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HEY. two things to check before you call an expensive electrician. first I assume you have a telephone line plugged into the modem, try shutting it down, disconnecting it and touch the case to discharge the static buildup, then repower without the phone line attached and see if it occurs...

If you reformatted the disk then there won't be an antivirus to disable unless it's a bios type supplied by the manufascturer. More likely the system.ini file is coorupt or empty. Here's what Microsoft says. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=306482 GSFDigital

After some reading, I have found a few references to setting the IP address of the dns server to the loopback 127.0.0.1? GSFDigital

I'll give your tech tip a try this evening, someone also suggested that demote the Active Directory and then re-promote it. GSFDigital

No. Client is XP professional and other is windows 2000 advance server. GSFDigital

First, if possible connect another monitor and video cable to the computer and see if you still have the issue. If you do than it's not the monitor but is the power saver settings on the computer. If the second monitor does work than you might see if there's a reset button or reset pinhole on...

When you pwer off they typically release your IP to another user, but frequently yours will still try to use it which creates a conflict. When you restart try going to the command prompt and type ipconfig /release, wait for the reply and then type ipconfig /renew This would reassign a fresh ip...

If you added the video card, and there is one built in to the main board, try going into bios and disable the onboard video. there may be a conflict of IRQ's or one not being given to the pci video and that would halt the startup. GSFDigital

Might try bios updates. Also if you haven't done it yet you might download a startup disk from Mcaffee to scan for a virus that is blocking access. Virus problems usually start as annoyances and progressively get worse, which my account for the issues before wiping the disk. GSFDigital

I have a windows 2ooo server with Active Directory installed, DHCP, DNS all on same box connected through a router to my cable modem ISP. My client PC can pping the server but not join the domain. It is set up for DHCP address and the config is as follows. DHCP assigned IP 192.168.1.201 subnet...

One odd thing to check if the cpu is faulting or the fans seemed to speed up excessively is to make sure you fan and heat sink are centered correctly. We had a bunch of compaqs that were acting up and it was a problem with the fan and heat sink not being centered and thus creating stress on the...

Hit the internet and search for "Barebones" computers. $960.00 will buy you alot of horesepower, but save some of it for adding additional memory and a decent video card with at least 64mb. GSFDigital

Typically it's eiother a mother board or power supply issue, if you've been poking around in the bios make sure you haven't changed the power options, also with windows xp you can control the aaction taken whent he power button is depressed. GSFDigital

You have to get into the event viewer and see what the root cause of the problem is. If you suspect Tempature issues than try additional temporary cooling to see if it resolves it, if not than look for imminent hardware failure coming soon. GSFDigital