Stumped

[UDGags]

Okay, they other day windows froze and when I rebooted it would hang on the windows loading screen so I thought it was windows/hard drive issue. I decided to try and reformat my hard drives. I boot of the windows cd and it would start to load the files and it would get so far then reboot. It would reboot right after loading all the files I believe. So I decided to try and switch hard drives. I took out my two SATA raided and tried a general IDE hard drive and I got the same response. I then decided to check my memory. I have two 512mbs chips. I tried booting with just one of them and it will jsut keep restarting like before. Both chips give same results. I also tried to use single channel an dual channel as options for them. So I believe my memory, hard drives, video are all fine and that it is my motherboard somehow. I can get into BIOS and change settings and it POSTS fine. Is it possible a overheating switch got stuck or fried? My computer specs are below. Any help or ideas would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Specs:
ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe
Athlon 2700+
2-512 corsair XMS PC2700(333mhz)
ATI AIW Radeon 9700 PRO
2-SATA Seagate 80gb 8mb buffer-Striped
I also have a cd-rom, zip drive, 3.5" drive on IDE along with a 80gb drive that is used for data storage. Logitech cordless mouse and keyboard. No Speakers. Think that about covers it.

 

[ChipDeath]

Power supply is dying if you want my opinion. What make/wattage is it?

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Epox 8RDA+ rev1.1 w/ Custom NB HS
XP1700+ @205x11 (~2.26Ghz), 1.575Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro 420/744

 

[ChipDeath]

Also, According to <A HREF="http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/" target="_new">This Extremely cool site</A> You should have a PSU capable of delivering a sustained 354W. Many generic 400W supplies would have trouble with this amount of load.

Credit for the link goes to 4Ryan6, by the way, as I've got it from his sticky post at the top of the 'Other Components' Forum.

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Epox 8RDA+ rev1.1 w/ Custom NB HS
XP1700+ @205x11 (~2.26Ghz), 1.575Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro 420/744

 

[UDGags]

Antec Solution Series SL400 400W Power Supply is the power supply in the computer. It is probably about a year old of in use. I also have a XaserII case which has a lot of fans connected to the power supply which would increase the load some.

 

[UDGags]

I just did that site and came back with 393W in total for everything attached to my computer. Thanks for the link to that site it is nice. I will try a bigger and better supply.

 

[ChipDeath]

I took a couple of guesses on stuff like number of casefans etc - I thought I'd probably be a bit on the low side


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Epox 8RDA+ rev1.1 w/ Custom NB HS
XP1700+ @205x11 (~2.26Ghz), 1.575Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro 420/744

 

[UDGags]

Okay, I went out and bought a Antec 430W TruePower supply last night. I disconnected the zip drive and removed the extra PCI cards and it still does the same thing. I am assuming now that I have checked the hard drives, video, memory, power supply and removed all the extra stuff that it is the motherboard causing the reset. I can get into BIOS and change everything fine so I am thinking it is a hardware failure and not software but any more guesses or ideas to what it could be are still welcome. I plan on contacting ASUS tech today. Thanks!

 

[pat]

Can you give your memory a little bump in voltage...like 2.7v?

My corsair has problem with stock voltage but run fine since one year with voltage set to 2.7

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

 

[UDGags]

I can try that once I get home tonight and see what happens but I am guessing it is something else since it ran fine for a year with the setting it was at.

 

[sparky853]

Have you tried running Memtest86? Sometime bad memory will give weird errors when trying to install an OS.

Download Memtest86 <A HREF="http://www.memtest86.com" target="_new">here</A> and see what happens. I would recommend running it on first one stick and then the other.

Spec:
Intel P4 2.4B
MSI 645E Max-U Mobo
1GB DDR333
R9600XT 128MB
SB Live 5.1
WD 60GB
Maxtor 120GB
LG DVD+-R/RW
WIN2K PRO SP4

 

[UDGags]

I will try and test the memory. Asus had me change a few of the memory settings but nothing worked. I will run memtest tonight and see what happens.

 

[endyen]

You should take a look at the capacitors near your processor. If they are bulging or leaking, there is your problem