POST, and other boot problems

Howdy,

We have a number of machines with the Foxconn Series 600 motherboards, with 1 Gig of RAM, AMD 3200+ Processors, 180GB hard drive and windows xp.

Upon powering up, most of the time the computer fails wihle POSTing... one long beep,. repeated continuusly. Looking around the foxconn website, this seems to indicate that the memory is not seated properly - so in all machines, I've reseated the memory, even tried other modules, still no fix.

When these machines DO boot up, 9 out of 10 times windows comes up with this message prior to logging on:

"An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in, or write out, or flush, one of the files that contain the system's image of the Registry."

Personally, I've not seen this message until now... and can't really find anything useful on the internet either. Clicking OK will reboot the machine, where we are back at the POST problems.

WOuld anyone have any ideas? To me, it sounds like a dodgy motherboard, but unless I can prove it, I can't ask the manufacturer to replace them!

Adam

 

I'd have to go with either a bad motherboard, or a lot of bad memory modules.

if you have it or can download the trial (I'm not sure if it eliminates features from the trial) of PCcertify, it maybe able to diagnose which piece of hardware is causing the problem.

Hope that helps some.

 

Long continues beeps are due to RAM problems, either not seated properly or simply bad/incompatible RAM. Also the error message such as the ones you posted could easily be caused by the above mentioned culprit.
Is the DDR RAM sticks 1GB each if so does the mobo support the type/size?
If there are multiple RAM sticks, it is half the time caused by compatibility issues even between the same make/model RAMs if they were not a matched pair.
The motherboard being a unknown brand leads me to believe it could be caused by the mobo itself. Check to make sure the mobo supports the type and size of RAM installed, if using multiple sticks try one stick at a time to observe the differences. I didn't see that you mention the type and brand of the RAM so I am assuming it is a generic brand of so then there is your problem, never ever used generic RAM with AMD chipset mobos...
Let us know if you find something else.