Computer idle as soon as it is switched on

[philliboy]

Hi,
I wonder if you could help me. This is really doing my head in! I have a 3.0ghz P4, 512MB DDR Ram, 80 gig HDD and an Internal shared graphics adapter (Intel 82865g)Running XP Pro. This computer was made for me about 4 weeks ago and was running nicely until the other day. One morning it started freezing up while playing games, but I just restarted it and it went on fine. The next day, it won't boot at all! I turn it on and the hard disk light comes on and STAYS on. I straight away see the blue "Intel Pentium 4 Desktop Boards" loading screen but thats it. It stops there. It won't do anything. No safe mode to go into or anything. Please could you help on this?

Thanks

 

[franklin97355]

Take it back and let the people that made it for you worry about it. If you start messing with it there will be no taking it back.

 

[Crowley16]

sounds like a bios problem if you're not getting past post...

if you can, get the makers to fix it, if you can't, try flashing your bios...

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Procrastinate Now!

 

[gus669]

Reseat the processor, and RAM as long as you don't void your warranty by doing it. Make sure processor fan is spinning.