Nemor

Everything is sat correctly, nothing wrong with thermal paste. Tried removing one stick of ram at a time, and replacing with new. Tried taking out the motherboard battery to reset the cmos. Nothing seems to work. On my old one (which I still have) after removing the battery it now works, only it won't ever detect the keyboard anymore :/ Sorry it's taken so long to get back to you, just been busy lately.

It makes little sense but alot of the time you can get away with it by disconnecting and reconnecting all the components within your pc, and like Danzil says, it's worth swapping out memory also. A quick refresh solves alot of problems in my experience. When you get these 2 options, if you start windows, do you get BSOD or only when you go to re-install Windows?

It's not hot, this much I do know. It's possible it's alot of electrical surges but I have it connected to a surge protector, so it shouldn't be that but still a possibility. I'll check the memory and paste tonight. Is it worth plugging the pc into a plug socket on it's own rather than in an adapter?

Are you trying to install the software from CD? If so, try downloading the latest software from a website. If it's just a problem detecting hardware, how is it connected? Parrallel or USB? If you're trying Parrallel and it's not detecting it, try via USB or vice versa if possible. It's also sometimes worth not using the baloon tip that appears bottom right of your desktop, and using "Add Hardware" wizard via Control Panel.

First of all I'd like to state that I have searched forums and stuff for this topic before, and have found them elsewhere but it seems to be a problem specific to each user. So I thought I'd post here see if someone could help me out. Ok, so nothing has changed that I can think of that could have caused this problem. I remember purchasing an old win98 game called Jagged Alliance 2, which I installed and played with no problems. Then I remember getting home from work one day, booting up the game and eventually the computer completely froze. It didn't reboot or log an error, just froze. I rebooted once more and the problem began. Either I would get as far as Desktop and it would freeze, or I wouldn't even get the initial beep from boot or see the BIOS screen. I have had this problem before on an old computer, which I had put in for repair. When I got it back, all was well until about 3 days later when it flared up again. I've tried a variety of things, first and foremost (when I had access to the desktop) I restored it back to a point 3 days before the first crash. It worked well again until I had turned it back on the next day to find out that I couldn't even get it to BIOS. I'm at wits end trying to figure this out... My system: Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Motherboard: Board: AOpen AX4SPB-UN Bus Clock: 133 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix/Award Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 09/06/2004 DDRAM: 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory Slot 'A0' has 512 MB (PC3200) Slot 'A2' has 512 MB (PC3200) Slot 'A4' is Empty Slot 'A3' is Empty Hard Disk Drive: Maxtor 6Y160P0 [Hard drive] (163.93 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y47XF2ME, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Central Processing Unit: 2.80 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4 8 kilobyte primary memory cache 512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS [Display adapter] Monitor: ACR AL1916W [Monitor] (19.1"vis, s/n 6380B4B34010, September 2006) 1280x720 32-bit 75hz Sound Card: MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device Realtek AC'97 Audio Sound Agent 2 for Audio Set – Connected to Philips M589 Gameport System Standard Game Port USB Audio Device (USB hook-up to PC, through Philips M589 Gameport System) Removable Media: Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive] TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U [CD-ROM drive] 3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive] MAXTOR STM305004EHCB01-RK 500GB 3.5" BASICS EXTERNAL HARD DISK DRIVE Network Adapter: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC USB: Apple iPod USB Device [Hard drive] (4.09 GB) -- drive 1 Saitek EVO Flightstick Philips Composite USB-Hifi Device USB Mass Storage Device USB Root Hub (5x) Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Regards.