PC.. wont boot anymore??

[TW]Fox · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:04

Hi guys,

Grrrr. Got my new 8800GT today. Installed it, booted up fine. Brill! After a few hours of flawlessness I noticed my CPU fan was running at full speed, which it wasn't before, so I shut down and went into the BIOS to check the settings. Sure enough, CPU Fan speed control was disabled. Turned it on, along with System Fan control as well for good measure, and saved settings.

Oh dear. If only I had known it would bring a world of pain..

Machine refused to POST. Got as far as code 52, checking of memory. I've got 4x1Gb sticks of OCZ Platinum in it, so I took two out. POST'ed fine, got into BIOS, etc. How bizarre.

Put the two sticks back in. No POST. Used 3 sticks. No POST. Using the original 2 sticks, POST.

Ok, well 4Gb is overkill anyway, so I left the two other sticks on the side and decided to go back to using 2Gb for now.

Machine POST's, put in all my settings as per normal, save and exit, goes to load windows...

Bam. BSOD. CONFIG_INFO_ERROR or suchlike. Reset - same again, although this time just a generic STOP error.

Utterly confused. It was all working fine!

Help!?

IP35 Pro
E4300 (Now not overclocked for troubleshooting purposes
2Gb OCZ Platinum
BFG 8800GT

[TW]Fox · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:08

Ok now I'm back in Windows with it :confused:

Richdog · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:11

Try resetting the BIOS if it does it again.

[TW]Fox · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:13

I've done that numerous times.

Going back to restore my original settings again now. Sure it wont work but hey..

Richdog · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:15

What is it with you and computer mishaps...

[TW]Fox · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:23

I'm just totally confused. I am typing this on my laptop as my main machine sits running 3dmarks.... with 4Gb of ram, running at 3Ghz, and with fan speed control enabled :confused:

WTF was that about? lol

melbourne720 · 31 Oct 2007 at 15:55

Is your PSU perhaps getting old? As it happened when you replaced a power-hungry part, that could be the issue.

Make and Model of PSU please, + number of years service

ardy89 · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:48

[TW]Fox;10390342 said:
I'm just totally confused. I am typing this on my laptop as my main machine sits running 3dmarks.... with 4Gb of ram, running at 3Ghz, and with fan speed control enabled

WTF was that about? lol

I suggest maybe runnin memtest on your memory, I often found that When I had a faulty stick of Ram aswell as a couple of working ones it would work fine for weeks and then start bsod'ing and failing to post randomly!

Only takes a few minutes and rules out memory for been the cause!

misterPK · 31 Oct 2007 at 16:48

melbourne720 said:
Is your PSU perhaps getting old? As it happened when you replaced a power-hungry part, that could be the issue.

I was going to suggest the same thing, unless you knocked anything when putting the card in.

PK!

[TW]Fox · 31 Oct 2007 at 23:16

melbourne720 said:
Make and Model of PSU please, + number of years service

Corsair HX520, 3 months service