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adarsh

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    Booting problem and automatic restarts
    « on: January 07, 2010, 11:47:20 PM »
    my pc  takes   3  to 4  attempts to boot
    what could be  the  problem

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    Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
    « Reply #1 on: January 08, 2010, 04:05:54 AM »
    Why don't you provide us with some more information?
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    adarsh

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      Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
      « Reply #2 on: January 08, 2010, 08:27:20 AM »
      All  fans  are  working
      power reaches everywhere
      cd rom drive,mouse,keyboard,..

      replaced  Ram because of this problem
      it's a new ram now


      but still  the problem is there
      it takes  3 to 4 attempts to boot

      and there  are  automatic restarts  as well  when  the comp is booted and working
      sometimes the comp freezes

      sometimes  i get blue screen stop message asking  to try changing video adapter or chk  bios update from vendor

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      Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
      « Reply #3 on: January 08, 2010, 08:35:25 AM »
      Incompatible RAM...
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        Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
        « Reply #4 on: January 08, 2010, 08:58:16 AM »
        Need...more...info...gasp  :P

        Operating system / antivirus & antispyware protection / service packs installed / when did it start happening / did it ever work right / installed any new software?

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          Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
          « Reply #5 on: January 08, 2010, 09:19:00 AM »
          How old is the power supply?


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            Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
            « Reply #6 on: January 09, 2010, 01:56:35 AM »
            well

            when  it  works,it works fine
            apart  from the automatic restarts  in between
            once in an hour or so

            power supply is 4 years old

            it  is  windows xp OS  SP2

            no new  software or hardware installed

            apart from RAM stick which was  to supposed to solve this problem
            the prev ram stick had gone bad according to the hardware technician

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            Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
            « Reply #7 on: January 09, 2010, 02:18:40 PM »
            i give you 90 % that your RAM doesn't want to work... That could be because you have different brand (like kingston and buffalo), ram capacity (512 and 256) or one of them is broken... Sorry I didn't ask - how many RAM cards do you have plugged in ?
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              Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
              « Reply #8 on: January 10, 2010, 06:57:56 AM »
              I  have  just 1  Ram stick

              But  i had similar problem with the old ram  stick which has gone bad
              that  old  ram stick worked fine for 4 years or so
              and i haven't made   any hardware or software changes
              the problem started all of a sudden

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                Re: Booting problem and automatic restarts
                « Reply #9 on: January 10, 2010, 05:27:01 PM »
                I would change out the power supply if you have determined that RAM is not the culprit