staddydaddy
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So this morning around 9am CST, I go to turn on my computer to start working on stuff. Well instead of hearing the short little POST tone, Beep!, I heard Beeeeeeeeeeeep. It wouldn't stop the long POST beep untill I held down my power button for 10 seconds (to manually power the system down). I didn't have my monitor on at the time so I don't know what, if any, information was on the screen. I am reluctant to turn the computer on again, for fear that I am going to do further damage. The computer is a little more than a half a year old (built for Sept. 30th).
Some usefull information that might be helpful in a diagnosis. If there is any other information that you think might prove usefull in determining what's wrong then by all means ask:
You can see my computer spec's in my sig to get an idea of what the system is. I was running XP Pro with all of the latest drivers.
Sometimes when I would start up the computer, before windows would load, I would get a message. It was something about Serial Presence Detect and that my Ram would be bupped down to 333mhz (instead of the normal 400mhz).
Also everynow and then, I would boot the computer and when it got to windows, there would be these wierd bars going down in collums. If I restarted the computer 90% of the time the bars would go away and everything would function normally.
I also defrag the harddrive that windows is on, about 3 times a day. I'm not sure if this could cause excess wear on the drive, but I thought I should mension it incase y'all know something I don't.
Everything in the computer was new, except for: the soundcard (was a friends), the two hard drives, the power supply, floppy and cd rom drives (all from the computer I used to use). The PSU is a 330W from my old computer and while I was building the new one (which is giving me the long POST tone) I was concerned that the PSU was not powerful enough.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I could not have built this computer with out the generosity and knowledge that you guys gave me on this board while I was building it. I really don't have that much knowledge of building computer hardware, so you guys are my one hope. Thanks again.
Some usefull information that might be helpful in a diagnosis. If there is any other information that you think might prove usefull in determining what's wrong then by all means ask:
You can see my computer spec's in my sig to get an idea of what the system is. I was running XP Pro with all of the latest drivers.
Sometimes when I would start up the computer, before windows would load, I would get a message. It was something about Serial Presence Detect and that my Ram would be bupped down to 333mhz (instead of the normal 400mhz).
Also everynow and then, I would boot the computer and when it got to windows, there would be these wierd bars going down in collums. If I restarted the computer 90% of the time the bars would go away and everything would function normally.
I also defrag the harddrive that windows is on, about 3 times a day. I'm not sure if this could cause excess wear on the drive, but I thought I should mension it incase y'all know something I don't.
Everything in the computer was new, except for: the soundcard (was a friends), the two hard drives, the power supply, floppy and cd rom drives (all from the computer I used to use). The PSU is a 330W from my old computer and while I was building the new one (which is giving me the long POST tone) I was concerned that the PSU was not powerful enough.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. I could not have built this computer with out the generosity and knowledge that you guys gave me on this board while I was building it. I really don't have that much knowledge of building computer hardware, so you guys are my one hope. Thanks again.
