home...thats why i asked about the phillps monitor that loads drivers if it could be a conflict with the ati

 

[oldbear]

breaking it down to the basic parts sounds like the best way...is there a possibility of anything that could be grounding it out? did you lose a screw behind the motherboard and it is touching a pin of one of the chips...I'd go back to the out of case configuration, completely finish the system one piece after another..and load all the drivers until you have finished it...let it run for a few days and if still stable..then transfer itback to the case..very time consuming but hopefully you'll be able to pinpoint the problem