for around a year ive been running a Slot-A Athlon 850 on an Abit KA7 mobo, with minimal problems. so the other day i power up the ole pc .. and the monitor stay in suspend, but my power light, drive light, and cd rom lights are all on and the OS doesnt load ... its just sits there... so im like ok what the hell. power down, power on and its ok so i think nothing of it. well it persistantly got worse to the point it would do this several times in a row ... now it either doesnt POST, or if it actually does, when it goes to boot Win2k Prof it starts the boot then blammo, monitor suspends and all the lights stay on. so im thinking ok my processor is fried, so i pop it out and put it in the other machine in the house, and put its 550 in mine. 850 runs fine on pc2, and pc1 posts fine with the 550, EXCEPT when i go into bios, when i exit bios, suspend/lights again.

any clues? this machine is a dual-boot setup with Win 2k Prof / Mandrake Linux and none of the components are over a year old ... only thing i can think of at this point is mobo .. or is it possible my power supply is flaking and not pushing enough to power the 850?

suggestions welcome !

thanks!

i'm sorry to have to say that but it does not look good... :-?

but there's many things you should try :

1) try removing all agp/pci cards and then only connect the agp card and try to boot.

2) if 1) does not help on anything, you should try different sdram/ddr on your mobo, maybe it's just a memory issue even if there's no warning error during the bios test.

tell me the results of these tests...