Won't boot

Ricen · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:25 am Post subject: Won't boot

My pc was acting slughish last week. I did a restart to make sure nothing was running in the back ground. It will not start back up. I get lights on the drives and then nothing. I am not even getting a signal to the monitor.
Put the video card in another pc, works fine. Unhooked all drives from motherboard, on luck. Replaced motherboard, no luck. Thinking CPU but wondered if the RAM could cause the fault. I had stuck 1gig of Ram in about 4 to 5 days before crash.

motherboard --- Abit w/ the kt600-a chip set
CPU --- Amd 2600+ thoroughbred 2.1Ghz
RAM --- 2x 512mg 333Mhz ddr Pc2700 corsair + 512mg apacer 333Mhz ddr
Video card --- gainward 880Pro powerpack ultra 256Mg of 500Mhz ddr (gforce 5700)
Sound card ----- Soundbalster Audigy Ls
2 hard drives. OS is on a quantum fireball 20gig, gaming drive is a Western Digital 120 gig
OS ----- XP Home
Lite On ---- CDR+RW,DVD,DVDR+RW, 3.5 Floppy
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject:

Powersupply maybe? I don't really know lol just throwing something out there.
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Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject:

ya, prolly the PSU.
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Ricen · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys, I went ahead and ordered one, (AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Barton 333MHz FSB 512KB L2 Cache Socket A Processor - OEM ) from NewEgg.
Hope that fixes it!

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Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject:

Ricen · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject:

power supply is the olny thing I know is working, Fans run, lights light.
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Stevo · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject:

Have you tried removing the new RAM?
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Simpleman · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:17 pm Post subject:

Yes the ram could cause your system to not boot. Need to make sure that your MB is sending enough volts to it. If your MB is putting out 2,5 and you need 2.7 it won't boot up

. Also your PS might be able to run the fans and stuff, but there might not be enough to run the rest. I would check the ram first as it seems like thats what the problem is. Hope this helps.

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Stevo · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject:

Are there any beeps or anything when it tries to boot?
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:04 am Post subject:

Yea I know I had that problem when I built my step brothers PC. I must not have inserted the RAM all the way in and it made a VERY quiet beep that means the RAM wasn't installed correctly so it wouldnt enter POST.
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Ricen · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:58 am Post subject:

No beeps. Just hits the drives once, then sits. Will put a meter on the PS to check output. I spent abour 3 hours swapping ram and ram slots and crossing my fingers. Did find a hot spot on the case behind the motherboard when I swapped them. It looked like it was behind the M/B chip set though. Couldn't find any signs of over heat on the parts.
Will keep ya'll posted. Thx
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Canadian Rifle · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:17 pm Post subject:

i have a problem too it says that one of my new installed hardware or software isnt installed correctly and the only new stuff i put in is the RAM but then i took out the new RAM and put in the old and it still wont boot to windows so yea i dont kno!!!!

any help would be apreciated and on my next post i will show the wat it says on my screen wen it boots!!!!but it does say physical memory dump started and then its says physical meemory dump complete so i dunno????

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Ricen · Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

P/S seems ok. Checked volts and impedance, didn't want to cut the wires to check amps. I was thinking that as long as The ps didn't show any strange voltage drops I should have good current flow.
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Ricen · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

It wasn't the cpu ------- I got a P/S to try tonight.
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rANCOR hUNTER · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject: