I got my new mobo today. I rebuilt my PC and started up, it starts up a bit different because of the core Cell thing since its an MSI KT6V. I changed the BIOS and restarted. When i went downstairs to get WinXP and came back up, i turned it on and ... exact same problem as before. It recovered then went back into broken mode. The fans slowed down and theres a very quiet clicking noise coming from somewhere. I am so pissed off at this. I think i'm gonna have a heart attack. Now, I'm downstairs on the duron PC.
I just had a thought. When it worked for a few minutes before i went away it booted windows but the windows folder was corrupt. If the cpu was damaged it wouldn't boot up at all so that leaves only the PSU I think. Do you think that could be causing it?
Well, you did just switch motherboards that have two different chipsets. That could easily have something to do with it.
try turning off your power supply, unplugging it and letting it sit for about a day or two, then plug it in, hit the power button on the power supply, then turn your pc on with fingers crossed!
Thats porbably the reason why it booted up the first time but after a few minutes it died again. Before i turned it on the PSU has been sat idle for a few months. oi changed my GFX card with my really old one and still it was dead so i'm thinking more and more that the PSU is faulty. The cpu is ok, the hard drive is ok, the gfx card is ok and the ram is ok. BTW when i got my motherboard back, the K7N2 was discontinued so i got a KT6V instead. I doubt the chipsets are causing this is as its the same problem had before.
