Please help! PC won't boot...

[lukeflegg]

Hello,

 

Thank you for reading-

 

I've been having a nightmare with my self-built PC (Which has been reliable the last 4 years)

Basically I can't boot my PC fully into Windows (XP)...

 

First, I got graphic faults (including in the BIOS) and then lost my second monitor.

I tried a few things, including installing new drivers for chipset and graphics, asked around on some forums and people believed it was a dying graphics card. By this point I was just getting a black screen and not really loading Windows peroperly, though safe mode worked.

 

I replaced the 6800GT with my friend's 8500GT and it solved the computer worked for a while, though my other problem- the nVidia RAID0 is still split into to unaccessible drives.

 

 

Now, the computer will literally not boot. Even in safe mode.

It will start to load Windows but go black just before the Welcome screen.

In safe mode, I get the Logon screen but keyboard/mouse are unresponsive.

LATEST:

PC will not get past intial BIOS stage.

I get 5(?) beeps and a warning my chipset fan speed is too low (but I'm 99% sure this is because I replaced the rubbish original fan with a huge overkill incompatible one)

F1 to continue now doesn't get my past this...

 

 

Thanks : )

Luke

[Jelly Bean]

Luke is this the same computer your having issues with in your other thread?

 

Multiple threads on same issue or computer are not allowed.

 

If you are using a USB keyboard and mouse switch to a PS/2 set.

 

Load defaults in BIOS.

 

At which point does the post screen as in BIOS check freeze or hang?

[Plastic Nev]

Due to a slight misunderstanding, this topic will not continue here as it is being attended to in the Windows XP forums, so for now I will close this till further notice.