madwolf on 8/12/2008 at 18:16
Recently my comp crashed a couple of times when playing Oblivion or Timeshift. The No Signal Imput message came on and the comp would restart.
Then yesterday the screen froze, though the sound kept going. I couldn't ctrl alt out of it so had to turn it off at the socket.
Now my comp won't start properly. It gets as far as the loading screen, I choose safe mode or whatever, it continues to load and then there is a brief glimpse of BSOD, too quick to read the message and the No Signal Imput message returns. Then the whole thing reboots. It goes through the same process each time.
Tried changing moniters, no difference, can't change video cards as the one I have for my other rig doesn't fit. The video card looks alright. And all the fans are working. So any ideas? Motherboard? Video card?
specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice CPU
• AMD approved cooler
• Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 PCI-Express Motherboard
• 1GB Value (2x512MB) DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Kit
• 160GB Western Digital Serial ATA-2 8mb Cache Hard Drive
• BFG 3DFuzion NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card
• NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
• Onboard 6 Channel Audio
• Antec NSK4400-UK Silent Midi Tower Case
• Antec 380W Silent ATX Power Supply
Thanks in advance.
bikerdude on 8/12/2008 at 19:28
Evening
Boot into safe mode(if it lets you) and uninstall the video driver/s then boot back into normal mode and see if it still BSOD's
Also try removing/swapping the memory with the other pc to see if its the memory.
but if the above dosent work then Im afraid we are going to need another video card to diagnose if its your 7600.
biker
madwolf on 8/12/2008 at 20:20
Unfortunately Biker I can't get into safe or any other mode. Had a look at the memory cards; the're incompatable. This is a pretty old comp, but reliable.
bikerdude on 8/12/2008 at 20:41
Quote Posted by madwolf
Unfortunately Biker I can't get into safe or any other mode. Had a look at the memory cards; the're incompatable. This is a pretty old comp, but reliable.
where are you located..? are not able to pick up a cheap PCI card (like an old matrax etc0 to test if its the gfx card..?
Also regarding the memory, how many sticks do you have in there..? take one out and then swap etc to see if one of the sticks are faulty.
biker
madwolf on 9/12/2008 at 17:36
Actually this is starting to get seriously worrying now. Turned it on today and it just made long repetitive beeps, and nothing else happened.
There's a very good independant {for which read expensive} comp repair shop nearby. I'm going to have to take it there.
steo on 9/12/2008 at 18:07
Look in the motherboard manual for what the beep codes mean. They can be hard to decipher but it should help diagnose the problem.
bikerdude on 9/12/2008 at 18:31
Quote Posted by steo
beep codes mean.
or google it
madwolf on 10/12/2008 at 08:03
Fixed! :D
The beeping noise was caused by a memory card problem presumably due to me swopping them around. A good clean sorted that out.
Secondly I used my Windows CD to boot up, which I should have thought of to begin with. Then ran CHKDSK /R which found and fixed the problems.
Huzzah!
bikerdude on 10/12/2008 at 08:46
well done that man
:cheeky:
