Are my A64 dead?

[mbm]

Suddenly my system wont start.
It will boot, and I can go into bios.
But it will not go into windows. Only a black screen.
Ive tried to boot via win xp bootable CD. It stop at Expecting Hardware someting. The very first step after booting.

I have tried to clear cmos.
another gfx-card.
different ram.

What could be wrong?

system:
400W northQ
A64 3400+
Asus K8N-E
2x512 Crucial Ballistix.
G6800GT

[hollywood]

Suddenly my system wont start.
It will boot, and I can go into bios.
But it will not go into windows. Only a black screen.
Ive tried to boot via win xp bootable CD. It stop at Expecting Hardware someting. The very first step after booting.

I have tried to clear cmos.
another gfx-card.
different ram.

What could be wrong?

system:
400W northQ
A64 3400+
Asus K8N-E
2x512 Crucial Ballistix.
G6800GT

If you're getting into BIOs...then your CPU is fine. CPU's are very easy to tell if somethings wrong...if their ok...they work...if not...they're totally dead...no boot, no bios...no nothing

Whats most likely wrong is your boot sector is screwed on your hard-disk. Try to repair it with the XP CD, if not ...simply re-format. before you do though...re-set BIOS to default and get it roughly set-up. Don't install WINDOWS while OCed.

Again...you should be just fine if you can get to BIOS....reinstall.

[mbm]

But the problem is that I cant get into the windows xp setup.
when I boot from cd. It wont go any futher that detecting hardware, which is the very first step after bootign from the cd.

[STEvil]

could it be your hdd died, or your cdrom is death throes? Maybe something else?

Start swapping.

[mbm]

is there somekind of bootable program I can use to test my disc?
and se if it can find my differrent partitions.

Are you all sure that it can not by either the cpu or motherboard?

[STEvil]

could well be, but best to swap and test the easily accesable parts first.

[mbm]

Hollywood says that if I can get into Bios. It isn´t my CPU? Is that right?

I have no ekstra A64 CPU or mobo for that matter to test with.
So I have to know what the problem is before sending the broken part back to the manufactor.

[STEvil]

that is why you should be testing your hard drive, cdrom, video card, ram, and whatever you can test before testing them.

[Squid_Spit]

agreed, try a different hdd, cd rom etc..

[mbm]

I have tried with another gfx card and memory. same thing.
I dont have a spare HD.
Is there a bootable program I can burn to a CD, so I can check the HD?

What are the symtoms of a dead CPU?

[Elisha]

try http://www.knoppix.org/ it boots off the cd and doesn't even touvh the hard drive.
but you can full access your windows folder from it provided your hard drive is alive!

[agenda2005]

I have tried with another gfx card and memory. same thing.
I dont have a spare HD.
Is there a bootable program I can burn to a CD, so I can check the HD?

What are the symtoms of a dead CPU?

I had the same problem before too. The answer is simple. Your A64 CPU is not properly installed with the Heat sink, so immediately after boot up it overheat and the thermal throttle shut down your system based on the setting of your motherboard bios. Are you using some kind of exortic heatsink? Just remove the heatsink and the CPU from the socket, make sure your CPU is properly placed in the socket and that your heatsink is firmly in contact with your CPU and make sure you apply some thermal paste, just spread little over the CPU core and then firmly tighten your heatsink on the CPU. Let us know your sytem config so as to give us a good grasp of your problem. Good luck.

[reject]

reinstall windows ur wasting time trying to fix it. same happened to me, but dont format the partition and you documents will still be there

[niaboc79]

My K8NSNXP died after problems with the install of windows for me, i've tried to install win 8 times with blue screen each times! I was thinking that it was my dvd rom who was died so i swap with an other but the system will never boot again!

I've tested with just the mobo and a gfx and a mos fet burned! So try to test your cpu with an other motherboard.

[hollywood]

I have tried with another gfx card and memory. same thing.
I dont have a spare HD.
Is there a bootable program I can burn to a CD, so I can check the HD?

What are the symtoms of a dead CPU?

There are no symptoms of a dead CPU...it would simply be...dead.

I think you may have a fried ATA controller on your HDD. Or you could have flakey ram.


If you have 2 sticks of mem...try with just one...if it fails again...try with the other.

Then if both seem to fail...move onto your HDD. As it may have a fried component on it's PCB.


Yet again...if your system is booting and going into BIOS and showing iother "signs of life" then the CPU is fine. Unlike some other components, CPUs are mostly an "all or nothing" type part. They either work 100% or 0%. There is no grey area with a CPU.

[Super strokey]

I had the exact same problem with my hitachi deskstar, it was dead and i had to replace it. YOu get to a certain part of teh windows install and then it stalls, which more than likely means the same thing to me. Ask a friend if they have a drive you can borrow.

[Mister420]

i also would say its your Hard Drive. If u have another PC or an external HD enclosure i would recomend u try formatting that HD on another machine then try and see if u can copy files to it correctly. My Hard Drive could not so i knew it was no good. I changed hard drives and i could load windows perfectly.

good luck

[mbm]

It was my harddisk.
The filesystem was totally f ck up.
This is know the third time my disk f cks up. But after Fdisk, format and running diagnostics it find no errors, bad sectors etc. on the disk.

Could the motherboard be causing it somehow?
Or is it my overclocking?
I have been running different settings FSB/multipliers to test whats the fastest.
The PCI is locked at 33mhz and the AGP is locked too, if set to 67mhz instead of 66mhz.
What would be the best/safest setting for OC A64? It will do 300mhz FSB -but could this be causing the corruptions?
Is it better to run a low FSB?

[Fried_Spam]

You should run a DOS based memory testing program such as memtest86+ prior to attempting to run Windows. If you get any errors then don't attempt to boot Windows. Once in Windows then you can attempt a 3dmark or 32m superpi run to make sure that the system is basically stable. Prime95 for several hours with no errors usually will let you do anything with the system without worry of hdisk corruption.