Please Help

[simonbrock]

Oh im a bit stumped at the moment, I Had a system running XP Home Edition that worked perfectly fine until 3 weeks ago when it suddenly stopped working, so much so that i was even unable to install windows again because it froze at the same point everytime. So assuming that a piece of hardware had failed or sumfink i decided to take all my hardware out and strat from scratch, i removed my dvd drive, floppy drive, 1 stick of ram, sound card, network card, internal modem and my wireless network card to see if it was them causing a problem but still couldnt get windows to load or reinstall.
This has been eating away at me for too long now and the only options that are left are, dodgy processor, motherboard fault, bios fault or battery fault?? Any ideas and i would really appreciate them, thanks

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Do you remember at what point it failed? Any % value?

Things a PC NEEDS to be able to POST....

Motherboard, CPU (heatsink and fan please!!!), graphics card, monitor and
RAM - oh and strangely enough, a PSU (power supply unit)

Does it POST?


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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"simonbrock" > wrote in message
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>
> Oh im a bit stumped at the moment, I Had a system running XP Home
> Edition that worked perfectly fine until 3 weeks ago when it suddenly
> stopped working, so much so that i was even unable to install windows
> again because it froze at the same point everytime. So assuming that a
> piece of hardware had failed or sumfink i decided to take all my
> hardware out and strat from scratch, i removed my dvd drive, floppy
> drive, 1 stick of ram, sound card, network card, internal modem and my
> wireless network card to see if it was them causing a problem but still
> couldnt get windows to load or reinstall.
> This has been eating away at me for too long now and the only options
> that are left are, dodgy processor, motherboard fault, bios fault or
> battery fault?? Any ideas and i would really appreciate them, thanks
>
>
> --
> simonbrock

[simonbrock]

Well at the boot up it always fails/freezes as soon as the white bar at bottom of screen is full(does the same everytime) and when it comes to instalation it hangs once windows setup has copied the setup files and then you get the meesage "windows is starting setup". And i have removed everything apart from those listed below to check all hardware!

Do you remember at what point it failed? Any % value?

Things a PC NEEDS to be able to POST....

Motherboard, CPU (heatsink and fan please!!!), graphics card, monitor and
RAM - oh and strangely enough, a PSU (power supply unit)

Does it POST?


--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"simonbrock" wrote in message
...

Oh im a bit stumped at the moment, I Had a system running XP Home
Edition that worked perfectly fine until 3 weeks ago when it suddenly
stopped working, so much so that i was even unable to install windows
again because it froze at the same point everytime. So assuming that a
piece of hardware had failed or sumfink i decided to take all my
hardware out and strat from scratch, i removed my dvd drive, floppy
drive, 1 stick of ram, sound card, network card, internal modem and my
wireless network card to see if it was them causing a problem but still
couldnt get windows to load or reinstall.
This has been eating away at me for too long now and the only options
that are left are, dodgy processor, motherboard fault, bios fault or
battery fault?? Any ideas and i would really appreciate them, thanks


--
simonbrock

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Ask your local PC store to check your PSU.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"simonbrock" > wrote in message
...
>
> Well at the boot up it always fails/freezes as soon as the white bar at
> bottom of screen is full(does the same everytime) and when it comes to
> instalation it hangs once windows setup has copied the setup files and
> then you get the meesage "windows is starting setup". And i have
> removed everything apart from those listed below to check all
> hardware!
>
> Cari \(MS-MVP\) Wrote:
>> Do you remember at what point it failed? Any % value?
>>
>> Things a PC NEEDS to be able to POST....
>>
>> Motherboard, CPU (heatsink and fan please!!!), graphics card, monitor
>> and
>> RAM - oh and strangely enough, a PSU (power supply unit)
>>
>> Does it POST?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cari (MS-MVP)
>> Printing & Imaging
>>
>>
>>
>> "simonbrock" wrote in message
>> ...-
>>
>> Oh im a bit stumped at the moment, I Had a system running XP Home
>> Edition that worked perfectly fine until 3 weeks ago when it suddenly
>> stopped working, so much so that i was even unable to install windows
>> again because it froze at the same point everytime. So assuming that
>> a
>> piece of hardware had failed or sumfink i decided to take all my
>> hardware out and strat from scratch, i removed my dvd drive, floppy
>> drive, 1 stick of ram, sound card, network card, internal modem and
>> my
>> wireless network card to see if it was them causing a problem but
>> still
>> couldnt get windows to load or reinstall.
>> This has been eating away at me for too long now and the only options
>> that are left are, dodgy processor, motherboard fault, bios fault or
>> battery fault?? Any ideas and i would really appreciate them, thanks
>>
>>
>> --
>> simonbrock-
>
>
> --
> simonbrock

[simonbrock]

Thanks i will do that, will let ya know if its the problem :)

Ask your local PC store to check your PSU.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"simonbrock" wrote in message
...

Well at the boot up it always fails/freezes as soon as the white bar at
bottom of screen is full(does the same everytime) and when it comes to
instalation it hangs once windows setup has copied the setup files and
then you get the meesage "windows is starting setup". And i have
removed everything apart from those listed below to check all
hardware!

Cari \(MS-MVP\) Wrote:
Do you remember at what point it failed? Any % value?

Things a PC NEEDS to be able to POST....

Motherboard, CPU (heatsink and fan please!!!), graphics card, monitor
and
RAM - oh and strangely enough, a PSU (power supply unit)

Does it POST?


--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"simonbrock" wrote in message
...-

Oh im a bit stumped at the moment, I Had a system running XP Home
Edition that worked perfectly fine until 3 weeks ago when it suddenly
stopped working, so much so that i was even unable to install windows
again because it froze at the same point everytime. So assuming that
a
piece of hardware had failed or sumfink i decided to take all my
hardware out and strat from scratch, i removed my dvd drive, floppy
drive, 1 stick of ram, sound card, network card, internal modem and
my
wireless network card to see if it was them causing a problem but
still
couldnt get windows to load or reinstall.
This has been eating away at me for too long now and the only options
that are left are, dodgy processor, motherboard fault, bios fault or
battery fault?? Any ideas and i would really appreciate them, thanks


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simonbrock-


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simonbrock