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Tells me he thought it was overheating for the last week and so he was using the power button to shut it down. Then he says the northbridge fan wasn't spinning so he took it out and WD40'd it, stuck it back in.
I get it, the machine was in a loop - booting up, then about half way through the Loading Windows XP would just reboot. Neither Last Known nor Safe Mode would boot.
OK, I stuck in the CD and ran a chkdsk on it. Got it repaired and booting back into windows. Played with it last night, seemed to be good, rebooted several times, no problem.
This morning, it would not wake from sleep mode. Had to hit the power button and reboot. Wouldn't boot. Turns on for about 5 seconds, doesn't even get to the bios screen and shuts down.
Unplugged it from main power for 30 seconds, plugged it in and booted up but with a processor error on the loading screen - went in and verified the bios info - and booted on into windows.
Re-boot one more time and it's back to turning on, never makes the loading screen and just shuts down.
It's a P4 in an Abit IC7 Max3, ATI X800XL and 512x2 and a Thermaltake PS.
Any ideas where to begin besides resetting CMOS and the RAM?
I get it, the machine was in a loop - booting up, then about half way through the Loading Windows XP would just reboot. Neither Last Known nor Safe Mode would boot.
OK, I stuck in the CD and ran a chkdsk on it. Got it repaired and booting back into windows. Played with it last night, seemed to be good, rebooted several times, no problem.
This morning, it would not wake from sleep mode. Had to hit the power button and reboot. Wouldn't boot. Turns on for about 5 seconds, doesn't even get to the bios screen and shuts down.
Unplugged it from main power for 30 seconds, plugged it in and booted up but with a processor error on the loading screen - went in and verified the bios info - and booted on into windows.
Re-boot one more time and it's back to turning on, never makes the loading screen and just shuts down.
It's a P4 in an Abit IC7 Max3, ATI X800XL and 512x2 and a Thermaltake PS.
Any ideas where to begin besides resetting CMOS and the RAM?