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Nickp
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Hi all, been reading the forums for a while, but this'll be my first post
Built myself my latest computer, had no end of trouble to start with, went through 3 mobos and 2 Athlon XPs before I got it working, all dead on arrival.
Recently its started crashing to a black screen from all sorts of different situations, wether I'm playing games, working in windows etc. Power stays on, it doesn't reset itself, but my monitor stops displaying anything (the problem's not the monitor, I've swapped it with another monitor and same problem).
It hasn't happened very often so I've been able to live with it.
Switched on my machine tonight, after a crash earlier in the day, and it wouldn't boot, which is a problem I can't live with! Drive lights flashed, keyboard lights flashed, it all looked as though it was booting ok, but I got nothing on the monitor, then after doing that it gave some random bleeps (crap mobo manual with no explanation of error beeps, so I don't know what it was telling me). Restarted it, no luck. Anyway, I pulled the power cable from the box, plugged it back in, hit the power - all systems are go! It all booted up fine.
Can anyone explain this phenomenon? Which bit of machine do I need to go out and spend lots of hard earned money on?
Specs are:
Spacewalker AK31 Mobo
Athlon XP 1700+
256 DDR RAM
64MB VooDoo 5500
710D Hansol Monitor
20GB Western Digital HD
15GB Maxtor HD
OS:
XP Professional
Only other thing I've noticed is on shutdown sometimes, Windows tells me I've run out of virtual memory and has given me some more, but it only ever tells me this on shutdown.
Any help at all would be appreciated,
Cheers
Nick
Built myself my latest computer, had no end of trouble to start with, went through 3 mobos and 2 Athlon XPs before I got it working, all dead on arrival.
Recently its started crashing to a black screen from all sorts of different situations, wether I'm playing games, working in windows etc. Power stays on, it doesn't reset itself, but my monitor stops displaying anything (the problem's not the monitor, I've swapped it with another monitor and same problem).
It hasn't happened very often so I've been able to live with it.
Switched on my machine tonight, after a crash earlier in the day, and it wouldn't boot, which is a problem I can't live with! Drive lights flashed, keyboard lights flashed, it all looked as though it was booting ok, but I got nothing on the monitor, then after doing that it gave some random bleeps (crap mobo manual with no explanation of error beeps, so I don't know what it was telling me). Restarted it, no luck. Anyway, I pulled the power cable from the box, plugged it back in, hit the power - all systems are go! It all booted up fine.
Can anyone explain this phenomenon? Which bit of machine do I need to go out and spend lots of hard earned money on?
Specs are:
Spacewalker AK31 Mobo
Athlon XP 1700+
256 DDR RAM
64MB VooDoo 5500
710D Hansol Monitor
20GB Western Digital HD
15GB Maxtor HD
OS:
XP Professional
Only other thing I've noticed is on shutdown sometimes, Windows tells me I've run out of virtual memory and has given me some more, but it only ever tells me this on shutdown.
Any help at all would be appreciated,
Cheers
Nick