help my pc is nuts

The green led: on computer or the monitor? if its on the monitor, check all connections: video cable and yes the power. does the computer make any other noises: windows startup or other beeps? Try reseating memory, cpu, and double check all power connections on the motherboard.

If you have the A7N8X mobo you need to clear the CMOS memory and upon reboot set up the bios correctly. Same thing happened to me. The manual tells you how to clear the memory. Also make sure you have the jumper for fsb set correctly (200 or 266/333) for your processor.

<font color=red>The solution may be obvious, but I can't see it for the smoke coming off my processor.</font color=red>

What's in your system? I was just making a stab in the dark. Knowing what you have will help in the diagnosis. Put it in the Subject of the post and you will get more qualified responses.

<font color=red>The solution may be obvious, but I can't see it for the smoke coming off my processor.</font color=red><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by paulj on 12/26/02 01:45 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

Uh oh.

<font color=blue>You're posting in a forum with class. It may be third class, but it's still class!</font color=blue>

If I were a prosecuter I'd put innocent poor people in prison on circumstantial evidence while refusing to prosecute guilty rich people based on "lack of sufficient evidence to build a case".

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ECS has extremely poor build quality. Probably around 15% of K7S5A boards were defective when they left the factory. Most of the rest have trouble with memory stability and unstable power supplies. The only way to make them run perfectly is to use top quality memory and power. Oh get lucky.

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