SpiderLlama

I recently started another thread here for help on getting a new motherboard. Well I got all the things I ordered yesterday, I took all my old stuff out, plugged all my new stuff in, put it all together. I double checked everything and it looks all right, so I hook it up to my monitor and keyboard, plug it into the wall, flip the power switch, and turn it on. IT STARTS! Yea, I was happy, but it boots to the screen I was getting before my computer died last time.

"Window was turned off unexpectedly blah blah blah... Would you like to open windows in safe mode? Safe mode with networking? Safe mode with command prompt? Open window in last know working mode? Open windows normally?"

SO I figure this was cool, so I opened it in the last time it was working, but instead of opening windows, my computer just turns off. So I turn it back on and try to open normally. Same thing happens. I turned it back on and tried Safe mode. Same thing happens. So I figured that I'd go into setup. So I turn on the computer and hold F2 going into setup. I look around there for a bit and was almost about to exit when my computer just turns off. The same thing that started happening before my old motherboard fried! But last time it did that we blamed it on the PSU. I have a brand new 500W PSU, so what's wrong?! I started up my computer again and this time I tried to start normally, and it started to show the windows loading screen but then suddenly it rebooted. So I tried again when it came up, and it did the same thing! So now it's not turning off when I try to start it up, it just starts over. ***?!
Does anyone know what could be wrong and how to fix it? I just spent $230 on a motherboard and parts and I would like to have it fixed befor I leave for vacation on the 5th. Any and all help will be greatly apreciated. Thanks.

jnob

Sounds like a heat issue with the CPU, or possibly the PSU.

What brand and how many watts and amps is your current power supply?

What processor slot type are you using?

Did you use rubbing alcohol to remove the old thermal compound and reapply new quality compound when placing the CPU & heatsink on the new motherboard?

Is the CPU fan blowing into the heatsink?

Is the heatsink getting warm to the touch before the computer turns off?

Can you monitor the temps of the CPU in bios before the computer turns off?

dai

did you just plug in the old h/drive with windows on it and expect it to start

cfcDevil

Don't you have to go to Repair Windows first when you swap the mobo? I assume the drivers and hardware profile need to be updated when new mobo is installed. I could be wrong.

SpiderLlama

Well I didn't really have time to back up any windows files or anything. My computer just died.

My new PSU fan does blow downward, I didn't think about that. And My new CPU/heatsink didn't come with any thermal grease already on it so I put some on. I followed some instructions on how to apply it on an Artic Silver website. If I applied it wrong, could I redo it without harming anything?

My new PSU is 500W, I don't know how many amps it is, and the new CPU is a 3.04 Ghz Celeron D socket 775.
If over heating is the issue, how do I solve that?

Doby

Hi,

First if you installed a different brand or model number of mobo from the original you have to at least do a repair install of windows this could be your problem but first I would try and determine if there is a hardware problem by unpluging the hdd, then start the computer and go into bios.

Now let the computer idle in bios fo 15 minutes and watch the temps and voltages. Post them here for use to evaluate.

Rick

SpiderLlama

Thank y'all for helping me so far. These forums are very helpful. My dad and I fiddled around with the computer untill 12 last night and determined it's not over heating, the temperature is fine, (though I don't know how well it'll work once I start to really use the computer 'cause my PSU's fan blows down onto the heatsink) it's the hard-drive that is messing up. I have my windows XP repair disk, but once I do that it'll reformat my hard-drive loosing alot of things that I don't want to loose. :S
We put a spare hard-drive that we had around the house in my computer and put windows 98 back on it to run on my computer temporarily, but we're missing the second disk of the 98 setup so I now have a halfway working windows 98 on an old hard-drive on a new computer just so I might be able to recover the old hard drive.
My old hard-drive isn't responding at all. I have it as the slave right now, but when I try to look into it with windows explorer or through dos it says that there is an error on the drive or it just won't read it at all.
Does any one know how I can recover my Hard-drive without losing all my work on it? Thank you for y'alls time.

dai

run chkdsk /r on the drive
do you have a normal windows disk,or just recovery disks

jnob

This is the proper setup. The air blows down into your heatsink pulling cooler air from the side panel fan (if you have one) and pushing the hot air forcing it out from the heatsink. If the fan was blowing away from the heatsink it would not be able to move as much heat away by pulling the air as it does by pushing cooler air into the hot air.

jnob

If not out of your budget it may be a good idea to purchase a new copy of XP. I hear they're going cheap right now. This way you have two options: 1. You can do a repair install on the current hdd you would like to recover without deleting the current files. 2. You can install XP on the drive you're trying to install 98 on and then hook up your original as slave and recover the data.

cfcDevil

At this point, is it possible to take the new stuff out, put the old stuff back in like it once was? That way you will have access to the important data and then backup the data in your hard drive.