[CS-FSLUG] Really bad situation

[David M.]

On Sunday 08 August 2004 11:58 am, N. Thompson wrote:
> I'm going to try to reply to all three replies I got here :-)
>
> Its running a Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz with hyper threading on an ASUS p4p8x.
> The temperatures seem fine, I was monitoring them yetsterday and didn't see
> any of them go over 42 C I haven't installed service pack 2 this time, I
> did once however when OSNews had an article on the windows update beta site
> and I went over to take a look, the next time I went for a windows update
> it went to the beta site instead of the normal one and I would up with SP
> 2. Since then I've had to reinstall though.
>
> I've checked the ram with memtest86 although I don't know how good that is
> at finding problems with the ram.
>
> There are no missing DLL files in Windows, every time I reinstall I make
> sure the old partition is reformatted.
>
> I think the problem in Windows is a software conflict, I've seen some
> evidence to that end, mainly when I'm not running a certain program the
> computer runs fine.
>
> My problems have switched from windows to the computer itself however, in
> trying to fix the stablity issue in Windows I did what someone recommended
> to me and I had the BIOS reset its default ("failsafe") settings. Since
> doing that the BIOS has prompted me for setup every time I boot but it
> never remembers the settings even if I set them from the bios setup menu.
> Reboting the computer results in it more or less locking up with the screen
> off but the power still on and I can't get into X in Linux because the BIOS
> won't store settings so the mainboard is only supporting 64 MB of my video
> memory on a card that has 128. Also last night for approximately 10 minutes
> the fan on the power supply stopped while the computer was running, it
> resumed working but the hardware probe still reported it as being at 0 RPM.

Why did you have to reset the BIOS? 

If your BIOS is not storing it's settings, you should check your battery on 
the motherboard. The battery keeps power to the CMOS and If your battery is 
dead, your CMOS is wiped clean when power is removed from the computer thus 
is why your settings are not being stored and could also be the reboot 
culprit.

There are plenty of things that could be causing the reboots, usually it's 
Hardware, but it could be software as well, just as Christopher Rose 
mentioned missing .DLL's.

But you say you have done a fresh install, so I believe it's hardware based.

Check your CMOS battery and let me know.

-- 
David M.