vassil3427
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Hi,
About a month ago I put together a nice inexpensive computer system for a friend of mine. It worked fine for about the first week, then...it started randomly rebooting, i wasnt sure what the problem was and I didnt have time to look at it, but this last week it's went from bad to worse, the pc would freeze when windows started to load, I tried to boot in safe mode but it still froze. And then it wouldnt boot at all, nothing, the power supply was running and the cpu fan was running but nothing was happening. So I unplugged it a few times and kept trying to boot it up until it finally started to boot, well it had the lil message "Bad Chesksum" or whatever, so i figured perhaps its the CMOS battery is dead or something, so i bought a new one. No such luck, now it freezes when its detecting the drives, and it wont let me enter the BIOS it totally freezes. And sometimes the screen even pops up with tons of colorful boxs and lots of odd letters and numbers. So i think the mobo's AMI bios chip is messed up, which means I'll have to return it. But what do you guys think the problem is?
Specs of Problem System:
Processor::AMD Duron 950Mhz.
MOBO:ECS K7S5A
HDD:20GB Western Digital 5400rpm
RAm:256mb PC133
Power Supply: Cheap generic 300w
About a month ago I put together a nice inexpensive computer system for a friend of mine. It worked fine for about the first week, then...it started randomly rebooting, i wasnt sure what the problem was and I didnt have time to look at it, but this last week it's went from bad to worse, the pc would freeze when windows started to load, I tried to boot in safe mode but it still froze. And then it wouldnt boot at all, nothing, the power supply was running and the cpu fan was running but nothing was happening. So I unplugged it a few times and kept trying to boot it up until it finally started to boot, well it had the lil message "Bad Chesksum" or whatever, so i figured perhaps its the CMOS battery is dead or something, so i bought a new one. No such luck, now it freezes when its detecting the drives, and it wont let me enter the BIOS it totally freezes. And sometimes the screen even pops up with tons of colorful boxs and lots of odd letters and numbers. So i think the mobo's AMI bios chip is messed up, which means I'll have to return it. But what do you guys think the problem is?
Specs of Problem System:
Processor::AMD Duron 950Mhz.
MOBO:ECS K7S5A
HDD:20GB Western Digital 5400rpm
RAm:256mb PC133
Power Supply: Cheap generic 300w