Re: Boot problems

On Apr 27, 9:23 am, "Bo" <bo@.invalid.email> wrote:
"Dave" <dlm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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I have a homebuilt PC that's worked flawlessly for a year, and now it
won't boot up reliably. It's an MSI MS-7103 motherboard with a Celeron
D 2.66. I have one hard drive, a CD R/W drive, a wireless card and an
AGP DVI card.

It usually gets through POST and enters the Windows XP splash screen,
then it turns itself off. The odd thing is that if I can get it to
boot, it will run reliably all day long with no problem.

Here's what I've done so far:

*Replaced the CPU fan thinking it was a cooling issue. The new fan
works better, but I still have the problem.

*Reinstalled Windows.

*Completely disassembled the PC and put it back together again,
verifying all the connections.

Any ideas on what might be causing this, or what else I can try to
solve it?

Thanks!

Dave

I recently had the exact same problem- turned out to be a bad video card.

How did you determine that the video card was the problem?

.

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