Quasimodo

On the heels of resolving my daughter's power supply problem (with dai's help), I have another that I suspect could be the power supply, however, with different symptoms.

For starters my son's computer is the following:
Video card: NVidia GE Force 6200
CPU: AMD Athlon MP 1.00 GHz
Motherboard: PC Chips M863G 5.1
RAM: 1028MB DDR 333 mhz

Power Supply: I believe it is a LPJ2-20 400w.

The problem:
When I turn on the computer, it will not start windows. It occasionally gets to the black windows loading screen, but then gives me a blue screen, which flashes so fast that I can't even read it to see what the error is. Then it restarts. Sometimes when it restarts, it will go through the beginning black screen that shows everything loading and the memory being counted, but then it freezes--that can happen anytime during the process--and restarts. It has taken to not loading at all, but the computer is getting power. It just sits there.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I should add that in looking closer at the computer, I'm noticing that the fan (I think it's the fan) on the motherboard (the unit on top of where the chip is) is making a lot of noise. The computer still won't boot up. :(

wrench97

Can you get to the Bios and check the voltages?

Page 47(of the pdf file) of the manual here: http://download.ecsusa.com/dlfilepcc...63AG-G_15D.pdf
Press the delete key when first booting to enter the Bios setup(You may have to let the pc cool off a while with the problem your having)

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Quasimodo

K, I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for, but this is what is in the System Hardware Monitor:

Vcore: 1.600V
Vcc2.5V: 2.464V
Vddg: 1.488V
Vcc5V: 5.053V
SB3V: 3.472V
CPU fan speed: 4821 RPM (at one point switched to 4867 RPM, then switched back pretty quickly)
System fan speed: 0 RPM
CPU Temp: 69 degrees C/156 degrees F
System Temp: 43 degrees C/109 degrees F

TIA~Kristi

I also forgot to mention that I made an error...the computer has an AMD Sempron processor. I can't get to any specific information to my knowledge since the computer won't open windows for me. If I need to get that info and someone can tell me how, I would be glad to. :)

wrench97

I would really like to see the 12v measurement it should be right around the 5v reading.
Was the system cold when you got those temps the CPU temp is a little especially if it was just turned on. If thats the case check the fan and heat sink on the CPU is the spinning when the pc is turned on? And is the heat sink tight to the mother board be careful it may be hot.

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dai

redo the paste on the cpu with some arctic silver for starters
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_s...structions.htm
tap f8 when booting and from the boot options try
last known good configuration
the psu is the same as the last one actually a 200w with insufficient amps on the 12v line

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Quasimodo

Ok, my husband and I were able to devise a little plan to read the blue screen text that seems to elude us every time. We took a video and paused it so we could read the text and it says this:

STOP C000218 {registry file failure}
This registry cannot load the hive (file):
\systemroot\system32\Config\SOFTWARE
or its log or alternate.
It is corrupt, absent or not writable.

Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or your technical support group for further assistance.

Hubby figured out that the noise we are hearing is not coming from the power supply, the CPU fan or the hard drive, but from the DVD/CD rom drive. I'm not sure if that's always been the case, but we didn't hear any weird noises coming from any of those things after spending about an hour or so with it going through the restarting cycle time and again.

TIA~Kristi

dai

look here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/

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Quasimodo

Thanks Dai. I googled my error message and got something on another site, tried that, but it didn't work out. I did, however, figure out how to get a command prompt, so I formatted the C drive and started all over again. It works great now.

Thanks for all your help, everyone!

dai

glad you have it sorted

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