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MarkW |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 14:52 |
try running the machine on minimum - ie: motherboard, cpu, one stick of ram, and graphics card, everything else like pci cards etc remove them, and disconnect hard drives and cd drives - see if the computer will now fire up like this, and just get to the post screen (the bit where it does memory count etc) if this works then you know it is going to be a problem, with something you have removed / disconnected - so therfore reconect and put back in pci cards one by one... | |
Dom |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 14:32 |
quote: fook me mate, why dont you just repeat what i said :rolleyes: however, i will agree with XP being shite....most people wont notice it because they just use word and are all happy with it, but as soon as you install some decent hardware and want to use it as a professional tool....its cack :( I have it falling over atleast once a day and have atleast half dozen errors come up about this and that and IE shat itself so its shutting down etc etc And it will usually fook up explorer (OS shell) and will restart itself.... if only i could go back to 2k :( however back on topic, sounds like something is hashed for sure mate. Could be anything from the CPU, fried mobo to dodgy ram :( [Edited on 03-10-2004 by VisibleMan] | |
James_DT |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 13:17 |
quote: XP is far from poo. You don't know how to use car polish, I feel you cannot comment on such things.:lol: | |
Corsa Sport Gav |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 13:05 |
yer, but sumtimeit would boot up, but i could be playing a game and it wud just freeze and i narrowed it down to RAM, might not be the same prob, but might be | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 13:02 |
So did you have the same problem as me? where nothing responds, nothing comes on the screen what so ever? | |
Corsa Sport Gav |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:59 |
it cud be a RAM prob... it happened to me.. the RAM kept on freezing, repalced it and all was fine :) | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:56 |
Still not working. When i switch it on nothing at all comes on the screen so i cant get into bios. I put the xp disc in and still nothing comes on the screen and the monitor stays on the orange bulb setting. | |
Andrew |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:42 |
Try and boot it from your XP CD. If you have no options in your BIOS to do this then download the bootable floppy files from the MS web-site. | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:40 |
Nothing is coming up on the screen at all now. It did this morning to the xp loading screen but then turned off. Now there is nothing at all. | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:39 |
no nothing comes on the screen at all. The monitor just turns onto the orange bulb thing (standby i think). | |
willay |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:38 |
and if you dont know what safe mode is.. quote: | |
Dom |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:37 |
quote: he said that it loads to the XP startup screen :rolleyes: personally mate, grab a copy of your XP cd, go into your bios and set the first startup deivice to the cd drive and see if you can get it to boot into the XP cd. If it does then leave it for a while and keeping checking on it, to see if it switches off etc. If it doesnt, then reinstall XP and see if its that screwing around with the ACPI (think thats the one) :) | |
willay |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:36 |
quote: ok thats a good start, that windows xp loading screen is the splash screen. Try going into safe mode. | |
Dom |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:35 |
quote: not really mate...usually the processor is the most expensive part. You can pick up a bloody decent mobo for 60 quid :thumbs: | |
Andrew |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:35 |
Anything coming on the screen? | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:34 |
yeah, there is lights on. Now when this problem happened before the lights flashed. Now they just stay on constantly... | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:33 |
damn. most expensive part aswell lol. | |
Andrew |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:32 |
Is there power getting to the system? i.e. any lights on? | |
Andrew |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:31 |
New motherboard time i think. | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:30 |
not sure what a windows splash screen is mate, but it got to the xp loading screen but then just turned off. Now it doesnt get no where. | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:29 |
I replaced the power supply to a 400 a fair few months ago, and that solved it for a while but it kept happening now and again. Eventually it kind of sorted itself out somehow... | |
willay |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:28 |
how far into the bootup did it get? | |
Andrew |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:25 |
Make sure the motherboard is not touching any of the case. There should be either plastic or brass stands between the board and case. | |
Sam.S |
posted on 3rd Oct 04 at 12:20 |
Well, my computer has decided to pack in for a while (again!! ) so am just looking for any advice from what the problem could be. |