Problems with PC (dont know what to call it)

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FalKon

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i didnt really know where to put this cause i dont know what is causing the problem. ok heres how it goes. When i turn on my computer all the lights come on and stuff like fans power led and what not, but my monitor takes a while to show me whats going on . the first time i turned on my computer the monitor kicked on just as it finished reading the memory in post then the whole system shut off. i tried turning it on again and the monitor light turned green like it was on but nothing was on the screen, it clicked(the sound when you turn a monitor on) a few times then the system shut off again before i could see anything. it was working yesterday, the only thing i did was took the heatsink off so i could but my temp probe under it to see temp on case and took the ram out so i didnt snap it with the screwdriver trying to take heatsink off, im thinking its a ram problem but i dont know. please please help me
 
If you happen to have it set to already boot from CD rom first burn a copy of memtest86 and see if it will run it. If it will you will get your answer to if it's a memory problem or not.
 
yea i cant even get that far, i let my computer sit while i was at work and when i turned it on it went through post and everything then the next screen came up and recognized my sata harddrive then the screen that lists all your controllers came up and it said Verifying DMI Pool (i think thats what it says before windows loads up) then it shut off and if i try to turn it on after wards it doesnt even go to post it will recognize my vcard on a screen before post but thats all
 
What I'm saying is that most mobo's are set by default to boot from CD rom first. So burn a copy (or make a floppy) of memtest86 and stick it in the A: or the CD drive and see if it will boot from that. If it does then give your memory a quick test.
 
the memery is in there fine ive taken it out and put it in like 5 times, even if i put the cd rom it it doesnt get that far enough to boot from the cd it will just shut off, i dont have the little internal speaker plugged in either would probably help if i did plug it in though
 
You don't know if the memory is fine. Memory can look fine on the outside and be badly damaged on the inside. Memtest is meant to bypass ALL booting and boot itself from a floppy or CD. When it boots it runs checks of the memory and flip flops each 1/0. When it runs a full test it shows whether or not the memory has any errors. So just try it and see if it will boot to floppy or CD, it's always worth a shot.
 
the first time i turned on my computer the monitor kicked on just as it finished reading the memory in post then the whole system shut off. i tried turning it on again and the monitor light turned green like it was on but nothing was on the screen, it clicked(the sound when you turn a monitor on) a few times then the system shut off again before i could see anything
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VGA card seated properly? voltage issues?
 
i havent messed with the video card in a while so it should be fine ill check it, but how can i tell if its a voltage problem the p4 is plugged in fine and everything else is connected
 
Use bios or a hardware monitor to see if the actual voltage being delivered is the voltage that was expected :)
 
ok i dont think its a voltage problem because i brought my computer to school to work on it during class, i took a stick of ram out of one of the schools computers and put it in mine and it booted up fine and stuff but when i ran easytune 5 it said my cpu was running at 85 degrees celcius :eek:
So i shut it off real fast and now its doing what it was doing before with my ram in there shutting off before it loads windows, when i went into bios to check and see if it was just easytune reading the cpu wrong in bios it said the cpu was running at 109 degrees celcius which means it has to be reading the temp wrong because it cant get that hot without frying can it, its an AMD XP+ Barton 2500 even when its underclocked that much it still runs extremely hot. The heatsink wasnt burning my fingers either when i touched it to check, because if it was at 109 degrees the heatsink would get hot isntantly. but i did happen to get it to run memtest86 and it found 50 errors in my ram stick but shut off during test 6 or something like that. *Sigh* im starting to not like this computer all its givin me is problems
 
ok update to the problem, its something to do with the motherboard. i had to underclock it down to 1.1 to test all this stuff. Bios says its running at 94 C idle but i put my temp probe thing for my lcd under the heatsink and it is saying 117 F so for some reason my motherboard is reading it wrong would that mean that i should flash bios and see if that fixes it. the computer seems to shut off when it gets to 100C but i dont have anything set for it to shut off in bios so it must be a standard setting on the motherboard or something
 
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