ran into an interesting problem with some old hardware I was pulling together for another system.
I was moving stuff around in my workshop to make room for playing and I found some hardware that I forgot I had. A p4p800e-dlx (flashed with a p4p800se bios), an M760 with 2 ct-479 adapters (one volt-modded), an 3.2C ES, a 9600xt card, and various hard and optical drives.
With this new found treasure I was planning to give it to my Dad to replace his old system that they don’t use due to slowness.
Anyways, the system booted up into windows (WinXP SP2) without a problem (apparently I had already installed the OS on the sata drive I was using). All was fine for a few reboots and then it stalls at the boot screen.
I first replaced the CMOS battery figuring an old board could have a dying battery. I have a few extra batteries laying around for just such an occasion. Same issue after resetting the bios and booting into windows for the first time.
If I reset the bios all seems fine until I reboot. Sometimes it will reboot if the drive is replugged into the system (unplugged > boot > error message > plug back in > reboot).
Okay I figured because the sata drive had the OS already installed it would be better to reformat and reinstall. Did, done and same issue.
Now I figure the sata drive could be pooched and replaced it with a brand new sata drive. Windows installs without issue and again it reboots no problem for a few times then a few reboots later it dies at the splash screen.
One thing that seems somewhat common with the reboot is that the problem seems to occur after installing and running orthos, cpuz and speedfan. Which one might be the culprit I am not sure.
Any thoughts on what the source of the problem might be?
Thanks
I was moving stuff around in my workshop to make room for playing and I found some hardware that I forgot I had. A p4p800e-dlx (flashed with a p4p800se bios), an M760 with 2 ct-479 adapters (one volt-modded), an 3.2C ES, a 9600xt card, and various hard and optical drives.
With this new found treasure I was planning to give it to my Dad to replace his old system that they don’t use due to slowness.
Anyways, the system booted up into windows (WinXP SP2) without a problem (apparently I had already installed the OS on the sata drive I was using). All was fine for a few reboots and then it stalls at the boot screen.
I first replaced the CMOS battery figuring an old board could have a dying battery. I have a few extra batteries laying around for just such an occasion. Same issue after resetting the bios and booting into windows for the first time.
If I reset the bios all seems fine until I reboot. Sometimes it will reboot if the drive is replugged into the system (unplugged > boot > error message > plug back in > reboot).
Okay I figured because the sata drive had the OS already installed it would be better to reformat and reinstall. Did, done and same issue.
Now I figure the sata drive could be pooched and replaced it with a brand new sata drive. Windows installs without issue and again it reboots no problem for a few times then a few reboots later it dies at the splash screen.
One thing that seems somewhat common with the reboot is that the problem seems to occur after installing and running orthos, cpuz and speedfan. Which one might be the culprit I am not sure.
Any thoughts on what the source of the problem might be?
Thanks
