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Thread ID: 77364 2007-03-07 02:47:00 POST Failure - Constant Restarting Dead Dreamer (11966) Press F1
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530871 2007-03-07 02:47:00 Hi guys, having to come to you from an alternate computer *sigh* as i've encountered an error on my own machine which i cannot work out?!?!

Was playing WoW today and needed to restart the computer because i encountered some heavy graphics lag.

Restarted, and now the computer does not boot to POST.

I dont know about others, but when i restart my computer normally the small carbon speaker makes like a "duh" sound signalling restart BEFORE it does the standard POST 1 beep "all ok".

All i am recieving now is a machine which is hung on boot constantly going duh duh duh, which to me indicates it is constantly restarting and failing before it even gets to POST.

PSU - Antec 300W True Power
MB - Gigabyte 8I915P Duo Pro
Ram - 1024mb Kingston DDR2 533
HDD - 3x 160gb + 1x 320gb
CPU - 3.2 P4 OC to 3.6 (Have had it OC'd for close to a month now and this is the first sign of a problem :-s)

Have tried removing the onboard battery to reset the CMOS but am not even sure if that has worked.
Have disconnected and reconnected all the wires etc for each component to no avail.

Anybody have any suggestions? 		Dead Dreamer (11966)
530872 2007-03-07 03:01:00 How long did you have the battery out for? And did you have the power cord removed while you had the battery out?

I don't know if your Mainboard has a reset CMOS jumper (if it does, it'll be very near the battery) but that is the easiest way to ensure you have reset the CMOS.

Have you tried booting with nothing but RAM and CPU and VGA if it isn't onboard?

Have you tried reseating the CPU? Re-do your heatpaste. 		trig42 (11325)
530873 2007-03-07 03:02:00 Welcome to PressF1 Dead Dreamer :D

What sort of graphics card do you have? 		stu161204 (123)
530874 2007-03-07 05:51:00 How long did you have the battery out for? And did you have the power cord removed while you had the battery out?

I had the battery out for approximately- minutes, im not sure what capacitance the caps would have held residual charge for so i assumed that would be long enough.

I don't know if your Mainboard has a reset CMOS jumper (if it does, it'll be very near the battery) but that is the easiest way to ensure you have reset the CMOS.

I have looked in my mobo manual for how to do this but could not find anything relating to it - closest thing was flashing the bios - but cannot do that since it doesnt boot. If there is a reference picture even from any other mobo i am sure i could figure it out, until then i'd prefer not to play with jumpers until i am certain of the ones i need to touch.

Have you tried booting with nothing but RAM and CPU and VGA if it isn't onboard?

In reference to that statement, i have tried this:

1 Nothing but the power supply, CPU,installed on the motherboard, plug your power cord in and turn power on.
2 You should hear a series of long beeps & all your fans should be turning.
3 The board is looking for memory.
4 That tells you your 'board, CPU & power supply are working.
5 Unplug power cord (very important an ATX power supply always has power to it when the cord is pluged in).
6 Install 1 stick of RAM in the first bank, it should be marked either 0 or 1
7 Plug your power cord in and turn your power on.
8 You should get 1 long and 3 short beeps. It will be looking for the video card.
9 That tells you your PS/'board/CPU/RAM are working.
10 Unplug power cord.
11 Install your video card and plug your monitor into your video card.
12 Plug your power cord in turn your power on.
13 You should get a power up test which is 1 short beep.
14 You should see your CPU/RAM/video reconized on the screen.
15 You will get a disk boot failure because you have no drives installed. In this case every thing you have installed is working.
16 Shut machine down and unplug power cord.
17 Install all your drives, set your BIOS up and install your operating system.
Sad to say it still hangs at step one :(

Have you tried reseating the CPU? Re-do your heatpaste.

I have not tried this yet, need to get some thermal paste from my friend before i can try this one out.

And finally - my graphics card is a Gigabyte 6600GT :-) 		Dead Dreamer (11966)
530875 2007-03-07 06:27:00 i would try replaceing the power supply. 300watt is a bit on the light side for such a pc. tweak'e (69)
530876 2007-03-07 07:13:00 wow, 4 Hd's, OC P4, graphic card and how many optical drives?. Mate, you have stuffed your PSU, prob running it @ 100% so long...LOL

The graphics lag was prob your warning!

Lets hope it has taken out your mobo, cpu & graphic card also ah? 		SolMiester (139)
530877 2007-03-07 09:30:00 Possibly, but i doubt it. I've had it loaded for alot more before. I'll take it to the shop tomorrow to try and find out what is happening. Just seems like such a waste of a PSU considering the ammount i paid for it. Those True Power models come at a price =/ Dead Dreamer (11966)
530878 2007-03-07 09:40:00 Yeah bud, but you arnt supposed to run them at 100% load!

I had 2 drive, 2 optic, same graphic card, no sound card and less power draw AMD chip kill a 300w 		SolMiester (139)
530879 2007-03-07 10:01:00 you runnin all that on a miserable 300watt psu ?......not too smart......however it's possible also that the system has overheated some part perhaps the cpu or the video card.... drcspy (146)
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