I was in the BIOS tightning up my ram latencies, but I guess I had overdone it a little when the pc wouldnt load windows. I just got the black screen. So I figured OK, I'll just loosen them back up and restart.
Well when I restart, my memory test at the POST does something really wierd. It goes past 512mb, and keeps on rolling to 5 gb, then, it starts over again and again until I escape the memory test.
Then once again I get the black screen and no windows. It wouldn't even run disk check. So I figured OK just a bad crash, and I pulled the ol XP home outta the jewel case and boot to it for a complete reinstall.
The SETUP goes as far as the screen where it says WINDOWS IS STARTING or whatever, then, it just stops loading. So I figure OK, bad disk, and I pull out the grandfather copy out of my drawer and plop it in to my cdrom and try again. Then once again, a freeze at the startup.
So then I figure OK, it looks like I fried my ram considering the wierd memory test and the systems inabiltity to load the setup. I then grab another stick of RAM and try it in all three slots and no help.
I also tried another hard drive and psu..
So now I'm thinking it might be the memory controller or the cpu causing the problem. But I really have no idea. !HELP!
BTW: THIS DID NOT HAPPEN TO THE SYSTEM IN MY SIG.
Here is the system info:
AMD 2400 XP
SOYO SYkt 400 ULTRA
512 kingston value
60 gb WD IDE
failsafe defaults
Well when I restart, my memory test at the POST does something really wierd. It goes past 512mb, and keeps on rolling to 5 gb, then, it starts over again and again until I escape the memory test.
Then once again I get the black screen and no windows. It wouldn't even run disk check. So I figured OK just a bad crash, and I pulled the ol XP home outta the jewel case and boot to it for a complete reinstall.
The SETUP goes as far as the screen where it says WINDOWS IS STARTING or whatever, then, it just stops loading. So I figure OK, bad disk, and I pull out the grandfather copy out of my drawer and plop it in to my cdrom and try again. Then once again, a freeze at the startup.
So then I figure OK, it looks like I fried my ram considering the wierd memory test and the systems inabiltity to load the setup. I then grab another stick of RAM and try it in all three slots and no help.
I also tried another hard drive and psu..
So now I'm thinking it might be the memory controller or the cpu causing the problem. But I really have no idea. !HELP!
BTW: THIS DID NOT HAPPEN TO THE SYSTEM IN MY SIG.
Here is the system info:
AMD 2400 XP
SOYO SYkt 400 ULTRA
512 kingston value
60 gb WD IDE
failsafe defaults