My computer locks up and won't boot. What do I do?

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responce to mike.....you need to put sum more ram into you system then it will boot fine

my pc is sick.please help .
i turn on my pc and i get nothing no screen , the fans go round, the hard drive goes round becaues you can hear it , i cant get into the bios and the processer is stone cold.
please can you help me ? martin

There are so many possibilities, but without seeing the machine, it's hard to say. Just about any peice of hardware could be at fault. In your shoes, I'd take it into a technician.

Hi,
I was on a particularly demanding game when there was a sudden power-cut at 11pm. Afterwards, when i switched the pc on, All that happened was the cd-drive span and the screen stayed blank. I thought maybe the power-cut seriously damaged some of my hardware (Is this likely?).
So i kept trying to boot up. I kept trying and after about 15 minutes it somehow recognised the card and windows booted up...hurray! Everything was normal, and i ran system checks and everything seemed to be ok. I went to bed, reassured by the success.
Then, the next day, when i joyfully switched on the pc, the same old frustrating blank screen problem happened again. I swapped the video card for one of my old ones...and that only worked after about half an hour.
I really really need to know what kind of problem this is...
The most important question is: Is this a mainboard problem?
Thanks in advance for any help.

My PC:
GA-7ZM Mainboard
AMD Athlon 1Ghz processor
Ati Radeon Celestica Gold Edition SE 128mb
2 x 256MB PC100/133 RAM
1 x 128MB PC100/133 RAM = 655MB RAM in total
Built-in RAM

hey,

i was in the middle of something and my computer froze and then i could do nothing so i tried to restart, but now it does not restart, the fan and i think the hardrive is wroking, so can u tell me what could be wrong the motherboard or something else, please try to help me out because this is the only computer i have

PLEASE HELP, if u can

Thanks

There's no way to diagnose that from here. It could be just about anything. If the article you commented on didn't help, then I suggest you take the computer into a repair technician.

I have about the same problem as Joe.

Sometimes I managed to boot the computer but but not others.

I don't either even come to the post screen.

I've tried to trouble shoot, I also tried with replacing the graphic card, how ever it didn't do any difference.

All the fans and harddrives seems to get started
(I get a green power light and red hdd light) on the front of where the start button is which seem to indicate something is starting) and cpu starts (I've checked inside) but the monitor refused to start and I don't think the windows started to load either.

I have found a way to start the computer and that is to turn everything off, also the monitor. Do a clear C-mos and then put everything on and then re-boot, then it starts...

Unfortunately I have no money to buy spare parts for a long time now and I would be very grateful for any advice.

The motherboard doesn't have give any bios beeps when trying to boot at all, it just goes black.

But when I manage to start it it stays started and I have no problems ones it have started.

When I get money in some 2 months I'll try to replace the power supply and if that doesn't work, the monitor.
My monitor is actually some 10 years old so I wouldn't be surprised if it was that !

But I still really would like some input if anyone could help me .. please

I have a AMD64 3000+ CPU
a ASUS K8V-X mo-bo
Ati Radeon 128mb graphics
256 ddr400

/maria

I been using windows NT4 sp6 for years on cad program, computer is probably 9 years old, never had a problem but now it locks up occasionally on all programs(pdf's,opening jpeg,websites,cad program). I have to use the reset button, control alt del is also dead at that time. I've run latest Mcafee and hijack this but everything is evidently okay. Any suggestions?

If nothing's changed, I'd be looking at hardware on a 9 year old computer - perhaps a dying power supply, memory that's failing, who knows. I suspect it'll be hard to get replacement parts - or a tech who'll look at it, but that's the direction I'd head.

Hey Leo,

I have a pretty solid understanding of computers. About every 6 months to a year I reformat and just wipe the slate clean. I recently did this, reinstalled all the drivers, updated my OS to XP (had 98 and then the XP upgrade disk) then simply started to intsall my programs etc. I come in the morning to find my computer is off, I go to turn it on and as it boots up I get a series of "beeps" followed by the computer turning itself off. I hvae no clue why the computer wont' even boot into bios or windows and am looking for some ideas on where to start. Any advice would be greatly appricated.
Steven

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