Re: Setup Restarts Automatically

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_NoSpam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:06:26 -0600

You did F6 and load your ATA133 driver didn't you? (at setup is inspecting
your system) 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"ServerGuy" wrote:
| This has been an ongoing problem for about 3 months now
| and i am out of ideas other that it may be the power
| supply in my computer. Here are the specs:
| 420 Watt TurboLink Powersupply
| 3.0 GHZ 800 FSB Pentium 4 Processor
| ATI Radeon 9200 128 MB AGP 8x Graphics Card
| Tv Tuner Card (Forget Name of Manuf.)
| Philips 5.1 Surround Sound Card
| SIIG IDE Expansion Card 2 Slots ATA133
| 4 Neon Fans 4 Pin Power Supply
| 1 Cold Cathode W/ 4 Pin Power Supply
| 3 120 Gig Hard Drives
| 1 CD-RW/DVD-R Drive
| 2 CD-RW Drives
| 1 Zip100 Drive
| 2 Floppy Drives
|
| Here Is The Configuration:
|
| Master 120 GIG And Slave 120 GIG connected to main IDE
| slot in Motherboard
| CD-RW and Secondary CD-RW Drive Connected to Secondary IDE
| Slot on Motherboard
| 3rd 120 gig HDD connected to slot 1 on IDE Expansion Card
| CD-RW/DVD-R Connected to Slot 2 on IDE Expansion Card
|
| The Problem:
| 3 Months ago i was having some problems with windows, it
| would restart unexpectedly when i was just sitting there
| not touching the computer. So i look to see what it could
| be. I find nothing out of the ordinary so i suspect i may
| have a virus. I scan with 3 seperate virus scanners and
| none of them find a single thing. I scan with adaware and
| spybot search and destroy. They find nothing. I scan the
| registry with RegCleaner and System Mechanic. THey find
| nothing out of the ordinary. I do a scan disk and it finds
| nothing. At this point i still suspect it is a very bad
| virus. So i try to save all my things to my secondary 120
| gig to format the hard drive. I use my universal boot disk
| and delete the partition on the main 120 gig then format
| it using FAT file system. THen using the XP setup disk i
| format it again using NTFS and start installing XP. Now i
| am thinking i fixed it but then as it gets done copying
| the setup files and booting up into the visual setup area,
| before i get to any screen to do anything it restarts. I
| try the setup many more times and format it many more
| times. I get the same thing every time. By this time i
| have formatted my 120 gig probably a total of 30 times.
| When it happens for the 31st time i figure i have another
| bad 120 gig. So i use the 3rd 120 gig and format it using
| the xp setup disk. it then copys the setup files and does
| the excat same thing. By the time i get done trying the
| 3rd 120 gig hdd i have probably formatted it 12 times. I
| then suspect that one of the cards or cdrom is bad. So i
| take everything out of the computer leaving only 1 floppy
| drive the graphics card (since the motherboard doesnt have
| a built in graphics card) a single cdrom and my 1st 120
| gig hdd. I try setup again and it does the same thing.
| I try this probably another 3-5 times and try another hard
| drive and another cdrom and another floppy drive.  I put
| the setup cd in and try it once more. It does what it has
| always done. By now i am thinking it is the mother board.
| so i go buy a new one. the new one is infact better than
| the old one. I put the new one in and put everything back
| in the way  it was before all this crap happened. leaving
| the 2nd 120 gig unhooked so i dont accidentally format it
| loosing everything i have. i put the xp cd in and lo and
| behold it does the excat same thing. Now im not only
| confused but angered. I think a while and come to the
| conclusion that it is the CD it must be bad. So i take the
| xp cd out nad pull out my trusty windows 2000 pro cd i put
| it in the master cdrom and boot it up. it gets to the
| visual setup screen but when ever it gets to one of 2
| points it will retart for no reason. the first point is
| when it sets up the network devices, and the second point
| which is past the first one which it will occasionally
| reach is when it installs the start menu items. about 30
| seconds from being done. Then once it restarts now it will
| stay on the very first screen when it detects the devices
| on the mother board. (the motherboard can support
| everything i put on it including the dual floppy drives, i
| have looked every peice of it up in the windows and mother
| board manufacturers compatibility lists.) Now i do no know
| what to do. It may be the power supply cannot support
| everything but it even did it when the minnimal items were
| hooked to it. the graphics card is compatible with
| everything because i only started having this problem
| probably after about 7 months of having XP installed on
| the computer. I do not have any clue now as what could be
| the problem and am now going to try and install Red Hat
| 9.0 to see if it has the same problems. if it goes fine
| the windows is going to get one of those nasty letters. if
| not then your support sucks any way and help me.
|
| ServerGuy

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