Hello everyone, got a PC from a mate here that I'm trying to fix and I need some help because I'm tearing my hair out here.
When I boot up the PC it gets to the Windows XP splash screen and looks like its about to boot up but about 5 seconds into that it shuts itself off. I opened it up and I've never seen a PC so dusty in my whole life, so got the trusty old hoover out and sorted that - still wouldn't boot up.
I then went into safe mode, cleaned 1230 (yes you read that right, 1230) malware/viruses. Figured it might work after that so restarted it and tried to boot in to XP, same thing happened. After that I tried to do a system restore back to July, also didn't work.
I formatted it and tried to install Windows XP on it, it would get to the point where it says something like 'Installing Windows approx 37 mins left' and then it would shut down again. Tried it with Windows 7 and it shut itself down at the bit where it asks you to choose a language, region.
I thought it must have been a hardware issue at this point, so first of all I swapped in a PSU that I knew was working and it would still shut down at XP splash screen. Tried the same with the RAM and hard drive, all still failed to boot into Windows.
Could it be the motherboard or something else?
I appreciate all of your input, thanks.
When I boot up the PC it gets to the Windows XP splash screen and looks like its about to boot up but about 5 seconds into that it shuts itself off. I opened it up and I've never seen a PC so dusty in my whole life, so got the trusty old hoover out and sorted that - still wouldn't boot up.
I then went into safe mode, cleaned 1230 (yes you read that right, 1230) malware/viruses. Figured it might work after that so restarted it and tried to boot in to XP, same thing happened. After that I tried to do a system restore back to July, also didn't work.
I formatted it and tried to install Windows XP on it, it would get to the point where it says something like 'Installing Windows approx 37 mins left' and then it would shut down again. Tried it with Windows 7 and it shut itself down at the bit where it asks you to choose a language, region.
I thought it must have been a hardware issue at this point, so first of all I swapped in a PSU that I knew was working and it would still shut down at XP splash screen. Tried the same with the RAM and hard drive, all still failed to boot into Windows.
Could it be the motherboard or something else?
I appreciate all of your input, thanks.