Hello everyone,
My parents pc had failed about amonth ago andhavespenta lot of my time trying to fix it for them.
I ended up formatting the hard drive and attempting to reinstall windows xp. Everytime i tried to run the install it would fail reading the drivers.cab file from the XP cd.
After investigating further i had been advised to update the BIOS and to remove the printer cable from the pc.
The installation performed reasonable but during the installation there were several files which it would not copy during the main installation.
After some perserverence i managed to get xpinstalled. And this was running fine.
The pc is an AMD 1800 cpu and a motherboard with built in sound, lan, usb, graphics, and modem.
I noticed on the BIOS settings that the speedwassetat 1150MHz and not the 1800+ it was set at before anyofthese problems reared there heads. After changing the BIOS settings to the 1800+ the pc would fail to boot in to windows and would just keep restarting.
I then changed the speed on the BIOS back to the 1150MHz the pc now worked fine for a day or so. but oncea is now failing to boot in to windows.
I have even tried to install Windows 98 and this operating system just hangs when at the 1800+ speed in the BIOS. As far as temperature settings are concerned theCPU seems to be running at 42 and that isthe highest i have seen it running at. The RAM installed in the pc is Kingston and was supplied with the pc.
The pc has a CD-ROM, a CD-RW drive installed and is running 2 hard drives. on each ide channel i am running a HD and a CD drive. And the power supply is a 300w power supply. All fans start and the CPU heatsink is clean and free from dust.
Does anyone have any ideas of whatis going on. I believe the problem is a hardware one ratherthan a software one.