Right i posted this up the other day, now i have had a look at it thought id make another thread with what i have found out.
It is a pre-built computer from a pc shop...has the OS preinstalled by the manufactorer, so to format you just press F11 on startup and this does that for you etc. Since bought its had the RAM upgraded, another DVD-RW put in, another HDD and an ATI9800pro with cooler in it
It used to reset itself a bit, but apparantly my sister knocked it with her knee the other day and since then it wouldn't load up past the windows xp screen. Aparantly SOMEONE told my sister to press F11 and do some other stuff to "fix" it, which hasnt worked...at all, she got into the bios somehow because my mum today said "oh your sister has been on that screen before"
Now it doesnt even load into windows, it just automatically tries to do the reinstall of the OS, goes to the bluey/green screen and thats it...the cursor moves and the egg timer keeps coming up and thats you lot, so i cant boot into safe mode, cant get into windows what so ever. Sometimes the monitor doesnt even come on, and sometimes when you press the power button the DVD drive ejects
Checked all cabling etc had a clean up as there was a fair bit of dust in there and went into BIOS, the system temp was around 30* and the CPU was about 50*, im not sure what these are supposed to be, but to me that seemed quite high, all fans were working fine though. Went into the event logand there were a few from a few years ago, then some form 2007, then it jumped back to 2003 again, as though BIOS had been reset to when we bought the computer had 3 different errors; CMON config error, CMON checksum error and CMON battery failure.
To be honest im stumped, never really had anything like this happen before, its not as though i can just put the windows disk in and start from scratch because of the way the OS is preinstalled and everything
ANY ideas what so ever?
I reckon it might have to be taken back to the shop and have the HDD with the OS on re-done???
Sorry for such a long post, just thought id give as much detail as possible, as i dont go across to my parents very much anymore, thanks for reading and cheers in advance for any ideas on how to make the piece of junk work again
It is a pre-built computer from a pc shop...has the OS preinstalled by the manufactorer, so to format you just press F11 on startup and this does that for you etc. Since bought its had the RAM upgraded, another DVD-RW put in, another HDD and an ATI9800pro with cooler in it
It used to reset itself a bit, but apparantly my sister knocked it with her knee the other day and since then it wouldn't load up past the windows xp screen. Aparantly SOMEONE told my sister to press F11 and do some other stuff to "fix" it, which hasnt worked...at all, she got into the bios somehow because my mum today said "oh your sister has been on that screen before"
Now it doesnt even load into windows, it just automatically tries to do the reinstall of the OS, goes to the bluey/green screen and thats it...the cursor moves and the egg timer keeps coming up and thats you lot, so i cant boot into safe mode, cant get into windows what so ever. Sometimes the monitor doesnt even come on, and sometimes when you press the power button the DVD drive ejects
Checked all cabling etc had a clean up as there was a fair bit of dust in there and went into BIOS, the system temp was around 30* and the CPU was about 50*, im not sure what these are supposed to be, but to me that seemed quite high, all fans were working fine though. Went into the event logand there were a few from a few years ago, then some form 2007, then it jumped back to 2003 again, as though BIOS had been reset to when we bought the computer
had 3 different errors; CMON config error, CMON checksum error and CMON battery failure.To be honest im stumped, never really had anything like this happen before, its not as though i can just put the windows disk in and start from scratch because of the way the OS is preinstalled and everything
ANY ideas what so ever?
I reckon it might have to be taken back to the shop and have the HDD with the OS on re-done???
Sorry for such a long post, just thought id give as much detail as possible, as i dont go across to my parents very much anymore, thanks for reading and cheers in advance for any ideas on how to make the piece of junk work again
