Trouble shooting

wupwup · 22 Mar 2009 at 22:40

My grandads pc just broke so he gave it to me. I slaved the harddrive to get the info off and thats fine. But it wont boot up. It turns on, powers up, gets to the XP loading screen and turns off. There is a clicking noise and it goes off. I think it could be the pcu or ram but i have no experence. What do you think? Are there any self diagnosis websites ormtroubleshooting guides for future? Thanks

caithomas44 · 22 Mar 2009 at 22:42

you can try MEMTEST for ram and try a different PSU to see if the old one is dead (borrow one from another machine).

I would suggest running FIXBOOT from the recovery console, otherwise use the recovery console to restore it. if that doesn't work then reload it.

wupwup · 22 Mar 2009 at 22:49

Well programs are out because it wont boot up. I was thinking more about lists of symtoms on the internet.

RJC · 22 Mar 2009 at 22:59

Memtest can run from a bootable disc or remove one stick of ram.
Can you test components in another machine.

caithomas44 · 22 Mar 2009 at 23:05

Memtest runs from a flash drive.

Puppetmaster · 22 Mar 2009 at 23:58

wupwup said:
My grandads pc just broke so he gave it to me. I slaved the harddrive to get the info off and thats fine. But it wont boot up. It turns on, powers up, gets to the XP loading screen and turns off. There is a clicking noise and it goes off. I think it could be the pcu or ram but i have no experence. What do you think? Are there any self diagnosis websites ormtroubleshooting guides for future? Thanks

Can you try to work out when the clicking noise is coming from? Sounds like your hdd might be failing.

wupwup · 23 Mar 2009 at 22:55

I managed to get data off the harddrive so i dont think is that. I was
Wondering about psu but wont be able to test for a while. And dose mem test run in bios or something then? Thanks