I have a homemade system that was built in mid 2006 - it has an intel DG965RY motherboard with a dual core 6400 CPU, 4 gigs ram, Nvidia 7900GS video card, two 320Gig hard drives, and some other components. Oh, and it runs Vista Ultimate.
Last year, I noticed the computer would often shut down during the bootup process, but once it booted up it was ok. I tried re-installing Vista but it ws repeating it but later found out my 450watt power supply was not enough and replaced it with a 650 PS. It worked perfectly until this week.
I noticed that the computer would just crash for no reason while using it. Now when I try to start it, it seems to struggle as soon as I push the button - Ie, the fans and LED's turn on and like a car it starts but fails, it tries to start again and fails again. Every now and then (like right now), the computer starts fine and actually runs normally (giving me a chance to make sure everything is backed up lol). So I'm really suspecting something might be up with the Motherboard.
Here is what I've tried:
Replaced the Power supply again, but did the exact same thing.
removed every component aside from the CPU and RAM and it still did it.
Checked ram using memtest - everything is ok.
So is it the motherboard? or the CPU could be damaged as well? supposedly Intel has a 3 year limited warranty on the motherboard but it's the weekend and I have not been able to get a hold of them. If they don't cover it, I'll have to buy another Motherboard - is it possible to change motherboard brands/models without reinstalling vista?
Thank you.
Last year, I noticed the computer would often shut down during the bootup process, but once it booted up it was ok. I tried re-installing Vista but it ws repeating it but later found out my 450watt power supply was not enough and replaced it with a 650 PS. It worked perfectly until this week.
I noticed that the computer would just crash for no reason while using it. Now when I try to start it, it seems to struggle as soon as I push the button - Ie, the fans and LED's turn on and like a car it starts but fails, it tries to start again and fails again. Every now and then (like right now), the computer starts fine and actually runs normally (giving me a chance to make sure everything is backed up lol). So I'm really suspecting something might be up with the Motherboard.
Here is what I've tried:
Replaced the Power supply again, but did the exact same thing.
removed every component aside from the CPU and RAM and it still did it.
Checked ram using memtest - everything is ok.
So is it the motherboard? or the CPU could be damaged as well? supposedly Intel has a 3 year limited warranty on the motherboard but it's the weekend and I have not been able to get a hold of them. If they don't cover it, I'll have to buy another Motherboard - is it possible to change motherboard brands/models without reinstalling vista?
Thank you.