A mate of mine was away for about a week and when he came back his comp wouldnt work, as far as he knows there has been no one near it but anyway.
I've built a few comps over the years including his and Im stumped as to what the hell is going on, basically it wont boot, not even to the BIOS.
I switched the cmos jumper to reset it and also tried booting in safemode.
Problem is If I reset the cmos it will get to the BIOS and as soon as I save the BIOS settings and restart it wont boot again, so I then have to reset the CMOS jumper again thus deleting any BIOS changes I made, This makes installing windows an issue, I managed to get it to boot once and tried installing XP but the install got an error at the end (obviously, sigh) and when rebooted I was back to square 1.
What is likely to be at issue here?, dodgey power supply (he has a decent coolermaster one around 6 months old, 600w iirc), broke mobo?
DFI lanparty NF4, Opteron 146, 4Gb ram etc all typical stuff really.
Im not sure how clear the situation is, ask any questions and I'll clarify if need be!
Cheers, Neural.
I've built a few comps over the years including his and Im stumped as to what the hell is going on, basically it wont boot, not even to the BIOS.
I switched the cmos jumper to reset it and also tried booting in safemode.
Problem is If I reset the cmos it will get to the BIOS and as soon as I save the BIOS settings and restart it wont boot again, so I then have to reset the CMOS jumper again thus deleting any BIOS changes I made, This makes installing windows an issue, I managed to get it to boot once and tried installing XP but the install got an error at the end (obviously, sigh) and when rebooted I was back to square 1.
What is likely to be at issue here?, dodgey power supply (he has a decent coolermaster one around 6 months old, 600w iirc), broke mobo?
DFI lanparty NF4, Opteron 146, 4Gb ram etc all typical stuff really.
Im not sure how clear the situation is, ask any questions and I'll clarify if need be!
Cheers, Neural.
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