Hi there,
Been out of the loop on pc's for a while since i broke the bank on my first ever made pc so a bit rusty on attmepting to fix it
. Hence ive come to you lot for help 
Anyway my problem happened this morning when i turned the pc on, i left it and went out to go for my run but when i got back all i found was that the pc kept restarting itself as soon as it had got onto the windows xp loading screen, about 4 of the loading bars passed before it restarts itself.
Since at least the end of december i have done absolutely no tampering with the pc and it has been working perfectly (not overclocked at all).
My only slight concern is that about 3 weeks ago i had a power cut during a macafee update, since then it has attempted to update but comes up with an error. During this error a clicking noise can be heard which, so ive heard could mean my hard drive is attempting to destructively deplatter itself. However it is only during the update, which ive never bothered to sort out does this clicking noise appear. Never at any other time and appears to function fine.
I was going to attempt a format but am really reluctant to do it because on my fm2007 game im in 2014 with colchester and have the likes of david villa and lionel messi in my team (yes very sad i know but am proud of it
) Also i have pictures etc and my music collection that is not backed up, it would be anightmare trying to replace all this. Oh and erm theres some work thats not backed up 
, not as important as my fm game though lol
My specs are in my signiture (i hope, any overclocking in the signature was put to default in december). Have tried to explain the problem as best as possible but if im missing anything please tell me and ill reply asap,
Thank you very much in advance,
Andy
Been out of the loop on pc's for a while since i broke the bank on my first ever made pc so a bit rusty on attmepting to fix it
. Hence ive come to you lot for help Anyway my problem happened this morning when i turned the pc on, i left it and went out to go for my run but when i got back all i found was that the pc kept restarting itself as soon as it had got onto the windows xp loading screen, about 4 of the loading bars passed before it restarts itself.
Since at least the end of december i have done absolutely no tampering with the pc and it has been working perfectly (not overclocked at all).
My only slight concern is that about 3 weeks ago i had a power cut during a macafee update, since then it has attempted to update but comes up with an error. During this error a clicking noise can be heard which, so ive heard could mean my hard drive is attempting to destructively deplatter itself. However it is only during the update, which ive never bothered to sort out does this clicking noise appear. Never at any other time and appears to function fine.
I was going to attempt a format but am really reluctant to do it because on my fm2007 game im in 2014 with colchester and have the likes of david villa and lionel messi in my team (yes very sad i know but am proud of it
) Also i have pictures etc and my music collection that is not backed up, it would be anightmare trying to replace all this. Oh and erm theres some work thats not backed up , not as important as my fm game though lolMy specs are in my signiture (i hope, any overclocking in the signature was put to default in december). Have tried to explain the problem as best as possible but if im missing anything please tell me and ill reply asap,
Thank you very much in advance,
Andy
... not to mention Messi! Barcelona, Colchester, Barcalona, Colchester??? Must have been a nightmare decision for him 
. I dont want to quite resort to a full format yet so were wondering if you of you kind people had any suggestions.