jedicmdrwedg
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Recently I've been having a problem with my PC: it restarts for no apparent reason, especially when I initiate some task such as opening a new webpage or program. It started a few weeks ago and I thought nothing of it, as my PC has a tendency to miraculously find its way into--and then back out of--the weirdest situations. But it got to the point on Friday at which I couldn't use it at all. So, thinking it may have been a virus of some sort, I went ahead and formatted my hard drive. I was running only one hard drive with an OS, so if there was a virus it would be on there, and a format would solve my problem. I soon found that the problems were persisting, and soon it got so problematic that I couldn't even boot the computer up at all. The first time I would start it it would tell me that my CPU frequencies were badly adjusted before and ask me to reset them. Then I would do that and when I saved and exited, the computer would leave me with a blank screen. Fiddling with the BIOS, I eventually figured out thtat setting the CPU-RAM frequency ratio to 1:1 instead of "auto" let me get farther. Once I had got past the initial boot screen, I was presented with this message:
TRAP 00000006 ==================== EXCEPTION ====================
tr=0028 cr0=00000011 cr2=00000000 cr3=00000000
gdt limit=03FF base=00017400
cs:eip-0008:00404964 ss:esp=0010:00060E8C errcode=0000
flags=00010086 NoCy NoZr IntDis Down TrapDis
eax=00000081 ebx=00000005 ecx=0000A500 edx=00000000 ds=0010 es=0010
edi=00024548 esi=00000100 ebp=00060EB4 cr0=00000011 fs=0030 gs=0000
As my lingual skills do not cover Taiwanese, in which this message from Asus is obviously written, I was unable to decipher the message being conveyed. However, a few more tweaks in BIOS and I was able to boot as far as Windows. I can't keep it stable for more than thirty to sixty seconds before it restarts once more.
I have formatted the hard drive and come up with no improvement. The problem can be confined to hardware. I have switched out the RAM chips and tried different slots with all kinds of different settings. This has helped me eliminate RAM as a potential source for the problem. The only remaining suspects are the video card, the motherboard, and the PSU. I found another thread somewhere around here that linked to a page telling the user how much juice he needed to flow from his PSU based on his components. Given the hardware in my PC, the site told me I would need 250 watts. I have a three hundred-watt PSU from Zalman, a reliable company that puts out high-quality stuff, or at least dependable stuff. Or at least dependable enough. I don't know how much of an effect the video card would have on a PC in which the problem seems to be pre-OS. I think the problem is in the motherboard. Is there anyone here who can verify this, and perhaps tell me what I might go about doing to repair the problem?
TRAP 00000006 ==================== EXCEPTION ====================
tr=0028 cr0=00000011 cr2=00000000 cr3=00000000
gdt limit=03FF base=00017400
cs:eip-0008:00404964 ss:esp=0010:00060E8C errcode=0000
flags=00010086 NoCy NoZr IntDis Down TrapDis
eax=00000081 ebx=00000005 ecx=0000A500 edx=00000000 ds=0010 es=0010
edi=00024548 esi=00000100 ebp=00060EB4 cr0=00000011 fs=0030 gs=0000
As my lingual skills do not cover Taiwanese, in which this message from Asus is obviously written, I was unable to decipher the message being conveyed. However, a few more tweaks in BIOS and I was able to boot as far as Windows. I can't keep it stable for more than thirty to sixty seconds before it restarts once more.
I have formatted the hard drive and come up with no improvement. The problem can be confined to hardware. I have switched out the RAM chips and tried different slots with all kinds of different settings. This has helped me eliminate RAM as a potential source for the problem. The only remaining suspects are the video card, the motherboard, and the PSU. I found another thread somewhere around here that linked to a page telling the user how much juice he needed to flow from his PSU based on his components. Given the hardware in my PC, the site told me I would need 250 watts. I have a three hundred-watt PSU from Zalman, a reliable company that puts out high-quality stuff, or at least dependable stuff. Or at least dependable enough. I don't know how much of an effect the video card would have on a PC in which the problem seems to be pre-OS. I think the problem is in the motherboard. Is there anyone here who can verify this, and perhaps tell me what I might go about doing to repair the problem?
