Weird PC troubles

Zodar

Zodar

Zodar

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Okay, so decided to have a second look at my friends PC before ordering, and tried taking out the CMOS battery and putting it back. Voila, now it suddenly boots to windows - however all I get in windows is a blank screen (Due to my friend clicking on some dodgy popup apparently making her windows not work).

Ok, I think, I'll just have to enter safe mode now and try to clear up the harddrive and maybe she can put off buying new kit for a little while longer then - but here's the problem. It boots fine to windows (alas windows is currently useless, completely corrupted.), but as soon as I try to enter the BIOS or just get the boot menu up the screen goes blank. Nothing.

At the moment I'm feeling like I'm in way over my head (I'm more of a gamer that knows the basics to make his own builds normally), so does anyone have any ideas if this is solveable or if the motherboard has had it and it's new kit time?
 
Ignore thread until further notice, think I've sorted it. Remembered earlier troubles with resolutions I've had (Running it on her LCD tv). Tried plugging it into a good old fashioned dedicated PC TFT, can see bios now! Now just to repair her windows, lots of files missing :( She must have gotten something quite dodgy on there.

Also, I will in the future NEVER buy a cheap PSU. Seriously, the one she's got keep having spasms after I turn the PC off on the power switch, making a noise every second or so and you can see the fan in it have a twitch too, as well as a grey image coming up on the monitor in phase with the electrical PSU twitching.

Edit: PSU kind of worrying, any chance of damage to components when it makes a clock "tick-tick-tick" noise at about 1 tick per second? Happens when I turn PC off on power switch, have to turn the PSU power switch off to make it stop.
 
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Just noted components are very very hot as well, including hard drive, graphics card, CPU... Especially concerned about harddrive temp, as they normally don't run that hot. Put hard drive in another PC to extract vital files before formating for fresh XP install, it runs silky cool.

Perhaps time to order another PSU (high quality) first and and see if the rest of the components will run off that before getting all new components? Really worried about the temperatures, hope there hasn't been any damage, especially to the 9800GT since that would be a lovely little card in a new, better system.
 
Changing the PSU to a higher quality one should solve most problems that is happening

monitor the temps after the PSU has being changed and do bit of cable management
 
Anyone got a suggestion for a good power supply? The cheaper the better, but it has to be good quality first, i.e no £20 pound rubbish. Needs to be 500W minimum I should think.
 
The system is a AMD 64 X2 3800+
2 harddrives, normal sata 7200rpm fare.
1 GB ddr2
Geforce 9800GT

However, looking to upgrade mobo, cpu and ram within 1-2 years at least even if it works out now and we can put the upgrade off a bit, so I'd rather get a higher rated PSU right now than having to buy another one with the next upgrade.
 
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