Please help! Major flaky PC syndrome!

Quirky_puppy · 08-20-2004, 09:04 AM

I have an intermittent problem with my PC and its driving me nuts!
Its a 1.33 mhz AMD athlon in an MSI Lite motherboard with 512mb PC133 SDRAM, 64mb Geforce2 ultra and two Seagate HDDs (4.3 & 40gb)
It fine some of the time, but sometimes when I hit the power on button, the PSU & CPU fans will start but nothing happens. No beep, no signal
to the monitor.
After this happens, repeated efforts to boot will see it hanging either at: "Verifying DMI pool data..." or just in windows. It'll flash up the windows ME
screen and then go blank or it'll go into windows, and the mouse will move but you can't do anything. Can't click on anything, the keyboard doesn't
respond etc...
Sometimes it'll work fine for hours before the screen just cuts out. Turning it on again gives a "No signal input or cable disconnected" screen.
I also get what appears to be loads of "Flaky windows" problems where it'll crash out of whatever game I'm running, or lock up and give me the BSOD.

I've spoken to several 'experts' from my local pc shop to an IT guy at work and I've been given a variety of different answers. Someone said it was a dodgy mother board, someone else said it was the chip. Yet another guy said it was probably faulty ram and the last person I asked said the biggest cause of irregular instability was temperature!

Any advise would be much appreciated! anyone had any similar problems?

Quirky_puppy · 08-20-2004, 09:25 AM

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention.
I built it myself, and its worked fine for about a month, before it started getting flaky.

CTSNKY · 08-20-2004, 09:31 AM

Make sure your memory sticks are firmly seated on the board. May want to try swapping them out with ones known to work as a test.

08-20-2004, 09:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
Quirky_puppy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 8 OS: ME	Please help! Major flaky PC syndrome! I have an intermittent problem with my PC and its driving me nuts! Its a 1.33 mhz AMD athlon in an MSI Lite motherboard with 512mb PC133 SDRAM, 64mb Geforce2 ultra and two Seagate HDDs (4.3 & 40gb) It fine some of the time, but sometimes when I hit the power on button, the PSU & CPU fans will start but nothing happens. No beep, no signal to the monitor. After this happens, repeated efforts to boot will see it hanging either at: "Verifying DMI pool data..." or just in windows. It'll flash up the windows ME screen and then go blank or it'll go into windows, and the mouse will move but you can't do anything. Can't click on anything, the keyboard doesn't respond etc... Sometimes it'll work fine for hours before the screen just cuts out. Turning it on again gives a "No signal input or cable disconnected" screen. I also get what appears to be loads of "Flaky windows" problems where it'll crash out of whatever game I'm running, or lock up and give me the BSOD. I've spoken to several 'experts' from my local pc shop to an IT guy at work and I've been given a variety of different answers. Someone said it was a dodgy mother board, someone else said it was the chip. Yet another guy said it was probably faulty ram and the last person I asked said the biggest cause of irregular instability was temperature! Any advise would be much appreciated! anyone had any similar problems?

08-20-2004, 09:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
Quirky_puppy Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 8 OS: ME	Oh, one thing I forgot to mention. I built it myself, and its worked fine for about a month, before it started getting flaky.

08-20-2004, 09:31 AM	#3 (permalink)
CTSNKY Knower of all that is MS Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 10,755 OS: (multiple machines) 95, 98, 2K & XP Home & Pro	Make sure your memory sticks are firmly seated on the board. May want to try swapping them out with ones known to work as a test.