computer wouldnt post?

[Azzkiller]

I booted up this morning after having a few problems last night with my computer. Last night it was having some problems with all my programs running freezing up. I then restarted it, and on the XP splash screen, it changed wierd colors. I then just decided that It may be overheated and kept it off for the night. When I woke up this morning I started it up, and I couldhear my drives initializing and the hdd and floppy lights were lit nonstop. I would get a single beep. (I usually get two) The monitor wouldnt turn on though.

I then disconnected all my drives. It POSTED! problem possibly solved. I plugged my HDD back in and it still posted. So I am thinking its either my CDRW or DVDROM. :( I still need to power down and hook the drives back up and see if it still boots!

Heres my system:

Enermax 431W PS
Soyo Dragon (original) motherboard
Tbird 1.33ghz (running at 1ghz right now for cooling purposes)
256meg of corsair 2100 DDR SDRAM
Geforce2 PRO
IBM 60 gig deskstar 7200rpm
Wintv, which doesnt work!
Dvd rom drive, forgot the brand
CDRW, Liteon 16x, also, the burnproof on this doesnt work!!!

Any ideas?

Also, on my brothers computer, when you turn on the computer after being off for awhile it will sit in the post process for about 20 seconds sometimes accessing the cdrom drives, its like it wont "catch" or something. Hes already on his SECOND motherboard and processor, because his old board and proc, a 750mhz duron and a MSI k7t turbo motherboard. It just quit one day after freezing up in q3.

Thanks.

[azhari]

First thing you should do is to make sure your DDR stick is well seated. These suckers can look like they are seated, but not be. It took me about an hour of pushing AND wiggling to get them seated right. I used to get the long beep because of the memory.

Second, monitor your temps. I have a digidoc to do this for me, but you can pickup a cheap unit from Radio Shack or use MBM5 to do this. High temps can really damage components and lead to crashes. Worst thing is that it can corrupt your data.

[Azzkiller]

I think you misunderstood. It wasnt a long beep, just a normal post beep, not two like usual. Also, my computer has been up and running for several months now, so thats not the problem.

As for the temperatures, you may be right about them. I underclocked my processor because I was worried. I need a better cooler for my processor, most likely, but it would have to have a slow fan, as I cant stand the noise of the deltas.

[juliendogg]

what were your temps?

[Azzkiller]

less than 50 C