Boot Problem

[Ranjya]

I have a 6yrs old P-3 866MHz, 128 x 2 SDRAM, GeForceFX5200 PCI graphic card on
i810e Kranion motherboard with a 20GB Seagate HDD.
Since 10 days all the OS's (WinXP-Pro, Fedora 7& Suse10.3) stop booting at random
stages.
The monitor light goes orange i.e no video feed.
Is this HDD problem ? After OS boots no problems.
Is this RAM problem ? I tried memtest86...test2 Pass.
Is this Powersupply problem.
It has to be hardware as different OS are involved.
Help!!
Suggestions!!

[nish_higher]

most probably its a ram problem
is it only with the os or nothing is shown?unplug the monitor from ur pc and u should see a No signal display on ur monitor if its right.

[kpmsivachand]

Which ram you are using? May be ram slot have dust...

[ravi_9793]

Do you hear some beeps at startUp???

If yes...count all small + long beeps.

[Ranjya]

Originally Posted by nish_higher

most probably its a ram problem
is it only with the os or nothing is shown?unplug the monitor from ur pc and u should see a No signal display on ur monitor if its right.

Why RAM ?
My PC boots sometimes.
Once it boots it keeps on working.
This is a boot time problem only.
During a greyout my daughter had repeatedly
cold booted PC. I think some vital HDD space has
been damaged.
I am going to get new HDD.
Ranjit.

Originally Posted by ravi_9793

Do you hear some beeps at startUp???

If yes...count all small + long beeps.

I get just 1 beep....OS starts to load and inbetween monitor
light goes yellow.
This happens randomly in the boot process of all OS.
No Beeps or I would have thought of defective RAM.
regards,
Ranjit.

[ax3]

try removing & cleaning ur RAM & its slot ..... & then plug it again .....

&

try whot @nish_higher ...... said ......

& if u think ur hdd has a problem, check @ ur frds\relative\neighbours place .....

[codename_romeo]

Try cleaning ur ram......use some eraser..... n then reinstall them...should solve the problem