I've been trying to fix my girlfriends computer for a few days now and I reaaaaally need some advise on the matter. I built it for her in January this year (2009) and I've had experience with building/upgrading my own computer over the years.
Spec:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000 3.00GHz (Socket AM2)
OCZ StealthXStream 400w Silent Power Supply
Asrock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Series
BFG GeForce 8600GTS OC 256mb
Seagate 120mb HDD IDE
Samsung Writemaster DVD-RW drive SATA
Windows Vista Business
Went home with her for a weekend and when the computer was set up it would turn on yet nothing would happen on the screen and windows wouldn't load. Took everything out inc motherboard, found a screw behind the mobo, not a problem, removed the screw from the case, cleaned out the components and case, put it back together, booted up and was fine.
Come monday the computers having issues by restarting or bluescreening after an indeterminable amount of time (within 5 mins of turning on), so checked all connections were fine, swapped gfx card for a geforce 9400 to counter any overheating issues relating to the graphics (you never know) but still nothing.
Attached the HDD to my own computer to back everything up but smoked it and lost the HDD, however we bought a new one (Maxtor 120gb IDE) and installed windows on it again (Vista business w/SP1) and yet the same issue happens with the computer restarting or bluescreening.
I then tried booting up Ubuntu (version 7.10 I think) from a cd-rom and it works fine. My last resort was to take everything apart again, including the CPU cooler and to clean re-apply the thermal paste. Strangely enough I'm back to square 1, with the computer not outputting any graphics, or sound, and the power button not able to turn it back off.
Personally I feel that the motherboard is going wrong, possibly the connection with the hard drive(s), however it could be the PSU...
Has anyone got any suggestions on the matter?
Spec:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000 3.00GHz (Socket AM2)
OCZ StealthXStream 400w Silent Power Supply
Asrock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ Platinum Revision 2 XTC 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Series
BFG GeForce 8600GTS OC 256mb
Seagate 120mb HDD IDE
Samsung Writemaster DVD-RW drive SATA
Windows Vista Business
Went home with her for a weekend and when the computer was set up it would turn on yet nothing would happen on the screen and windows wouldn't load. Took everything out inc motherboard, found a screw behind the mobo, not a problem, removed the screw from the case, cleaned out the components and case, put it back together, booted up and was fine.
Come monday the computers having issues by restarting or bluescreening after an indeterminable amount of time (within 5 mins of turning on), so checked all connections were fine, swapped gfx card for a geforce 9400 to counter any overheating issues relating to the graphics (you never know) but still nothing.
Attached the HDD to my own computer to back everything up but smoked it and lost the HDD, however we bought a new one (Maxtor 120gb IDE) and installed windows on it again (Vista business w/SP1) and yet the same issue happens with the computer restarting or bluescreening.
I then tried booting up Ubuntu (version 7.10 I think) from a cd-rom and it works fine. My last resort was to take everything apart again, including the CPU cooler and to clean re-apply the thermal paste. Strangely enough I'm back to square 1, with the computer not outputting any graphics, or sound, and the power button not able to turn it back off.
Personally I feel that the motherboard is going wrong, possibly the connection with the hard drive(s), however it could be the PSU...
Has anyone got any suggestions on the matter?
) and turning it on again at her place. I've checked for cracks/bends/loose capacitors/etc but nothing seems broken 
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