Pc just refuses to restart

[Tapir]

Update

My new board (P4C800-DXE) and parts came of friday july 30th. As of thursday july 29th this dam board (A7N8X) has been behaving like a charm. I did nothing to it. It just started behaving. Yesterday I removed all hard drives and cdrom. Replaced with a new hard drive and cdrom. After all the installations o/s, patches etc not one bit of problem. It reboots and starts when I want - 3 days now. Hope it stays that way.

 

[Praetor]

LOL glad you got it working! Sounds like maybe a connection was loose? I just took my tower to peices yesterday and had a big problem gettin it to powerup properly because the soundcard was loose

 

[Tapir]

Yes, you know after I spent all this money on the new one. But then again I normally upgrade every 12 to 18 months so... I bought this last year June I think it was.

If it continues behaving for another week will sell of to pay for the new one. Thanks again to all.

 

[Tapir]

UPDATE

"Strange thing happen last night. We had 2 power failure between 5 pm and 9 pm. (The Pc just shut down - ups apparently no good.) However, each time the power came on back I pressed the start switch and bingo it booted. Normally it would take up to 6 hours before it could start again. Would it have something to do with the windows shut down? Bear in mind that if I start it with startup disk and try to reboot it will not." (This is copied from a previous post I made.)

Ever since the above happened I have had this feeling about the CPU.

I thought I should bring this up once more. I have been using this PC of and on since my last post. It continued doing the same thing. Two days ago I bought an A7V266-C to put together a system for my son. I borrowed the Athlon XP 2200+ I have in the A7N8X. It did not work. I then went "hunting" for another Athlon XP. Managed to find an Athlon XP 2400+. I dropped it into the board (A7N8X). This board has been working great since. Been doing a lot of stuff with it and no problem. I just love the speed with which this system works.

All along it was the dam CPU.......!!!!

SO.... maybe I can now close this thread!!!!! Thanks again for all the discussions guys.