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AirBorne
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 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: My PT800CE-A is acting up.... help wanted urgently |
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I am facing a problem with my ESC PT800CE-A system. I have a pentium 4 3.2GHz on it with 1GB of Ram. Lately it started to act wierd. I started experiencing frequent resrat problems. The computer would boot up good and stay on for a couple of minutes and then reboot on its own. The time that it stays on becomes less and less as the number of reboots increase. It is to the extent that after several reboots, the compture would boot only to show the bios/peripheral screen and then reboot again. It would not even get to load the operating System. This problem got cured on its own about 20 days ago. But now, just yesterday it showed up again and this time the computer would shut down and not even reboot. After the shut down, if you try to bring it back up it would not. You have to wait a couple minutes to bring it back up. I am not sure what is going on.This is my new PC and its acting up worst than my old faithful PIII 533 MHz which is 5 years old and has never crashed thus far. Initially I thought it was power supply problem but after doing a bit of search on google, I think I should jump to the conclusion of calling the power supply bad.
Here are the specs:
Motherboard: PT800CE-A
Bios: 1.1e (The one that allows more than 120GB hard drive support)
Processor: P4 3.2 GHz
Ram: 1GB
Video Card: I think its ATi 9500 with 256MB on board
PCI NIC: AT&T 108MB wireless card.
Please let me know what you guys think. Also, if this involves a reset of bios, can you point me to the manual as I dont have the paper copy of the manual anymore.
I would highly appreciate your help.
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Mick Sitton
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject: Re: My PT800CE-A is acting up.... help wanted urgently |
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Sounds like an overheating problem to me, are you sure the heatsink fan
hasn't died/got stuck ?
"AirBorne" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I am facing a problem with my ESC PT800CE-A system. I have a pentium 4
3.2GHz on it with 1GB of Ram. Lately it started to act wierd. I
started experiencing frequent resrat problems. The computer would
boot up good and stay on for a couple of minutes and then reboot on
its own. The time that it stays on becomes less and less as the
number of reboots increase. It is to the extent that after several
reboots, the compture would boot only to show the bios/peripheral
screen and then reboot again. It would not even get to load the
operating System. This problem got cured on its own about 20 days
ago. But now, just yesterday it showed up again and this time the
computer would shut down and not even reboot. After the shut down, if
you try to bring it back up it would not. You have to wait a couple
minutes to bring it back up. I am not sure what is going on.This is
my new PC and its acting up worst than my old faithful PIII 533 MHz
which is 5 years old and has never crashed thus far. Initially I
thought it was power supply problem but after doing a bit of search
on google, I think I should jump to the conclusion of calling the
power supply bad.
Here are the specs:
Motherboard: PT800CE-A
Bios: 1.1e (The one that allows more than 120GB hard drive support)
Processor: P4 3.2 GHz
Ram: 1GB
Video Card: I think its ATi 9500 with 256MB on board
Please let me know what you guys think. Also, if this involves a reset
of bios, can you point me to the manual as I dont have the paper copy
of the manual anymore.
I would highly appreciate your help.
Thanks.
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AirBorne
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Joined: 08 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: My PT800CE-A is acting up.... help wanted urgently |
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| Mick Sitton wrote: | Sounds like an overheating problem to me, are you sure the heatsink fan
hasn't died/got stuck ?
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Yeah the fan is running full blast and the CPU is running at 45 to 50F. |
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robm
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| Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: My PT800CE-A is acting up.... help wanted urgently |
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"AirBorne" <no@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I am facing a problem with my ESC PT800CE-A system. I have a pentium 4
3.2GHz on it with 1GB of Ram. Lately it started to act wierd. I
started experiencing frequent resrat problems. The computer would
boot up good and stay on for a couple of minutes and then reboot on
its own. The time that it stays on becomes less and less as the
number of reboots increase. It is to the extent that after several
reboots, the compture would boot only to show the bios/peripheral
screen and then reboot again. It would not even get to load the
operating System. This problem got cured on its own about 20 days
ago. But now, just yesterday it showed up again and this time the
computer would shut down and not even reboot. After the shut down, if
you try to bring it back up it would not. You have to wait a couple
minutes to bring it back up. I am not sure what is going on.This is
my new PC and its acting up worst than my old faithful PIII 533 MHz
which is 5 years old and has never crashed thus far. Initially I
thought it was power supply problem but after doing a bit of search
on google, I think I should jump to the conclusion of calling the
power supply bad.
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bad CAPS on mobo ??
sounds like a problem ihad with k7s5a, it was bad caps , i do not think i've
ever heard of the PT800 with bad caps but the problem sounds similar. Not
much effort to check, look for bulging tops or leaking goo from the BIG caps
near the CPU
HTH |
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