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Thread ID: 42023 2004-01-29 18:51:00 New Ati Radeon causing major prob's with XP fergie (424) Press F1
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211075 2004-01-30 04:50:00 No reson to lose any data,insert the cd,choose new install,it will find your existing install of xp and ask if you want to repair it,follow your nose from there and it will be all up and running in no time with no lose of data metla (154)
211076 2004-01-30 04:52:00 yeh, thts wot i said b4 - whenever i do a repair, it stuffs up - and i have to format fergie (424)
211077 2004-01-30 04:59:00 Well.....im too busy acting like i know everything to bother reading your little posts.... metla (154)
211078 2004-02-01 07:32:00 um, booted from my xp disc - went to reinstall windows, and just after agreeing to the EULA, the pc reset.
is this the PSU? i hope so anyway - cos if it ain't, i dunno wot it'll be.

i've got a PSU coming tomorow - so i'll keep u all updated
fergie (424)
211079 2004-02-01 07:49:00 o, if it is the psu i'll haev to order a new one (the one i'm trying is a mates)
are there any brands to avoid?
Out of these, whats the best:
iCute
Super Flower
Hyena
fergie (424)
211080 2004-02-01 08:34:00 Hi
I had a very similar problem with locking up rebooting etc. swapped video cards, disconnected everything , swapped psu, turned out the cpu was fritzed. Fitted a new cpu and no more problems. It seemed the heat transfer paste on the heat sink had migrated and was intermittantly shorting out some caps.
It may be a long shot but when all the obvious things don't work whats left?
Wurzul :D
wurzul (5193)
211081 2004-02-01 18:55:00 o great.
i didn't need to hear that :p
fergie (424)
211082 2004-02-01 19:35:00 Seeing as you unplugged so many devices it's almost certainly not going to be the PSU.

Suggest you reformat and do a clean install. You could backup important stuff by putting your hard-drive into someone else's PC and copy to a folder, and copy it back later
Greg S (201)
211083 2004-02-01 21:53:00 >Seeing as you unplugged so many devices it's almost certainly not going to be the PSU.

NO. thats one very poor diagnostic. just because you unloaded a bit of load off the psu dosn't mean its not stuffed. i had one the other day doing exactly the same thing. turned out to be blown caps in the psu.

test it with a good known psu.
tweak'e (174)
211084 2004-02-02 08:55:00 >Suggest you reformat and do a clean install. You could backup important stuff by putting your hard-drive into someone else's PC and copy to a folder, and copy it back later


read my above posts... i can't do this - it locks up :(

my mate forgot to bring PSU - will bring tomorow (hopefully - i'm eggting sikc of using parents pc)

I'm hoping like hell its PSU - i don't wanna fork out for a new cpu
fergie (424)
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