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by ice440 1 view

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A friend of mine is having a wierd problem with his computer!!!! It is as follows:
Problem: System fully starts up successfully and when Windows 98 finishes starting the computer resets (restarts as if I hit the reset
button). The BIOS sometimesfreezes after these resets.
Specs: Motherboard:Soyo SY-7VCA (FSB socket 370, 66-133 MHz bus, Via 694x/686A chipset, ATX, Soyo AI-BIOS,1xAMR, 1xAGP, 5xPCI, 1ISA, 3 DIMM for PC100/133 SDRAM, support suspend RAM/disk)
Hard Drive:
Western Digital HD(3.2 GB)
CD-ROM:
Aopen 24x CD-ROM
Video:Really old video card!
That?s it.
Note: There is sufficient power being provided. Already updated the BIOS.

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by dmiles

The video card need to be updated to latest drivers,may be going out. If this is not the problem you can run scan disk to check for disk errors,also run the antivirus to make sure you have not picked up a virus that may be attacking your MBR.

by ice440

Thank you! It turned out bad video drivers were part of the problem along with an incompatable CD-ROM driver.

by cajundon

Hi,

Your friend needs to get a new AGP video card with the latest driver. Whatever graphics card he buys, check at
http://www.windrivers.com
for the latest driver.

Good luck.

Don Thibodaux, Independent Computer Technology Consultant.

by tuck46

if the fan goes bad pc will overheat and restart, or a bad power supply will cause same problem. Also have had bad ram cause reboot, this will also cause bios to "freeze".

by berserker

Check that all of the PCI slots including the CPU slot is inserted properly. Sometime bad connection can cause the computer to restart. Run an anticirus program to check if there is any possibilities of infection.

My first guess is that the computer has too much static and you need to move away some of magnetic peripheral such as unshielded speakers. Try to unplug all of the components and reassemble them again. make sure you ground yourself first by touching the inner casing .

by mgb022660

Sounds to me like "someone" messed with their bios settings. Try going back in at system startup and change the bios to start using the default settings. Is your memory all pc100 or all pc133?

by rhamby

Does it do the same in safe mode? If you don't know how to do this just turn on the pc and keep hitting the f8 key until you get a boot menu, select safe maode then hit enter.

by ice440

Thank you! It turned out bad video drivers were part of the problem along with an incompatable CD-ROM driver. Your answer helped to troubleshoot it.

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