Boot Problems/Bluescreen

[Tempus950]

I was playing world of warcraft yesterday, and all of a sudden my PC goes to a BSOD. Im running a AMD 2100+, 512mb DDr, Gigabyte GA-Vaxp motherboard, Geforce fx5900 xt

When i restarted I got the same message again, and so I put in the windows cd, but no luck, same message. then it started. I power it up, no beep, nothing, all the fans run, the cd drive whirs, but no bios, nothing, the screen goes to green light then back to orange. whats going on? Should I replace the hd or the CPU?

The temps are fine, i got a really nice CPu Fan that keeps it round the mid 50s and the mobo chip and the GFX card are fine too, but it wont boot anymore, and I tried taking the cpu out and putting it back in. that worked a couple times, but sadly ended at bsod eventually, but now it wont even start.

Halp pls.

[sweeper2]

what message, besides (BSOD) ??


could it be the MB... my bios in my MB went out and everything pwrd up but the screen wouldn't boot,...i didn't even get a green light on the monitor.

could be the HD also.. do you have another HD to try ? maybe try and reset the bios on the MB...

[Tempus950]

Im hoping that its not the mb, thats gonna be a big pain in the ass. I put in another hd, it wasnt formatted yet. it loaded up and I forgot to hit boot to cd, and it went ahead and loaded to windows, and displayed desktop even, then just froze. that was the last time it ever booted, now it wont even bootup. if im not getting a greenlight on the monitor, and there are no bios beeps, does that mean that the MB is down? or is the CPU needed to start the bios? and how do I reset the BIOS? Im gonna try unplugging the mb p/s and try plugging it back in, but beyond that I have no other clue. I didnt even have to touch the jumpers ever when I built it so I have no clue about it. Thing is, yesterday afternoon we had a power cut, and the PC got shut off rather suddenly, is it possible that the power failure could have had anything to do with it?

[johnnyis42]

it is quite possible that the power problem in your home had somehting to do with it. do you use a power strip or plug your computer directly into the wall? it may have had a surge prior to the power outtage, which would have possibly caused problems.

to reset the bios, there should be a CMOS reset jumper somehwere ont he motherboard near the battery. usually it is 3 pins with a jumper jumping 2 of the pins. all you need to do is pull the jumper off, then jump the 2 pins on the opposite side from where it was sitting originally.

also, when you try to boot, to the fans and drives power up at all? look inside the computer to see if you notice anything that looks or sounds "sick" or slower than usual.

if allt hat goes without fixing anything, the first thing you need to do is try re-seating your video card (pull it out of the AGP slot and then plug it back in), and then remove any other pci cards you have in the computer. make sure your power supply is physically unplugged from the power cord when you do this. also, disconnect any USB/firewire devices then plug the power cord back in and see if your system boots up.

if not, try disconnecting all of your drives and see if your system at least gets to the "no system disk" error or somehting of that nature. if it does get that far, plug your hard drive back in and see if it boots. if it doesn't, it may still be your motherboard, but it is most likely the drive, and it is easy enough to test the drive in another system. you may also want to connect the drive to the other IDE port on the motherboard and see if it boots from there. if it does, and has no problems, then you most likely have a problem with the motherboard.

however, if at this point your system does not boot, try pulling out your memory modules one by one and see if removing them will allow the system to boot. if none of the memory modules allow the system to boot, or if you only have a single module, see if the system will give you BIOS error code beeps with no memory in the board at all. by this point you will have narrowed the problem down to your motherboard or processor, or both, or many other components that you cannot verify because the main components of the system are not working correctly. either way, you will have a good idea where you stand.

good luck, keep us posted!