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Update: My new motherboard appeared to be a dud. My minimal system with a video card and hard drive wouldn't even boot from a floppy. I was so mad I decided to leave it for a few days until I cooled down. I decided to try some different RAM and see if that enabled it to boot up. If that...

I found one for sale. $125. I would consider just getting a new motherboard and cpu combo (better future upgrade options) but I just got this p3 last summer and I don't want to abandon it. I don't have any other use for it as my other pc is even older. Thanks to everyone for their help...

All that I have in the machine right now is the video card, one hard drive and a CD burner. All other cards have been removed. I put in a different video card and it still rebooted after a few minutes. So I started it up in Safe mode. Same thing!! Thinks its time to start looking at a...

Drew, It was a generic power supply from a computer supply store. ---- Last night I unplugged all of the cards and left only the video card in. I started it up a few times and it rebooted after only a few minutes! I have an old Matrox card that I'll try and see what happens.

Max, Previously I removed each and every card and then reseated them. Also I disabled the screen saver and any power management settings. I also tried switching to another video card as well as removing the video drivers and rebooting. All these things were done under Windows 2000. I...

Memtest has not reported a single error and it was running all night. I literally replaced the power supply 2 weeks ago. I put in a 300w power supply (the previous one was 250w). That seemed to fix the original problem of the machine hanging. Now it is rebooting. I have installed a clean...

Thanks for the recommendations guys. Am running the memtest program even as we speak. So far after 2 hours there are no reported errors.... All fans are working and I checked the placement of the DIMMS. They are in slot 1 and 2. If the RAM checks out okay I will try removing everything...

UPDATE: My PC is at it again. The new power supply seemed to have solved the problem but now I am finding that after a little while it will reboot. It doesn't hang - it'll reboot itself. If I leave it for a while and move the mouse that will sometimes cause the reboot. Sometimes it'll...

Drew, YOU THE MAN!! Got a new power supply and put it in last night. My PC ran all night with nary a hiccup. Good call. I was beside myself trying to figure out what was wrong. Thanks to everybody for their help.

Well it doesn't seem like a RAM problem. I swapped out one RAM module at a time and it would still hang after a while. Unless both RAM modules are flakey but that seems unlikely. I also tried removing all the cards and only leaving in the video and Promise card. I even unscrewed these...

DennisHP: I have the latest bios update for the motherboard and service pack 2 for Windows 2000. Both have been installed for quite some time. AllenN: It's not a heat issue as I have the case open right now. Plus I checked the cpu temp and fan speed in the bios and all is well. KevinP...

Well it's definitely not a video card problem. I swapped out the Voodoo3 2000 AGP card with an ATI video card I had in another system. Still locked up. The screen saver has been set to none for some time now and there are no power saving features turned on in Windows or in BIOS. I tried...

The problem remains! I removed each card and then reseated them individually and screwed them in. I can start the machine and go into the BIOS setup and it it'll work fine. Once I go into Windows it will only work for a short time. I have had it hang at the login prompt as well as when...

Thanks for the suggestions fellows. I will try it out tonight and let you know how it works.

Something strange is happening to my desktop PC (Pentium 3 850 running Windows 2000 Pro). I don't use the computer very much as I do most of my work on my laptop. I just use the desktop for FTP and other things and I have had it running at another house. Lately I went to pick up the...