I hope (know) someone here can suggest what is happening to my sons PC.
It started out just randomly shutting down. He would tell me that it would reboot for no reason but I found out that it happened at certain times like when minmizing or maximizing a window. We did a windows xp repair installation but after a few days it would start up again.
It got so bad that it would do it almost every time you messed with a window. It also would do it when changing from icon view in my computer to detail view of your file list.
I un-checked the auto restart so I could get a BSoD and a code but it would just reboot without the BSoD.
Then it just started freezing. I would do a hard restart and it would not boot into windows but would loop into a reboot until it would stop at the screen to choose safe mode etc. It will boot into safe mode but not into normal. It would still freeze in safe mode.
I have tried:
removing ram sticks one at a time
remove video card and run from onboard video
remove nic card
swapped power supply
ran HDD diagnostic - negative
Today I tried system restore from safe mode
I also tried doing a repair installation but it reboots right after entering the 25 digit code ( tried 8 times)
System (before ripping out parts):
MSI 815EPT MS6337
Intel PIII 1.13 Tualutin
2 sticks of generic PC133 SDram 128mb each
Raidon 7000 64mb card
Monster 400 sound card
Linksys nic card
generic ps2 keyboard
Logitech optical mouse.
Thanks
It started out just randomly shutting down. He would tell me that it would reboot for no reason but I found out that it happened at certain times like when minmizing or maximizing a window. We did a windows xp repair installation but after a few days it would start up again.
It got so bad that it would do it almost every time you messed with a window. It also would do it when changing from icon view in my computer to detail view of your file list.
I un-checked the auto restart so I could get a BSoD and a code but it would just reboot without the BSoD.
Then it just started freezing. I would do a hard restart and it would not boot into windows but would loop into a reboot until it would stop at the screen to choose safe mode etc. It will boot into safe mode but not into normal. It would still freeze in safe mode.
I have tried:
removing ram sticks one at a time
remove video card and run from onboard video
remove nic card
swapped power supply
ran HDD diagnostic - negative
Today I tried system restore from safe mode
I also tried doing a repair installation but it reboots right after entering the 25 digit code ( tried 8 times)
System (before ripping out parts):
MSI 815EPT MS6337
Intel PIII 1.13 Tualutin
2 sticks of generic PC133 SDram 128mb each
Raidon 7000 64mb card
Monster 400 sound card
Linksys nic card
generic ps2 keyboard
Logitech optical mouse.
Thanks