To make a long story short, windows 7 had wanted to install it's normal updates for my mothers pc.
It had some some other hardware updates it wanted to do, I went to bed at 12:15am.
I woke up windows crashed and I rebooted and strangely the bios was over written and erased.
My mothers MSI mobo wanted a bios reflash in order to boot up.
I did so and everything worked fine until windows 7 loaded up all programs 7 minutes later it froze.
Again the same process happened, I erased the hdd contents using my eee netbook and formatted it with NTFS.
Finally even without anything on the hard drive it locked bios again I restart the pc and I am back to **** again....
Twenty minutes ago the system is working great without the hdd, bios did say briefly that it had a error with DQ4 failure or IRQ failure it said to reset the pc.
I moved the ram into another spot with no errors and I am about to replace the IDE cable.
Can anyone tell me what could be the problem before I contact MSI on monday afternoon for a RMA return ?
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EDIT:
I think I may know what the problems is while my motherboard is requesting a bios reflash I get "3" short beeps and then a long beep and a reboot with the same problem.
Could my old Dynex 400 watt be getting ready to give way ?
I read a little bit of what mike myers book said and the comptia A+ site says about 3 short beeps:
Beeps Meaning
Steady, short beeps Power supply may be bad
Long continuous beep tone Memory failure
Steady, long beeps Power supply bad
No beep Power supply bad, system not plugged in, or power not turned on
It had some some other hardware updates it wanted to do, I went to bed at 12:15am.
I woke up windows crashed and I rebooted and strangely the bios was over written and erased.
My mothers MSI mobo wanted a bios reflash in order to boot up.
I did so and everything worked fine until windows 7 loaded up all programs 7 minutes later it froze.
Again the same process happened, I erased the hdd contents using my eee netbook and formatted it with NTFS.
Finally even without anything on the hard drive it locked bios again I restart the pc and I am back to **** again....
Twenty minutes ago the system is working great without the hdd, bios did say briefly that it had a error with DQ4 failure or IRQ failure it said to reset the pc.
I moved the ram into another spot with no errors and I am about to replace the IDE cable.
Can anyone tell me what could be the problem before I contact MSI on monday afternoon for a RMA return ?
___________________________________________________________________________________
EDIT:
I think I may know what the problems is while my motherboard is requesting a bios reflash I get "3" short beeps and then a long beep and a reboot with the same problem.
Could my old Dynex 400 watt be getting ready to give way ?
I read a little bit of what mike myers book said and the comptia A+ site says about 3 short beeps:
Beeps Meaning
Steady, short beeps Power supply may be bad
Long continuous beep tone Memory failure
Steady, long beeps Power supply bad
No beep Power supply bad, system not plugged in, or power not turned on