Redster
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- Feb 23, 2006
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- Mac Red Longhair
k,, this is a weird one that I have never seen before. On my wifes pc, 3.4ghz AMD, 64 bit Windows XP, 3gb ram, lots of hard drive. She was playing Farm Town on facebook like she always does and pc locked up. We restarted and after a couple mins, everything locks up again. I went in and turned off a lot of programs from auto start, rebooted and again it was fine. I did a full av scan, then rebooted and system would not come up, wont even start post. Pulled power cord, let it sit for a bit,, still nothing. I then pulled cmos battery for 15mins, powered it up and post started. I went into bios setup, changed the date, saved and it wouldnt start backup. I pulled battery again, then restarted and let system come up. I saw a chksum error, so figured, the dual bios on her Gigabyte K8NS Pro motherboard was hosed. after telling it to continue,, system boots up to windows fine, exited a couple programs, then fired up the @bios program that Gigabyte has to flash the bios,, it completed successfully but again would not reboot or even start post. Pulled battery one more time then let it boot up. After it came up, she played on it all night with no problems. The antivirus though is disabled now because the bios clock is off and there is still a checksum error that has to be acknowledged when I can get it to go through post. I am thinking something is going out on it but not quite sure. I swapped memory chips around, swapped out the video card, even disconnected hard drive, still wont start post on a reboot. Could a flaky powersupply cause issues like this ? Pc is couple years old but we have never had any issues with it. Not sure what to replace first. Any ideas ?
I should also note that I am not getting any error beeps at all,, system just sits there.
