What is the problem?

[The Pat]

My PC has started to become slow to boot up, when you turn it on the fans turn on fine, but doesn't boot for normally about 7 or so seconds (Closer to 15 this time). Earlier this month (and about 6 months ago) it was having problems where it wouldn't boot at all. The fans were going, the lights were on, I could open the disk drive. This happens occasionally, but opening the side and pushing the connections and it will work again, but on both of these occasions it didn't work and only started doing so again after about 3 days and unplugging the connection between PSU and the motherboard.

It also has a problem with being left idle, after about 45 minutes or so of not being used it will crash. However, it has no problem if being used.

It is also having problems installing from discs, not completing installs and giving the message Not a valid win32 application. Sometimes though, after an install it will go to a blue screen (no writing) and restart. Just a moment ago trying to install FM07, I put the disk it and it fails to auto-run. So going through browse and selecting the setup.exe I was given the message

Only part of a ReadProcessMemory or WriteProcessMemory request was completed

Is it a simple overheating problem? Although, I have three fans (front, back and on the CPU) whilst running at stock, so it shouldn't be overheating.

 

[The Pat]

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[The Pat]

I'd backup anything of importance 1st job.
Then run disk cleanup, check for errors (inc unused space) then try a defrag.
It can't be overheating booting from cold.

Already done all of those things.

sounds like the OS, tried a reinstall?

That's going to be fun trying to find the disc.

 

[The Pat]

Have you tried powering it up with no USB devices plugged in ?

Just done that and there is no difference, except for a screen coming up saying no keyboard found, before carrying on as normal.