PC Problems

[veaney]

Hi,

Having major pc problems at the mo.

Computer kept freezing, wouldn't even boot up in safe mode. Tried formatting the drive, it would freeze during install.

So i unplugged the hard drive and it didn't freeze as it said 'no hard drive installed' which was fair enough.

So i went and got a new hard drive and started re installing windows and it froze again!?!

I've swapped the memory chip over to a different DIMM slot and it didn't make much of a difference.

Any ideas ladies/gents?

 

[Final Maxim]

has it suddenly started doing this?

have you installed anything recently?

ide try some ram from someone to eliminate a dodgy ram stick

 

[veaney]

it's not my PC, its my father in laws.

I will have to try and get hold of a new ram stick
but i thought if it was the RAM then it would bleep during P.O.S.T

 

[Rasclart]

Sounds like duff memory. Swapping to a new slot wont solve the problem if it is. Could be memory, possibly CPU but not likely. I would however check the capacitors on the motherboard and make sure they are not leaking. The caps should be flat on top, if they are bulging or leaking a brownish fluid then your board is fecked. Last on my list would be PSU

 

[Rasclart]

it's not my PC, its my father in laws.

I will have to try and get hold of a new ram stick
but i thought if it was the RAM then it would bleep during P.O.S.T

Nope only if it was completely knackered. It is possible to have faulty memory and still boot

 

[veaney]

ah thank you very much - i should know that! d'oh

 

[MrAtego]

I had a similar problem with one of mine, solution for me was to take off cpu heat sink, regrease seal between heat sink and cpu then reseat.