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Originally Posted by altis
Have you tried replacing the PSU?
Unfortunately, most peeps are unwilling to spend much money on this item. Consequently, most products are designed down to a price with many corners cut. This is sad, 'cos these components they are subject to high stress and the PC can exhibit all sorts of random errors when they start to fail.
It's the first place I start when a PC is misbehaving. I'll also remove all cards, memory and the CPU then spray some contact cleaner on all the contacts and, except for the CPU, rub them with kitchen towel. Then I'll put the system back together one board at a time. Start with CPU, memory and graphics card; boot and test and, if all is well, add the next most important card.
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nope.
I dont have the experience to replace it, I know how to do RAM (just don't know how to find the types), HD, CD and DVD Drives. Can't do mobo, psu, cpu stuff...
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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
sounds like cpu or mobo faulty to me
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Well after a few attempts of removing the mem, and switching I mananged to get to the windows boot section.
I took one out, tried to boot off the windows xp cd, and it told me the drive was corrupt. Tried the other RAM stick, didn't get as far as I did to the other stick... Put both in... usually now and then it failed to go as far as the first stick coming up with .sys file is corrupted before then... usually some different file each time. Sometimes it went to the install window, delete partition etc.. screen. When it did i went to install window to be told it was corrupted again.. after trying a few more times doing the same thing I suspected a HD issue.
So I decided to try out the delete partitions stuff.. selected to delete the main partition, and then retried to install windows XP on it. Success... now I just need to find out whether its fixed all the other problems....