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Message 1
My Specs; Athlon Xp1500, 128mb DDR ram, 40Gb Seagate barracuda 4 (i think!), Abit KG7-Raid Motherboard, 300w PSU, Liteonit 40x48x12, ATI allinwonder128 16mb.
Hi, I had a computer (which I built) working perfectly until I started messing with partition magic. To cut a long story short, I decided that I would backup my important stuff and then repartition with FDISK, then reinstall windows Xp. I did this and there was no problem. Then, when I installed the Black and White game, and played on it for a while, the computer suddenly restarted by itself. It carried on doing this, even when I wasn't on that game. I then worked out that the computer blue screened when I did the dxdiag "test direct3d", so I disabled direct3d accelaration. Anyway, I then couldn't rip cds, so I decided to make my Slave cd/rw drive the master, and the master cd drive the slave.(as FreeRip Mp3 only recognises the master) this didn't work either, so I changed them back, and it booted up with the mouse and keyboard not working. I restarted, and then they did work. On the next restart, the computer displayes a weird message about the floppy drive, and doesn't boot. I restart and realise that it isn't detecting the hard drive etc in the power on check. When I reboot again, I just get a 2 or 3 second beep, repeated after 1 second. This is all I could get out of it, even when I unplugged both cd drives, all the pci cards and the agp graphics card and plugged in a replacement pci graphics card and replacement hard drive. If I unplug the ram, I get a different type of beep, but still no response on screen. I am going to try a different stick of ram when I can get hold of it on tuesday. Resetting the cmos jumper did nothing either.
I have not recently fitted any new hardware(except the cd/rw drive which has been in for a few months working fine. I haven't updated the bios recently. I had just installed the Antivirus prog (AVG antivirus free edition) but hadn't had a chance to do a scan.
Help PLEASE!
Innus.
(p.s. Sorry it's so long!)
Mesage 2;
Hi, well I can't get the comp to even display anything on the screen yet, so I will have to get a virus thingy on disk. The cooling is advertised as sufficiant for an xp1900 I think. Its had been running at about 37degrees, but I think that the game pumped up the temp to about 45 degrees. I hope that the cpu ain't burned out! The fans (both case and cpu) still spin when I turn on...The graphics card doesn't have one, but if I replaced the card, surrely that would fix the problem?
Message 3;
I have just read in the manual " don't plug atapi devices into the raid card " but I don't have a raid card, only 4 ide ports , 2 of which support raid due to a highpoint chipset. This is what I plugged the cd/rw into after I read that copying cds is quicker when both devices are on different ide ports. Is this what has made my comp go weird? As I did this on the same day that the comp went weird. Has it damaged the motherboard? Also, the beeping is the same as when I hadn't fitted my graphics card properly when I was building my computer first time, but the graphics card is now properly seated, and the comp beeps with a replacement one in as well, so it can't be that
Please can YOU help me?
