Hello chaps, could do with a bit of advice here as i'm royally stuck.
The problem started about 2 weeks ago when my screen when blank shortly followed by my computer restarting whilst playing a game. It did this a few more times at random intervals 5-10 mins while just on the desktop. I did not get a bsod or a stop code, the screen just goes blank, but sometimes after it had crashed there would be an error in event logs, which referred to a 1000007f error code (not sure on how many zeros) i looked this up and it seems to a rather vague code which is often down to a memory error.
So i restored back a while thinking it was a driver error or software conflict.
This solved the problem for a while, and i had no further trouble whilst gaming.
However, the problem returned yesterday also while playing a game it crashed as before, and kept on doing so, before windows even had a chance to boot, though it would post fine. So i left my computer on overnight running memtest, and after 8 hours there were no errors. So i can take memory corruption out of the equation. I came back from work and just tried switching on as normal, and it would only start up for about 3 seconds, and then just continually reset itself.
So, simple i thought, it must be my graphics card. I swapped it out with a crappy geforce 5200. And then the computer wouldn't boot at all, no lights turn on, no hard drives spin, the fans try and spin, and just kind of judder in place.
Now this is the position i am in now, at the moment i'm thinking it's my psu. And am trying to find a spare one around the house that i can test with.
Any input would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Ganesh.
Specs:
win xp home sp2
Asus a7n8x deluxe
Athlon xp 3000
1.75gb crucial ddr 333
BFG 6800 GS agp
vantec stealth 430w PSU
Also, something i should mention, is that my computer has done the restarting thing when initially switched on before. But only when i've been fiddling around with it, or have unplugged it and moved it. But it has always kicked in and started properly shortly.
The problem started about 2 weeks ago when my screen when blank shortly followed by my computer restarting whilst playing a game. It did this a few more times at random intervals 5-10 mins while just on the desktop. I did not get a bsod or a stop code, the screen just goes blank, but sometimes after it had crashed there would be an error in event logs, which referred to a 1000007f error code (not sure on how many zeros) i looked this up and it seems to a rather vague code which is often down to a memory error.
So i restored back a while thinking it was a driver error or software conflict.
This solved the problem for a while, and i had no further trouble whilst gaming.
However, the problem returned yesterday also while playing a game it crashed as before, and kept on doing so, before windows even had a chance to boot, though it would post fine. So i left my computer on overnight running memtest, and after 8 hours there were no errors. So i can take memory corruption out of the equation. I came back from work and just tried switching on as normal, and it would only start up for about 3 seconds, and then just continually reset itself.
So, simple i thought, it must be my graphics card. I swapped it out with a crappy geforce 5200. And then the computer wouldn't boot at all, no lights turn on, no hard drives spin, the fans try and spin, and just kind of judder in place.
Now this is the position i am in now, at the moment i'm thinking it's my psu. And am trying to find a spare one around the house that i can test with.
Any input would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks,
Ganesh.
Specs:
win xp home sp2
Asus a7n8x deluxe
Athlon xp 3000
1.75gb crucial ddr 333
BFG 6800 GS agp
vantec stealth 430w PSU
Also, something i should mention, is that my computer has done the restarting thing when initially switched on before. But only when i've been fiddling around with it, or have unplugged it and moved it. But it has always kicked in and started properly shortly.
