Alas i think that my pc has been cursed by the gods. I'm not all that tech savy anymore, so i figure i'll see if the combined geekdome of the forums can help me out a bit.
The problem started out probably about 2 days ago when my machine randomly rebooted ( not good ) but that apeared to be the end of it. Then all of a sudden my machine wouldn't boot/post. It'd start up and tell me something along the the lines of AMD XP2000+ processor, and that's about it. No ram count up, or anything else. Figuring that my ram could be the route of the evil, i removed one of my 2 sticks of ram. No luck, i did this again, and again switching the positions and arangments of the ram. At one point it all of a sudden started telling me that i had a AMD XP1250 and "warning it apears to be overclocked!" but at least it'd let me geting to the cmos... after dicking around in the cmos ( i didn't change anything except to tell it to not hold up on any errors at the POST) I did a warm reboot and Gasp it actually started up right. (XP2000 with 256MB ram ect ect)
Unfortunatly that was a fluke of fortune. and since it hasn't started up and persists to tell me that i'm running a XP1250 Athlon.
At this point i'm wondering if bad ram is really the cause, i'm gonna borrow some misc DDR ram from a friend and see if it'll at least boot.. if that's the case then it'll be a good excuse to upgrade anyhow. If not... i dunno. Perhpas a dell heheh.
System Specs.
Asus A7n8x (nvidia 2 chipset)
AMD Xp2000
Crosair ram 256MB 400Mhz DDR
nvidia Ti44000 agp
ect ect ect...
The problem started out probably about 2 days ago when my machine randomly rebooted ( not good ) but that apeared to be the end of it. Then all of a sudden my machine wouldn't boot/post. It'd start up and tell me something along the the lines of AMD XP2000+ processor, and that's about it. No ram count up, or anything else. Figuring that my ram could be the route of the evil, i removed one of my 2 sticks of ram. No luck, i did this again, and again switching the positions and arangments of the ram. At one point it all of a sudden started telling me that i had a AMD XP1250 and "warning it apears to be overclocked!" but at least it'd let me geting to the cmos... after dicking around in the cmos ( i didn't change anything except to tell it to not hold up on any errors at the POST) I did a warm reboot and Gasp it actually started up right. (XP2000 with 256MB ram ect ect)
Unfortunatly that was a fluke of fortune. and since it hasn't started up and persists to tell me that i'm running a XP1250 Athlon.
At this point i'm wondering if bad ram is really the cause, i'm gonna borrow some misc DDR ram from a friend and see if it'll at least boot.. if that's the case then it'll be a good excuse to upgrade anyhow. If not... i dunno. Perhpas a dell heheh.
System Specs.
Asus A7n8x (nvidia 2 chipset)
AMD Xp2000
Crosair ram 256MB 400Mhz DDR
nvidia Ti44000 agp
ect ect ect...
