I have a pcchips p21g v1 motherboard, but it wont display anything when i power on the machine. A freind gave me the machine, it was a custom build with a 3.0 ghz p4 (Hyperthreaded with 2 threads), 2 gigs of pc 3200 400mhz ram, and 400 watt psu. (id rather not list the perifferals its too much information, i just wish to find an answer to my problem.) At first it worked fine, then it started to randomly freeze, then it crashed more and more often, then it wouldnt boot past bios, and now this. any ideas? Im a tech specialist, but im just dumbfounded by this problem.

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Hi krusty_623.

If this is new RAM, you might want to try removing the battery from the motherboard, resetting the CMOS (clears out all the old hardware settings) and putting the battery back in so that the motherboard redetects the RAM as if the setup was brand new. I've had the same problem only once on a RAM upgrade and it baffled me. Once I reset the CMOS the motherboard accepted the new RAM without any problems. I don't know if this will work for you, but it's a simple thing to try.

Spacetime

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There is a little program called CPUz.
Download it here:  http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpuz_149.zip

Extract the exe and ini files and run the exe.
When the program comes up, click the Mainboard tab and your manufacturer and model are right there.

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Hi,

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Robert Nyilas

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• Posted on Jul 17, 2009

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the memory stick going in one way into the module. If you can't close the clips try to rotate it 180 degrees.

when windows starts hit F8 key and select disable automatic start on system failure.
This will bring you a blue screen with the specified error

also you can boot from windows xp cd and at first screen select repair, this will put you in recovery console
in recovery console you can scan your hardrive for errors like this:
chkdsk c: /p /r

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can't say for sure but I would believe it would have to be with your power supply, you might not be getting enough power out to run the card. Try putting in a different power supply and see if that works.