Interesting problems with a few machines...

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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Dad brought home a few computers from work for me to test out. Everyone first thought it was the PSU(including myself) as when one of them would try to boot, it would restart right before the desktop would appear. Another identical system wouldn't even start to load(lots of Exception crap on the screen.

The rebooting one, I tried some of the new PSUs and a regular one I had laying around with no success... I then took the drive out and stuck it in the other machine and it worked great. So, that machine's out of the problem now...

Because dad didn't want me to format the drive(don't know why) I stuck a 10G I had laying around and loaded XP on it. The machine has since been working great. I have yet to get a restart, lock up, BSOD, or anything... I loaded YouTube and Myspace with all grades of videos, bumped the res up to 1280x1024... If it was going to mess up, it should of. Now, I never disabled the swap file, so maybe I should do that...

But anyway, what's up with this?? I mean, the machines are identical, so it's not a drive issue. It's apparently not a PSU issue. The HD should be fine as the other machine works just peachy. I'm just baffled...

Oh yeah, if anyone's wondering, these are Dell Optiplex 160's. PIII 1GHz, 256M RAM, 20G HD. Remember that dell I stuck in a larger case? This is the same machine, but back in it's little case.
 
The_Other_One said:
Dad brought home a few computers from work for me to test out. Everyone first thought it was the PSU(including myself) as when one of them would try to boot, it would restart right before the desktop would appear. Another identical system wouldn't even start to load(lots of Exception crap on the screen.
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i've had the exact same problem when i was using 3 different RAMs (Spectec, Blitz, and i don't remember the third) anyway i removed that third one and everything worked fine...

try working with one stick and put it in the slot right next to the CPU ( Slot 1 )
i guess this is not your problem as it's a DELL
but i thought this might help !
 
The_Other_One said:
Dad brought home a few computers from work for me to test out. Everyone first thought it was the PSU(including myself) as when one of them would try to boot, it would restart right before the desktop would appear.
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i had this same problem as well. this is when i was about to put my fists through the monior. i booted into safe mode with networking and rolled back my drivers for the video card and the sound card
 
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