Recently my computer started shutting down on its on or crashing when left on screen saver. Then a few days later my graphics card died...and then I also noticed that the white plastic on one of the pins of my 20 pin motherboard power connector was black and completely burned through the plastic to the metal. (Please see attached pictures) My old power supply died out 3 months ago and I got a new 400W one. I am running a p 4 2.4 Ghz system on Ibit IS7 motherboard 1.5 gb memory, DVDR/W and a CDR/W, 120 gb PATA and 160 gb SATA. 32 mb GeForce 2 graphics card with a 400 W Power supply. Can anyone else help me as to what could have caused this. Do I need a new motherboard and power supply now? Lastly did my graphics card also burnout because of the powersupply? If anyone can help me out I'll greatly appreciate. Thank You.
You need to replace both, and get yourself a nice PSU... "Hyper TypeR"s are expensive, but lovely (i can barley hear it, and my parents cant hear it so my pc runs 24/7 ) You need to replace both because the burnout was caused by ether the motherboard or PSU, so ether one could possible damage the replacement (new PSU damages old motherboard etc). Also thats taken a fair bit of power to heat up that much, i wouldn't take any chances!
Yeah that sounds good. I think am just going to get a basic socket 478 board, just need to go budget for now. I guess what is more important is what can be done in the future to prevent something like this happening again? What would have caused only 1 pin to burn through the plastic protection like that? Is there any program i can use to keep track of my computer voltages and temp?
Alrite so now I replaced my motherboard and powersupply and the computer seems to boot fine. I am not sure if I can boot from my old hard drive. It crashes and resets the computer everytime the windows logo comes up. I can't even get into safe mode. After replacing the motherboard which has it own videocard/audio drivers/lan drivers do I need to start with a fresh copy of windows or is there any way I can repair the old one. Thank you. I really appreciate your help.
Did you buy the same motherboard or a different one? If you choose a new motherboard the chances are you will need to reinstall Windows. Windows won't boot because it expects a certain 'chipset' to be there. It can't talk to your new motherboard chipset because it is still trying to use the old motherboard chipset drivers. The only way you can save your data is to install Windows on a new hard drive and buddy up the old hard drive in the same machine. Alternatively you could install the old hard drive into a different computer and transfer the data across.
hmmm...Alrite I installed a fresh copy of Windows 2000 sp4 + Rev 1 and 2 in my 160 gb sata drive. Everything was going well. My computer was on for 1 hr+ . Then all I did was shutdown connect a chasis fan and my other IDE 120 gb hd as backup. This was my previous OS HD, but now back up. All I did after that was intall AVG and was in the middle of installing IE-6 that my computer did the same thing it was doing before. It restarted randomly without warning. I thought it was a one time thing and after the restart I kept on installing software and then it restarted spontaneouuly again in 10 min and then again in about 10 min and then last two time it restarted within 1 minute of windows loading up. I removed the chasis fan and the second hd that I added after the computer had been well for 1hr plus and still same results it restarts within 1 min of windows 2000 loading up. Anyone know what could be causing this? I replaced the mobo and powersupply already. The videocard is also new as I am using the itegrated one from the mobo. I Though the CPU was overheating but my CPU temp was about 30 each time that I checked? What could be causing my system to restart again and again. Is it a software/virus or hardware? Any help will be very much appreciated. Thank you very much. Everyone has been a great support so far. Thanks.
Check the Windows Event Manager: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Event Manager Look under the System and Application logs for errors. Can you see anything relevant? The problem you have seems to be more hardware then software related. But still I'd like to make sure Windows isn't misbehaving (as it always does )
