Hey, (again)
Sorry about this guysm but i've just got back to university after visint ghome, and I have another problem...
My Brother's PC has been having problems pretty much since the new parts went in:
Asus A7V8X-X
AMD Sempron 3000+
Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro Atlantis
256Mb DDR3200 RAM
As soon as it was turned on, the problems began, firstly, the system began to restart randomly even before Windows XP Installation had been finished. (Therefore Not Software Conflict) Discovering this, I set out to discover the problematic hardware by replacing it with fully working versions from my own PC.
Luckily enough, the first thing I changed solved the problem, i replaced the 256Mb RAM with the 512Mb of my own. Sending the RAM back to the manufacturers for testing it came back clean, but my stick of RAM seemed to be suffering from the same problem, particularly a BCCode: 1000008e.
As a result, i put the old (256) RAM back into the machine to discover that it still didnt work,and at my wits end I took into PC World.
They came back to me 2 weeks later telling me that the various pieces of hardware are non-compatible, inparticular the 256Mb of RAM. They replaced it with a lower speed stick and the system stability was greatly increased.
However, The system was overheating slightly, so I have purchased a new Jet 7+ CPU fan, to cool it below the required level.
This I have fitted today and here is the problem that lies with me now. Instead of randomly resetting when under memory stress, the system instead restarts when it is under seemingly low levels of memory stress ususally in the normal windows environment running a few instances of IE and MSN messenger. I have reason to believe that the power supply may not be holding up as no error message of any kind is being displayed and the temperature is significantly low.
Therefore, I will be reaplcing his power supply with my own for a test when i return home for Christmas, but I was wondering if anybody knows of any alternative causes that may occur.
My Thanks
Rich Allan
Sorry about this guysm but i've just got back to university after visint ghome, and I have another problem...
My Brother's PC has been having problems pretty much since the new parts went in:
Asus A7V8X-X
AMD Sempron 3000+
Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro Atlantis
256Mb DDR3200 RAM
As soon as it was turned on, the problems began, firstly, the system began to restart randomly even before Windows XP Installation had been finished. (Therefore Not Software Conflict) Discovering this, I set out to discover the problematic hardware by replacing it with fully working versions from my own PC.
Luckily enough, the first thing I changed solved the problem, i replaced the 256Mb RAM with the 512Mb of my own. Sending the RAM back to the manufacturers for testing it came back clean, but my stick of RAM seemed to be suffering from the same problem, particularly a BCCode: 1000008e.
As a result, i put the old (256) RAM back into the machine to discover that it still didnt work,and at my wits end I took into PC World.
They came back to me 2 weeks later telling me that the various pieces of hardware are non-compatible, inparticular the 256Mb of RAM. They replaced it with a lower speed stick and the system stability was greatly increased.
However, The system was overheating slightly, so I have purchased a new Jet 7+ CPU fan, to cool it below the required level.
This I have fitted today and here is the problem that lies with me now. Instead of randomly resetting when under memory stress, the system instead restarts when it is under seemingly low levels of memory stress ususally in the normal windows environment running a few instances of IE and MSN messenger. I have reason to believe that the power supply may not be holding up as no error message of any kind is being displayed and the temperature is significantly low.
Therefore, I will be reaplcing his power supply with my own for a test when i return home for Christmas, but I was wondering if anybody knows of any alternative causes that may occur.
My Thanks
Rich Allan
