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by tracarts

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Okay, I am feeling very dumb here. I recently had to replace the motherboard in my computer. The replacement necesitated also replacing the chip. Now I have a first mainboard motherboard with a 1.3 amd athlon socket a chip. The thing that is driving me up a wall is that after all the reset up, including a new harddrive, the stupid system, goes into a restart loop. It will fire all the way to the wallpaper and then for no discernable reason just go back to the beginning screen with my videocard, reloads the bios settings, redetects the harddrives and restarts windows, then this happens over and over and over again. At some point, the stupid thing just decides to start up. When it finally does start windows all the way, it runs just fine. What can be causing this?

I have updated every driver, updated the bios, and the chipset drivers. The system is running win98 v2. It has a Voodoo3 2000 video card (probably should be upgraded), a lynksys nic card, a zoom telephonics modem, the sound is onboard the motherboard. A standard 101 keyboard and a usb optical mouse. Any ideas?

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by dklippert

MS has an article called ?
"Windows Restarts Continuously"
Type the following in the address box of I.E.

MSKB Q148919

They ask you to go into Safe mode and:
Check your autoexec.bat file to see if it has the line
win.com /W
-or-
win.com /WX

There are some other suggestions, but you might want to try that one.
For that matter, you could rename Autoexec.bat and config.sys and be just fine unless you?re using legacy devices.

by dmiles

Go to the AMD web site and check for a fix,it seems that the CPU and the video card are conflicting and is causing a restart problem,it has to do with the timing of the two
www.amd.com

by tracarts

Amd has identified that this is not a chip issue. seems to actually be a conflict with my video card.

by jrjacques

If none of the previous answers helped than you probable have an IRQ conflict with poor drivers ( fewf are actually able to handle this although the definition of PCI indicates they should). The solution is to remove/disable everything but the videoand drives (ie disable the sound on in the bios). If the system turns on properly restore them one at a time until it nolonger works (sometimes this solfes itself as the motherboard changes IRQ assignments). When problem reoccures move the device toanother PCI slot.

by tracarts

Thank you, after removing everything, but the video card, the problem seems to be with the video card. But, I have yet to get a new one to test it for sure. Thanks for all the idea's, I knew I could count on techrepublic members.

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