Re: I need advice/help

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New motherboard. Changed the RAM.

The common element here is your power supply, which you did not say you
changed. They do go bad. It also may be under powered do to various upgrades
you performed over the years.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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"Chris" <Chris.Petacciato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I've asked just about everyone I know about this and I've also scoured
the Web trying to find an answer, but I haven't been able to find
anything. I'm hoping someone on here will see this and hopefully help
me out.

Here's my problem:
I recently upgraded my motherboard/processor from an Intel 1.6 to an
AMD 64 3000+, I have 1GB of Crucial RAM, BFG 5500 OC 256MB vid card,
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card, 120GB (master) WD hard drive, 160GB
WD (slave) hard drive, Plextor 712A DVD burner, & Lite-On 52x CD burner
all running on a GigaByte GA-K8NSC-939 F8 AWARD BIOS w/XP SP2 Pro.
This problem I'm about to describe also happened when I had the Intel
board.

The problem is out of nowhere and totally randomly, my computer
"clicks" like I just turned the power off and freezes up only to
restart a few seconds later and does one of two things: 1) hangs at
Verifying DMI Pool Data or 2) asks for a system disk because somehow my
hard drives got switched in the BIOS and my slave is now set as the
primary drive. I have no idea how that happens!

Now, I've updated all of my drivers, the BIOS included. I just updated
it last night as a matter of fact and when I woke up this morning (I
leave the PC on) I had the DMI error screen again.....

I checked the event viewer and nothing corresponds with the time or
date that it happened. The RAM is brand new, I've done numerous
diagnostic checks on the HDs and they always come out OK, everything
else is updated hardware-wise...I dont' know what else it could be....

So if anyone out there can help me to possibly figure this out, please
post....

Thanks,
Chris



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