I am fairly certain that my mobo is dying on me. When I try to start the computer it will randomly freeze during boot up, it also freezes when I'm in the BIOS. When and if I can get to the desktop it freezes in about a minute or less. Each time it freezes the monitor will blink off and then blink back on and everything will be frozen. I first assumed it was the video card doing something because of my overclocking it but I ruled that out by putting several other video cards in and having it do the same thing. Also, the hd acess light just stays on, it no longer blinks it just stays on. I tried tearing the machine to the bear minimum to boot just in case it was one of the cards causing problems but it still failed. I have already tried flashing the cmos and reconfiguring things but it either would freeze before I could change anything or it didn't help. Another thing it does is turn off or reset for no reason. It does that when/if I get to the desktop sometimes. That made me think of the powersupply being overloaded, but it still did it when I unplugged everything but what was necissary to boot. I'll try a different powersupply but I don't think that will work.
Here are my stats:
PIII 801mhz
ECS P6IWP-FE i810e motherboard
nVidia Riva TNT2 m64 32mb PCI (overclocked)
SoundBlaster Live! Value
512mb pc133
120gb ata133 7200rpm maxtor
52x liteon cd-rom
8x4x32 sony cd-r
16x48 Pioneer DVD
250watt power supply
Windows XP Pro (sp1)
I have been wanting to replace my mobo for a while now so this could be a reason to. If there is something I should try let me know, I could still get some use out of it. If you need more info just ask.
Any suggestions are welcome!
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by folken on 02/16/03 11:18 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
Here are my stats:
PIII 801mhz
ECS P6IWP-FE i810e motherboard
nVidia Riva TNT2 m64 32mb PCI (overclocked)
SoundBlaster Live! Value
512mb pc133
120gb ata133 7200rpm maxtor
52x liteon cd-rom
8x4x32 sony cd-r
16x48 Pioneer DVD
250watt power supply
Windows XP Pro (sp1)
I have been wanting to replace my mobo for a while now so this could be a reason to. If there is something I should try let me know, I could still get some use out of it. If you need more info just ask.
Any suggestions are welcome!
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by folken on 02/16/03 11:18 PM.</EM></FONT></P>