Hi,
I have the following home built pc for more than 1 yr without problem and recently it started having problem about 2 months ago, until it became very severe during this time I didn't change or add any hardwares to the configuration:
Configuration:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Motherboard MSI K8N NEO-Platinum (MS-7030)
Memory PC2700 DDR 512 MB
HD HITACHI 180 GB IDE
Power supply 400 Watt
PNY GE FORCE 5500 AGP 8X 128 MB
Windows XP Professional
The computer was fine until 2 months ago when I detect the first symptom and here is what happened:
- pc force to shut down all my application and then close Windows properly. It happens once, then twice a week. Then I notice that my computer turn by itself in the middle of the night etc.
- After 3 - 4 weeks doing that it get worse, it started to give me only few minutes on windows and then force to shut down on me.
- After 6 weeks it won't let me pass booting windows xp and it reboot constantly, and even when I check the bios setting.
- Enough said I thought it was hardware problem. so I swapped new memory module, and problem still persist.
- disconnect all modem, HD connection and problem still persist. reset mobo jumper and it's the same thing.
- finally send the MB back to MSI...and they replace it with a brand new one.
- Got my MB back today and hook everything up....and what in the world the problem is still there...it keeps rebooting and the farthest it let me pass was few second on Bios or it was on for maybe 1 second and then click and the on again and now it doesn't start right away but wait maybe like 2 second then start.
- Ok, I thought it was a faulty PSU, today I went and bought a fortron 400W thought that could solve it ...but problem still there...reboot constantly.
- Now I disconnect everything incl HD, modem, USB, and only leave the Graphic card on and CD rom (swap with my old one still doing the same thing so I know the CD rom is not the problem), the problem still there.
- Frustrated, I went and bought a new PCI DIAMOND Stealth S85 128 MB and the problem still there..?????
- The only thing that I havent' swap is the AMD CPU...now could this be the problem? btw I move the orig 512 MB memory around and reseated the card etc and still the same problem.
- I never run games on this computer...only MS Office for business and I leave it on mostly almost 10 - 15 hr daily. LCD monitor never flicker or anything to indicate problem with videocard. Everytime it reboot never gives any error message, most of the times it reboot almost instantly so you never see any pic on the monitor but only see the light goes from orange to green then back to orange on the monitor, and all the fan start spinning and then off and then back on again.
The only thing I could think off is that MSI screwed up and send me a faulty replacement motherboard or that my CPU is toasted.....off course I can probably borrow an AMD Athlon CPU to test.... or maybe the Fortron 400 Watt OEM I bought today was defective, but can someone please help me? Thank you for all your help.
Mike Suhendro
I have the following home built pc for more than 1 yr without problem and recently it started having problem about 2 months ago, until it became very severe during this time I didn't change or add any hardwares to the configuration:
Configuration:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Motherboard MSI K8N NEO-Platinum (MS-7030)
Memory PC2700 DDR 512 MB
HD HITACHI 180 GB IDE
Power supply 400 Watt
PNY GE FORCE 5500 AGP 8X 128 MB
Windows XP Professional
The computer was fine until 2 months ago when I detect the first symptom and here is what happened:
- pc force to shut down all my application and then close Windows properly. It happens once, then twice a week. Then I notice that my computer turn by itself in the middle of the night etc.
- After 3 - 4 weeks doing that it get worse, it started to give me only few minutes on windows and then force to shut down on me.
- After 6 weeks it won't let me pass booting windows xp and it reboot constantly, and even when I check the bios setting.
- Enough said I thought it was hardware problem. so I swapped new memory module, and problem still persist.
- disconnect all modem, HD connection and problem still persist. reset mobo jumper and it's the same thing.
- finally send the MB back to MSI...and they replace it with a brand new one.
- Got my MB back today and hook everything up....and what in the world the problem is still there...it keeps rebooting and the farthest it let me pass was few second on Bios or it was on for maybe 1 second and then click and the on again and now it doesn't start right away but wait maybe like 2 second then start.
- Ok, I thought it was a faulty PSU, today I went and bought a fortron 400W thought that could solve it ...but problem still there...reboot constantly.
- Now I disconnect everything incl HD, modem, USB, and only leave the Graphic card on and CD rom (swap with my old one still doing the same thing so I know the CD rom is not the problem), the problem still there.
- Frustrated, I went and bought a new PCI DIAMOND Stealth S85 128 MB and the problem still there..?????
- The only thing that I havent' swap is the AMD CPU...now could this be the problem? btw I move the orig 512 MB memory around and reseated the card etc and still the same problem.
- I never run games on this computer...only MS Office for business and I leave it on mostly almost 10 - 15 hr daily. LCD monitor never flicker or anything to indicate problem with videocard. Everytime it reboot never gives any error message, most of the times it reboot almost instantly so you never see any pic on the monitor but only see the light goes from orange to green then back to orange on the monitor, and all the fan start spinning and then off and then back on again.
The only thing I could think off is that MSI screwed up and send me a faulty replacement motherboard or that my CPU is toasted.....off course I can probably borrow an AMD Athlon CPU to test.... or maybe the Fortron 400 Watt OEM I bought today was defective, but can someone please help me? Thank you for all your help.
Mike Suhendro
