How do you tell if your motherboard is about to die?

Published on April 20, 2005 By kona0197 In Personal Computing

I have a small problem. Every so often while booting my machine I get a blue screen of death and then the system reboots. It happens so fast I can't read what the error is. I changed a few things in my BIOS and it would finally boot. Actually the only thing I changed was the memory timing resulting in OC my RAM. Guess I will have to fix that. So how do you find out if your mobo is dying? I'm running Windows XP Pro with SP2 (Yes I'm using SP2 finally) and I have 512 megs of DDR RAM.

Comments (Page 2)

yrag

on Apr 21, 2005

That's why your files got corrupted and your mobo kept talking to you........

kona0197

on Apr 22, 2005

I doubt it. When I installed XP a week ago the memory was at 266 MHz. I OC it on the day I started this thread to see if it would help me get into XP so I could uninstall SP2. In the past it worked for some strange reason. My mobo has NEVER beeped at me ecept the normal one beep at boot time. The whole problem was with XP. It seems a I had a problem with SP2 and another problem with a bad driver.

Jafo

on Apr 22, 2005

Kona....I'd seriously be listening to yrag....if you overclocked your ram you will eventually incur errors...including data corruption, aka fragging the OS itself.

Mem has a 'designed speed' where it is determined to be 'stable'...exceed that at your own peril.

Once you overclock you can expect the OS to fail at one level or another....it's simple cause and effect...

Double Zero

on Apr 22, 2005

Overclocking is just not wise in any case..Unless you have a box that is a spare and you have no care what happens to it,,dont OC..it shortens the lifespan dramatically..

Zero.

HG_Eliminator

on Apr 22, 2005

instead of over clocking .. buy a faster unit ...

HG_Eliminator

on Apr 22, 2005

over clocking is a pure waste of time. you are willing to fry your pc and corrupt the data for a extra .5 mhz or so?.. it's simply not worth the risk... i mean if you got an extra 2 ghz out of it i would say it may be worth trying .. but geez 500 mhz or so isnt even worth the effort... the more you over clock a pc the quicker the data gets corrupted..

PurrBall

on Apr 22, 2005

but geez 500 mhz or so isnt even worth the effort...

It would be here...

It would double my speed.

kona0197

on Apr 22, 2005

No worries everyone. I'm not a "OC" kind of guy. Everything is now running smooth and nothing is OC.

Weaksid

on Apr 22, 2005

Cool your system enough and you won't have to overclock

kona0197

on Apr 23, 2005

Something wrong with your statement there weaksid. I know if I wanted to OC I would need to setup more ways to cool my system but why would I need to OC if my system is not cool enough?

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