Soldato
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Hey folks, I built my brother a PC a couple of months ago, it was the following;
1x Pioneer DVR-112DBK 18x DVD1RW Dual Layer Internal IDE
1 x Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 690V Socket AM2 Onboard VGA
1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Socket AM2 Retail
1 x 500W PSU (Unbranded!)
1 x Netgear WG111T Wireless Network Adapter 108mbps 802.11g
1 x Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache
1 x Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 675MHz/PC2-5400
Anyway! Up until last week it was running fine, then all of a sudden it randomly BSOD, then when rebooted, wouldn't POST, the beep was a series of long beeps (with a gap of a second or so between each beep)
That has happened pretty much every time you restart after the hanging/crashing etc.
There was no display etc.
I have my suspicions on the following;
1) PSU
2) Onboard VGA
3) Memory
4) Netgear USB Adaptor
I have eliminated the Memory now, as memtest showed no errors.
The thing is, it randomly BSOD's in Vista now, but it really, in the main, seems to happen when viewing videos, ie youtube or something.
A couple of the Blue screens have had usb errors, but there is ONLY 1 USB device plugged in, which is the Netgear USB adaptor, and I don't see how that can work fine for months and then just break.
Also, my brother told me, the screen looked artifacted at one point also, but that could just be a coincidence.
The PSU is one I think may need changing for the fact of getting a branded one, and to eliminate the problem, but the onboard VGA remains suspect if those beeps occured? As I read they could be to do with the display adaptor?
Before anyone tells me I should have got a cheap graphics card and branded PSU, I know, and it's just I had to build to a budget, and so will be inevitably added them anyway lol!
Thanks in advance for any help...
1x Pioneer DVR-112DBK 18x DVD1RW Dual Layer Internal IDE
1 x Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2 690V Socket AM2 Onboard VGA
1 x AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Socket AM2 Retail
1 x 500W PSU (Unbranded!)
1 x Netgear WG111T Wireless Network Adapter 108mbps 802.11g
1 x Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache
1 x Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 675MHz/PC2-5400
Anyway! Up until last week it was running fine, then all of a sudden it randomly BSOD, then when rebooted, wouldn't POST, the beep was a series of long beeps (with a gap of a second or so between each beep)
That has happened pretty much every time you restart after the hanging/crashing etc.
There was no display etc.
I have my suspicions on the following;
1) PSU
2) Onboard VGA
3) Memory
4) Netgear USB Adaptor
I have eliminated the Memory now, as memtest showed no errors.
The thing is, it randomly BSOD's in Vista now, but it really, in the main, seems to happen when viewing videos, ie youtube or something.
A couple of the Blue screens have had usb errors, but there is ONLY 1 USB device plugged in, which is the Netgear USB adaptor, and I don't see how that can work fine for months and then just break.
Also, my brother told me, the screen looked artifacted at one point also, but that could just be a coincidence.
The PSU is one I think may need changing for the fact of getting a branded one, and to eliminate the problem, but the onboard VGA remains suspect if those beeps occured? As I read they could be to do with the display adaptor?
Before anyone tells me I should have got a cheap graphics card and branded PSU, I know, and it's just I had to build to a budget, and so will be inevitably added them anyway lol!
Thanks in advance for any help...
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