My PC freezes and reboots

[Tomahawk]

On March 2002 I wrote this:

All of a sudden my computer started freezing, rebooting or the screen going black and I here is what I did to try solve the situation, but nothing has worked.
But first the configuration:

Intel D815EEA2 mttherbooard with integrated AGP, LAN, Sound
ATI All in Wonder Pro PCI
384MB ECC Memory
30GB Seagate HDD
Celeron 500 MHz
Creative Labs CD-ROM, NEC CD-Burner
DSL Modem
W2000 Pro

Situation: 5 months running smoothly, suddenlly the problem starts.

Troubleshooting performed:

Replaced Memory
Replaced processor FAN
Removed ATI Card
Scanned Disk, found no problems
Reformatted Hard Drive
Reinstalled operating system

Result:
Same thing, nothing happens, the system hangs, freezes, cannot use start button, hourglass always present.

What is going on?, the only actions remaining are replacing tha processor or the motherboard. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I received suggestions to change the power supply and I did so. It worked fine for a while but now it came back again.

Any more suggestions?


Thank you

 

[Mulga]

Given that you have already covered the most likely possibilities, particularly the RAM, I would strongly suspect the motherboard. Just as a faint chance I would try disconnecting your CD ROM, Burner and floppy drives and seeing if that makes any difference. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[wolluf]

Mulga's disconnection approach is a good one. Disconnect everything possible that should still let you use machine - so just need hard drive, keyboard, mouse & graphics. If you've several sticks of memory, just use one (at a time). Disable integrated functions in bios (if you can). If it does load, add one device at a time, until you hit the trouble. If it doesn't load, agree with Mulga again - probably motherboard.