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got a new graphics card about a month ago, everything was fine up until the las time i restarted my computer. now, my fans spin, but before they can get up to full speed, the entire thing shuts down...

bear with me, im no artist, just did this up in Visio

orange: graphics card
blue: motherboard
circle: heat sink/fan
green: ram
light gray: HDD
dark gray: DVD drive
black: PSU

we had a slow day at work, so i started brainstorming. basically i want to have a two-layer box case made out of plexiglass or lexan. the bottom level would hold the drives and PSU, while the top...

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i love my google G1

http://riaaradar.com/search.asp this may help

well, i bought a new cable today, so i'll try that tonight and see how it goes.

well, its not a sudden thing, more like a recurring problem over the past year that gets progressively worse, and this whole time we thought it was the power supply.

Update:

The PC ran fine with the new power supply up until yesterday. I was in the middle of transferring files to my secondary drive from my external when my roommate tripped the breaker and we...

i havent touched the memory voltage. mobo is at factory settings.

picked up a corsair TX750W for $109 today, everything is going smooth so far. SIW power/temp recordings:...

ran memtest (each stick individually) and they all checked out



its a 500w Ultra X-Connect. ive had it for about 2 years.

voltage calculator says i need about 300w, so i should be good.

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its for my roommates. he can barely operate his macbook, they would be lost with anything linux-based.

im going to try what HackSore suggested and see if its the graphics card.

well, memtest came back fine. a friend of mine mentioned using a program to write all zeros onto the HDD, then reinstalling XP?

good idea. guess i'll run memtest86 after i get out of class today.

well, i just burned a new cd, and its stuck on the black screen again after the first reboot, so im starting to think its a hdd problem.

its IDE. and it may be the install disk. previous disk i was using used to BSOD after loading drivers. i'll try that and see if a new disk works *hunts hard drive for the .ISO file*

alright, i got a free pc from work (sans-HDD, they made me destroy all those in my free time). i put my 160gb hitachi drive that i used to have in my desktop in it, along with a spare ati 9200, since...

memtest won't run on x64 for some reason, and i dont have another machine to test the ram on.

well, its been running fine on 3gb of ram (tested my spare stick too) until today. BSOD'd 3 times already today.

well, ive been running it almost 24h with only 2gb of RAM, and that seems to have solved the problem. im gonna swap the ram around later to see if its the RAM or the slots.

no, but im hoping to get one pretty soon.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v111/DFSniper/pc1.jpg

hmm, the -12v and -5v seem to be running a bit low

yeah, that was another conclusion my friend and I came to. i've been planning on replacing that anyway because the cable management sucks.

is there a program or something i can run that shows me...

for the past 6 months or so, my hard drives would crash on me. first, i got NTLDR errors, then i got pop-up messages on bootup (in XP) saying that "[file] could not be saved to [OS drive]". i would...

from what i've been told, the only numbers that work with any CD are XP Professional. we had a case at school that we reformatted, but didnt have the key. so we used the key that was on the case, and...