Overlord44
Programmer
I've been fixing up a PC for my grandfather - setting internet settings right, getting printer set up, etc.
I'd just finished, and decided to restart the machine to make sure all of my settings had taken to OK. On restart, the machine got half way through the process, did a BSOD and automatically restarted. However, it locked up at a certain boot point. I hit the reset button - and it hasn't booted at ALL since, with the exception of 3 occasions when it's gotten to the BIOS and frozen at 3 different points.
Any ideas what's up? The machine was working just peachy before, and all of a sudden it's stopped working. When I power it up, it either:
(a) Starts up HDD motors, checks CD as usual, powers all fans up, flashes keyboard lights, but does NO beep or monitor output (the most usual happening)
(b) Does above, but beeps, shows output and freezes at various parts of the BIOS (has happened about 3 times out of the 50 I must have tried by now).
I'd just finished, and decided to restart the machine to make sure all of my settings had taken to OK. On restart, the machine got half way through the process, did a BSOD and automatically restarted. However, it locked up at a certain boot point. I hit the reset button - and it hasn't booted at ALL since, with the exception of 3 occasions when it's gotten to the BIOS and frozen at 3 different points.
Any ideas what's up? The machine was working just peachy before, and all of a sudden it's stopped working. When I power it up, it either:
(a) Starts up HDD motors, checks CD as usual, powers all fans up, flashes keyboard lights, but does NO beep or monitor output (the most usual happening)
(b) Does above, but beeps, shows output and freezes at various parts of the BIOS (has happened about 3 times out of the 50 I must have tried by now).