Author Topic: PLEASE HELP!! Puter won't Boot (Read 844 times)

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #15 on:** November 05, 2006, 09:07:45 AM »

Hey Daven. I just went through some watermelon like that with my puter and we have the exact same RAM!!! I pulled one stick (the left one) and thiings got a bit better. Then put the 'bad' stick back in i could get to bios but still hung at various points throughout the startup. FInally, after rebooting about 4 times my system is alive and well?? Still dont know what the heck was going on. Maybe worth a try.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #16 on:** November 05, 2006, 12:06:27 PM »

Thanks WH wii try it.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #17 on:** November 05, 2006, 12:19:23 PM »

I may be too busy this week to troubleshoot my old rig.

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WhiteHawk · « **Reply #18 on:** November 05, 2006, 12:53:43 PM »

Hey man. Me and the wife and kids could stop by for a cupple of weeks and try to find the problem, no charge:D

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #19 on:** November 05, 2006, 01:05:00 PM »

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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
Hey man. Me and the wife and kids could stop by for a cupple of weeks and try to find the problem, no charge:D

LOL, thanks for the offer.

Actually, I am going to Guam early in the AM and won't be home enough to do much till I finish my Nov work schedule on the 16th.

Dave

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 05, 2006, 03:36:34 PM »

If you need one to get you going, I have my old setup gathering dust in the closet. Not the latest or the greatest but it would at least get you in the air. Let me know if you need it, I can work something out with you on getting it to you. I work downtown during the day.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #21 on:** November 05, 2006, 03:57:44 PM »

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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
If you need one to get you going, I have my old setup gathering dust in the closet. Not the latest or the greatest but it would at least get you in the air. Let me know if you need it, I can work something out with you on getting it to you. I work downtown during the day.

Thanks SOA,
I really don't have time to play till my days off start on the 16th, and my new parts should be here by then. If I get desperate, I can always play onthis laptop.

Mahalo,
Dave

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #22 on:** November 07, 2006, 06:45:10 PM »

well, bad news man. Both my Mushkins died in the power outage. Dont know how, ive had them for about 3 years now and they have survived many a power outage. If you want to see if this is causing your delimma, download and run memtest86. (search memtest). You have to get it on a bootable a: and slip it in the slot prior to startup. IT runs itself. Many errors, few passes on either stick. Dont know what happened.

handy169 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 07, 2006, 06:46:28 PM »

hey .. i think they have a lifetime warranty if you contact mushkin you may be able to get them replaced for free ..

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #24 on:** November 08, 2006, 06:59:14 AM »

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Originally posted by handy169
hey .. i think they have a lifetime warranty if you contact mushkin you may be able to get them replaced for free ..

WOW..WIll do, thnx for the advice.!!!

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #25 on:** November 08, 2006, 05:30:05 PM »

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Originally posted by WhiteHawk
well, bad news man. Both my Mushkins died in the power outage. Dont know how, ive had them for about 3 years now and they have survived many a power outage. If you want to see if this is causing your delimma, download and run memtest86. (search memtest). You have to get it on a bootable a: and slip it in the slot prior to startup. IT runs itself. Many errors, few passes on either stick. Dont know what happened.

I already have a Memtest disk, so will try it. Might not have time till I finish putting tohether my Conroe rig.

All the parts arrrived at once an hour ago. Usual great service from Neweeg - Ordered Sat night and delivered in Hawaii on Wed by noon.

Thanks for info,
Dave

WhiteHawk · « **Reply #26 on:** November 08, 2006, 05:49:51 PM »

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Originally posted by DAVENRINO
Usual great service from Neweeg - Ordered Sat night and delivered in Hawaii on Wed by noon.

Thanks for info,
Dave

Tell me about it, i ordered my new ram sunday afternoon and got it tuesday. Thats almost scary.

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #27 on:** November 09, 2006, 02:34:01 PM »

VERY STRANGE,
I tried to run Memtest but couldn't get to BIOS to change boot order. Windows booted normally. After backing up everything to another HDD and DVD, I ran Memtest for 7 hours with no errors. I also error-checked both Hdds with none found. Everything is working normally again but I don't really get a warm fuzzy feeling since I didn't do anything to fix it.

Thanks for the suggestions!
Dave

Roscoroo · « **Reply #28 on:** November 09, 2006, 03:19:55 PM »

this on ur a7n8x machine ? if so you have the "startup " problem .. fans run .. but no boot beep . mine does this when its been shut off for awhile. but when ever it does this I have to enter the bios and then exit ...its like the bios doesnt set the clocking correct , but after that quick bios look it goes back to were its clocked at .

DAVENRINO · « **Reply #29 on:** November 09, 2006, 04:20:01 PM »

Rosco,
Not exactly,memory check and boot beep were normal but POST hung on IDE detection. I couldn't start in SAFE or even get to BIOS.