Post-Upgrade Boot - Shutdown on Windows Loading

Tigjaw · 14 Dec 2010 at 18:43

Hi guys,

My brother wanted an upgrade for his old eMachines 5240 setup so he bought a new motherboard (Gigabyte S-Series Micro-ATX GA-G31M-ES2L) and I gave him my old RAM (GSkill DDR2 PC-6400 2Gb). He installed the same CPU (P4 515 2.93 GHz) and reinstalled windows.

The computer boots (single bios beep which == success apparently), looks fine and then gets to the 'Windows - Loading' screen but it goes off so quickly you barely have time to see the Windows logo.
EDIT: The computer restarts and goes to the screen asking you if you want to start in safe mode etc... each of these options yielded the same results. All this is on a fresh re-install of windows.

Don't suppose anyone can tell us what's wrong?

nb: We'll be expecting an E6750 soon I hope but this processor should work anyway in the mean time right?

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Tig

EDIT: It now seems to be the XP install, he used my disc and it worked.

RJC · 14 Dec 2010 at 18:46

Sorry, just to confirm, the system shuts down as in power down / off or restarts!

Have you re-installed windows.

Tigjaw · 14 Dec 2010 at 18:54

RJC said:
Sorry, just to confirm, the system shuts down as in power down / off or restarts!

Have you re-installed windows.

Sorry about that, wasn't very clear.
The computer restarts and goes to the screen asking you if you want to start in safe mode etc... each of these options yielded the same results. All this is on a fresh re-install of windows.

RJC · 14 Dec 2010 at 18:58

Hmm, wonder if the memory voltage requires increasing in the BIOS, as some need 2.2v.
This will be displayed on the side of each module.

Tigjaw · 14 Dec 2010 at 19:10

RJC said:
Hmm, wonder if the memory voltage requires increasing in the BIOS, as some need 2.2v.
This will be displayed on the side of each module.

The RAM modules say 2.0 - 2.1v but we could check it anyway? I haven't a clue what's wrong, a problem like this is down to some trivial mistake but surely being able to 'successfully' (and i use that term loosely) re-install windows negates the possibility of such trivial errors.

Tigjaw · 14 Dec 2010 at 20:50

BIOS PC Health Status says:
Vcore: 1.348v
DDR18v: 1.928v
+3.3v: 3.296v
+12v: 11.795v

Does the bold part indicate the voltage for the RAM which as I specified, requires 2.0 - 2.1v? I tried upping the RAM overvoltage control for the RAM in the MIT section by +0.1v and then +0.2v but it made no difference.