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| Thread ID: 93748 | 2008-09-29 12:34:00 | computer is buggered | motorbyclist (188) | Press F1 |
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| 708642 | 2008-09-29 12:34:00 | Got a call from my parents saying the computer doesn't work, but was working fine running call of duty 4 just hours prior - i can immediately say it's either a virus of some sort or a hardware failure, possibly due to an unsteady footing (they insist on putting it in a desk it doesn't fit into, so only three feet are on the ground at a time) windows xp professional, legal, auto update, avast antivirus plus whatever else they've done to it X2 amd6000+ asus m2n sli deluxe (?) asus 8600gt silent 2GB of ram (maybe four) sata hard drive and optical drive power supply up to the task used for email, browsing, flash games, some CAD work and occasionally gaming when i built the system i found the system would occasionally fail under heavy gaming load, but not when i was trying to fix it.... suspect the silent video card the problem due to the weight of the heatsink being a bit much for the PCB but ran fine otherwise what i've done so far: turned it on, pressed f1 to continue as last boot failed, got as far as loading bar for XP, which went fine and then screen went blank with a working cursor. after a short while it finally produced a login screen, logged on and had an unresponsive desktop with only a working cursor (no keyboard keys seemed to earn a response) rebooted, and couldn't get past the blank screen checked the sata connector for the harddrive hadn't fallen out, but no luck there got out my camera and a linux live cd (ubuntu v6.06 LTS) and loaded that, tried to run linux live and got THIS screen (www.imagef1.net.nz) ran with 'noapic' option and got THIS (www.imagef1.net.nz)then THIS (www.imagef1.net.nz) then THIS (www.imagef1.net.nz) which then left me at the shell interface considering known gaming problems i pulled out the video card and tried an old 6600GT i know to be working. that would boot a working linux, but couldn't boot 'PCMCIA services' (www.imagef1.net.nz) next i tried booting windows again with the 6600gt, but it couldn't due to drivers, and bluscreened as soon as it could (www.imagef1.net.nz) - i assume that's due to the 6 series card on 8 series drivers tried to run windows in safe mode, but it would hang on "STDP.sys", even if i pressed esc to cancel it. any ideas? anyone know what "..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" is likely to mean? (i might add that that version of linux won't boot on my own machine which has same motherboard and similar CPU, only major difference being a silent 9600GT video card) |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 708643 | 2008-09-29 16:43:00 | tried a f8 boot last known good config. beleive or not i ve known faulty cdrom to cause this problem. there should be a fail safe boot option in that distro on startup try pushing f2 on boot screen for boot options |
beama (111) | ||
| 708644 | 2008-09-29 19:17:00 | Load BIOS defaults to reset.... | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 708645 | 2008-09-30 02:36:00 | tried a f8 boot last known good config. beleive or not i ve known faulty cdrom to cause this problem. there should be a fail safe boot option in that distro on startup try pushing f2 on boot screen for boot options yea tried that will try f2 on linux will unplug cdrom and see what happens Load BIOS defaults to reset.... tried and no luck |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 708646 | 2008-09-30 02:45:00 | RAM test. Use Memtest 86+ |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 708647 | 2008-09-30 03:24:00 | good idea - and ppl laugh when they see i have a floppy drive:rolleyes: | motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 708648 | 2008-09-30 06:25:00 | If you have more than one memory card, remove one at a time & try. Could be a faulty one. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 708649 | 2008-09-30 06:51:00 | good idea - and ppl laugh when they see i have a floppy drive:rolleyes: Why I have a floppy and a card reader and 2 optical drives as well a CD writer and a dual layer DVD writer as well as front USB slots and they all get used :2cents: |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 708650 | 2008-09-30 06:55:00 | Try this - your pic with the blue screen in the original post gives a hint/ possible answer the Stop Error 0X000000B4 along with the second line "The Video Driver Failed to Initialize" According to MS one reason could be there's a conflict between the LPT1 Printer port and graphics, explaining why no video card change makes any difference. This problem occurs because of a conflict with the parallel port and the video card, if the parallel port I/O address is set to 03BC. Have a look This here (support.microsoft.com) on how to fix it. Note: you may need to boot into the BIOS and see if you can disable the LPT1 port first - the wording under OR near the bottom of the instructions. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 708651 | 2008-09-30 11:09:00 | RAM test. Use Memtest 86+ 6 hours (12 tests) with no errors later and i think it's safe to say the ram is ok cdrom made no difference linux simply wont boot with the 8600gt installed, but will with the 6600gt as i described in the original post tomorrow i'll put the 8600gt into another machine and see if that's the problem |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
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