BIG problem doing my head in.

[Trigger]

When you say it won't post without the soundcard in, do you get any beeps or error messages on screen etc?

 

[furnace]

anyway ive unplugged it and im going to ebay it all and buy an xbox 360 i think.

C'mon dude, don't give up. You just happened to either get a faulty component or make a mistake. Just fix it, you'll be well grateful when you do.

 

[eracer2006]

the system never beeps!

i get

CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE. that msg has only just started coming up, and the lockups are getting worse and worse.

 

[kingy666]

It should post without a sound card installed after all it does have onboard sound anyway. One thing you should check, and this may sound strange, is the cmos jumper set on the right pins as some one was posting on this forum a couple of weeks ago with similar rebooting problems and it turned out he was booting with the CMOS jumper set to reset. as soon as he put the jumper back to the right pins everything was fine.

 

[eracer2006]

ok the jumper is next to the battery right ? all i see is 2 pins sticking up, there isnt an actuall jumper on them ????

 

[kingy666]

OK thats how it should be, just 2 pins. If you put the jumper on these pins then its set to reset, so when you power up the pc make sure the jumper is not on these pins.

 

[eracer2006]

i dont have a jumper at all.

could it be the battery i have comes loose, or the battery is running out of power ?

 

[kingy666]

How have you reset the CMOS if you dont have a jumper? you can reset by using a screwdriver to make a contact between the 2 pins for about 10 seconds but make sure the power is off first. your battery should probably last at least 5 years so i dont think thats your problem. Also in your bios settings, do you have your HDD to run in IDE mode?

 

[eracer2006]

why would a sata hdd run in ide mode ? lol

ive had it playing games and running for hours on end in the past, and then it just hangs and have to reset cmos to clear the problem.

recently its getting worse and worse, now i can barely boot before it happens, i think its windows but i dont want it to happen halfway through installing it!

 

[kingy666]

Have you checked your temps for your cpu after a lockup?
How fast have you got your memory running?
Merry xmas?

 

[.:dhry:. SiroVa]

Maybe its just a faulty mobo

 

[JackRegan]

When you installed windows was your system overclocked at all? In the past i've experienced instability after installing with overclocked CPU/RAM.

How sure are you that the system drivers are correct? I recall an MSI Neo2 Play board I bought that had RAID drivers which didn't work.

If I were you, I would obtain all the up to date drivers for your system, update to the latest bios and do a clean install of Windows with only one stick of RAM Installed.

Good luck

Jack

 

[eracer2006]

thankyou.

i do have something wierd that there all the time, a pci device with a little yellow question mark next to it, everytime i boot it says install new hardware, finds nothing, and theres nothing to install ?

 

[JackRegan]

Could be your chipset drivers?

IMO a reinstall would be an hour well spent. Then you can move on to check each item of harware.

Jack

 

[eracer2006]

thats what im going to do tommorow!

then memtest again for 24 hours argh

 

[eracer2006]

what slot should i put the 1gb stick in if im running it on its own ? i belive they are both in the red slots or both in yellow cant remember which ?

 

[krisboats]

I don't know for sure, but with computers i've fiddled with i've always stuck them in the first RAM slot.

Definately re-install windows first, my mums laptop used to randomly freeze when idle and i had to fiddle to get it working again each time, installed windows and it went weird, installed again and it crashed halfway through, installed a third time and its been fine ever since, not crashed once.