- Oct 9, 2003
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This morning I went to my computer to find a completely white screen with a black border on my monitor. I tried to reboot my computer and it went to a screen that told me that my computer didn't boot properly, do I want to continue normally, safe mode, blah, blah, blah. Thinking I had no real problem, I told it to boot normally. It went to the first boot screen then nothing. I turned it off and back on with the same results. This time, I told it to boot with the last known good configuration, same problem. Now when I turn it on I get nothing on the monitor, black screen. I have a spare monitor and have changed the monitors with no improvement. I tried to boot from the Windows XP disk and nothing happens.
Last night when playing Soldier of Fortune II, my computer froze several times and I assumed that my game had gotten screwed up somehow and tried to fix the install several times and just wound up uninstalling it entirely. I had planned on doing a fresh install this morning. Note: I did get a blue screen about hardware changes a couple of times. I had no other problems with the computer other than when in this game. Everything else worked perfectly.
My motherboard is a new MSI K7N2L and has a "D" bracket with diagnostic LED's. The LED configuration is telling me that it is hanging up at "memory detection test". Since I'd had a RAM chip fail a couple months ago, I knew that this can cause all sorts of problems. I pulled each chip out individually and restarted the computer with no change in the situation. Now I've noticed that the keyboard lights aren't working, and I have no temperature readings on my hardcano.
I'm thinking bad motherboard. Help......please.
AMD Athlon XP 2000 @ 1.67 ghz
MSI K7N2L motherboard
Crucial PC 2100 DDR ram
IBM 40Gig Hard Drive
Thermaltake Xaser III case
Thermaright SLK800 heat sink
Windows XP Home Edition (yeah, I know)
Last night when playing Soldier of Fortune II, my computer froze several times and I assumed that my game had gotten screwed up somehow and tried to fix the install several times and just wound up uninstalling it entirely. I had planned on doing a fresh install this morning. Note: I did get a blue screen about hardware changes a couple of times. I had no other problems with the computer other than when in this game. Everything else worked perfectly.
My motherboard is a new MSI K7N2L and has a "D" bracket with diagnostic LED's. The LED configuration is telling me that it is hanging up at "memory detection test". Since I'd had a RAM chip fail a couple months ago, I knew that this can cause all sorts of problems. I pulled each chip out individually and restarted the computer with no change in the situation. Now I've noticed that the keyboard lights aren't working, and I have no temperature readings on my hardcano.
I'm thinking bad motherboard. Help......please.
AMD Athlon XP 2000 @ 1.67 ghz
MSI K7N2L motherboard
Crucial PC 2100 DDR ram
IBM 40Gig Hard Drive
Thermaltake Xaser III case
Thermaright SLK800 heat sink
Windows XP Home Edition (yeah, I know)