self-rebooting POS [Archive] - ForumsHQ

[syntax53]

Originally posted by iNViSiGOD

This happened out of the blue tho. Was fine till yesterday, we think his vid card might have gone kaboom.

i was referring him saying that he took it all apart and put it back together and it wont turn on. the floppy drive power cable aligned wrong will do that.

[iNViSiGOD]

Ah ok, my bad. Sorry.

[Blunt]

yeah that blaster worm is still floating around tho so he could of picked it up and not noticed it till he rebooted then he started having these probs

[Blunt]

if the vid card went boom you would have no picture period it wouldn't just boot then reboot

[Dark]

could also be dying memory..





If you cant figure out wtf is wrong, then i suggest you take everything out but the essential stuff (memory, keyboard, video etc). Then slowly add one thing in till you hopefully get the error

[dxpac666]

Well we just spent the past 5 hours replacing everything with a WORKING one from another pc. Video card, cpu, power supply, etc. Nothing worked. Only thing we didn't swap was the motherboard, so we're guessing it's fried. As I type this, I'm looking across the room at my mom's laptop, and it just rebooted itself. :) Oh well, that's her problem, not mine.

[Speed]

It's always WG sysops. I'm serious. Nobody else has these problems.

[Platinum]

Originally posted by dxpac666

Well we just spent the past 5 hours replacing everything with a WORKING one from another pc. Video card, cpu, power supply, etc. Nothing worked. Only thing we didn't swap was the motherboard, so we're guessing it's fried. As I type this, I'm looking across the room at my mom's laptop, and it just rebooted itself. :) Oh well, that's her problem, not mine.



You know theres like 2 viruses going around that randomly reboot your pc, right?

[iNViSiGOD]

Yea but they dont fry motherboards. But he was using a Gigabyte board so i wouldnt be surprised if its dead.

[Dark]

Wait a minute... What OS are we talking about because those symptoms are exactly what the worm causes