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29-May-2006, 00:50
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Celebrating Mediocrity
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More problems arise
Well just when I thought everything was cool with my computer, more problems arise. The computer I just built is apparently either extremely sensitive to being rocked whatsoever or something is wrong. The slightest vibration would shut it down, with my motherboard beeping. Whats happening? Is this a heat issue of some sort? Power?
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29-May-2006, 01:02
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If it's a shutdown and not a reboot that sounds like something is causing the PSU surge protection to trip. Loose or damaged power connector/wire, motherboard grounding issue, or possibly a broken trace/pin somewhere related to the motherboard power cicuitry.
Hard to troubleshoot, but often fixed by a total dismantle and rebuild. |
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29-May-2006, 01:03
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I've gotten a blue screen twice with a message telling me to disable shadowing or chacheing in BIOS or something along those lines. Any idea what that means? |
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29-May-2006, 01:16
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Other than disabling those options in BIOS? Nope sorry. Those things wouldn't be vibration sensitive, though.
Also missed that part about the motherboard beeping, and if it's power-related it would probably shut off totally (requiring a 'physical' on/off on the PSU before it would boot again), so my original suggestion is probably wrong. If it's not a power issue, then it's likely something broken on the MB, but if you're lucky it could also just be something making bad contact. For starters I'd reseat the graphics card, RAM, and remove any other PCI(e) cards and see if that helps. Last edited by Zaphod; 29-May-2006 at 01:18. |
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29-May-2006, 01:56
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Also using one version of XP Pro on two computers apparently doesn't allow you to download service pack updates. Is there a way to contact Microsoft to fix this? The same version is installed on my broken computer, therefore i cant rightly just uninstall it. |
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29-May-2006, 21:17
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Hmm, so far so good. Haven't encountered any errors yet. I think something was loose somewhere along the lines internally.
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29-May-2006, 22:27
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31-May-2006, 07:51
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31-May-2006, 09:46
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But if the default BIOS settings don't provide stable operation, and BIOS settings are the problem, then I'd say it's a bad motherboard.
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31-May-2006, 09:58
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EDIT: typo, I meant "Assign IRQ to VGA"
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I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably. Last edited by _xxx_; 31-May-2006 at 11:01. |
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