Rig Problems...

[scorchiooo]

Hi all

I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me. I am having a few problems with my Rig.

I was about to play CS and my computer blue screened on me. It auto restarted after the memory dump but then it would'nt load windows. It was only getting to the option to start windows normally, upon selecting that option it would blue screen again and restart.

I then held the power off button down for 5 secs so it was completely off. Now whenever I power up the computer all the fans spin up, the hard drive light on the case is lit, DVD drive flashes and then the computer just restarts after approximately 10 seconds. The monitor does not power up. It does this over and over again until I manually switch it off. There are no beeps from the computer at all.

I bought all of the components from Overclockers at the same time a few months ago and they have been functioning without problems until now.

Spec:
C2D 6600 (Not Overclocked)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320MB
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-8500 1066MHz SLI-Ready
Western Digital Raptor 36GB (Main Windows Drive)
Antec Nine Hundred
Noctua NH-U12F Heatsink
OS: Vista Ultimate 32

I am not at all sure what the problem is, but I am guessing it is the motherboard or PSU. Eveything is cooled well and the room the computer is in is air conditioned, so the hottest piece of hardware in the case never goes above 41 degrees C and that is the Raptor while defragging. Everything else is at 28 to 34 degrees C even under heavy load.

Any help anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Scorch.

 

[2wenty4our]

If it's only 10 seconds or so, then it's probably not getting as far as windows and sounds like a motherboard problem, but say for a second it is, try putting a bootable cd in the drive and see if it holds up this reset process, it probably won't, but it's nice to rule things out.

I have verbal POST on mine, so i usually know if I'm in serious trouble if i can't even hear that, and if your motherboard doesn't have an on-board speaker, well you wouldn't hear beeps anyway.

If you've never changed anything in the BIOS, I guess you could try erasing the settings in RAM.
Without being familiar with your board, it's usually a case of changing jumpers on the board for about 10 seconds and/or replacing the battery, though consult your manual for your procedure.

My experience is that sometimes even erasing the settings doesn't fix things, and you have to unplug everything, erase the settings and then proceed to re-plug things one at a time. Don't know why, guess a fesh BIOS seeing everything plugged in all at once may be confusing.

I'm sure someone else is more familiar with your board though.