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Wiz2000
7-23-04, 03:22 PM
Hello,
I have a desktop with a pent 4 1.4 gb...... Motherboard P4vxas

I bought a new Hard Drive, Graphics gard and sound card. Seagate, Radden 9600 and Soundblaster Audigy

So i install the windows xp fresh. (my hard drive crashed orginally)

then i put all the sound and graphic and ram in.. Runs Beutiful updated everything.. Perfection restarts about five times.. No poblems

Go to screw all cards in... Now it wont start in windows normally and only goes to safe mode.


any ideas?
winbyte
7-23-04, 03:51 PM
Tell me you didnt screw all the screws in while it was running......If you did you most likely fried something in your system. Try reformatting and reloading and if that doesnt work then find out what you destroyed.

One other thing you can try is while in safemode, find system restore and send your computer back to an earlier, happier time and see if that fixes it.
Wiz2000
7-23-04, 03:57 PM
system restore didnt work.

No i turned the computer off before i screwed them in
winbyte
7-23-04, 04:50 PM
Ok, did you install and update your Anti-Virus program as soon as you got it loaded and did you update the definitions as soon as you got onto the internet? If you answer no then you may have got yourself a virus as soon as you hit the internet. It happened to me and I do this for a living. :p

Since you have really got nothing installed worth saving yet then go ahead and try the reload after reformatting your drive.

What, if anything, did you load onto your computer just prior to the system messing up? Just drivers? If that is the case then you may have got a bad driver install or if it is a program it too may have glitched and messed up your system.

Ray
(jj)
7-23-04, 05:03 PM
Just curious, but did you try removing the screws again to see if the computer would boot normally?

Could be that when you put the screws in, it caused the mobo to be pressed down and causing a pin to not be connected or one of the cards you tightened is pulling up at the back as you tighten the screw.
Wiz2000
7-24-04, 04:40 AM
It looks like the Sound Card was in the wrong pci slot.. Its up and workign with virus protection and zone alarm..
IanS
7-24-04, 05:29 AM
It looks like the Sound Card was in the wrong pci slot.. Its up and workign with virus protection and zone alarm..There is no 'right' or 'wrong' slot in theory. By moving it you may have simply re-seated it correctly.
(jj)
7-24-04, 05:51 AM
As IanS states, there is not right or wrong slot for a particular card (except an AGP video card). Since the system worked before you tightened the screws, most likely the sound card was partially unseated when you screwed it down.

But no matter the reason, at least you got it working again :)
brightman
7-31-04, 09:10 PM
Be careful with the screws ...
I had a problem with one of them i've drpoped in the case and it was making a short connection every time the desk under the case was touched. It was very scaring when you put a book on the desk and the computer goes to sleep :)
brightman
8-31-04, 04:09 PM
and another similar problem - a friend of mine fried his cell phone because of some static discharge off his case - waranty didn't cover it...
Raid_5
9-6-04, 12:30 AM
what error does it give when you try to boot in normal mode a blue screen or just reboots

if u can acess safe mode den check up ur logs so see what exactly happened..

did u before hook up ur pc to network to check if the internet works on it without a fiewall or antivirus to do the updates you mite have gotten a worm or so..