Hi all,
At present I'm unsure whether or not this software related or hardware related, hope you guys can give me some advice. I'm dealing with a friend's computer which seems to have issues with booting up. Firstly I'll list the below specs.
Specs:
Intel Core Duo E6850
Asus P5KR P35 Motherboard
Super Talent DDR2 PC6400 2GB RAM
Geforce 7800 GTX
OCZ Powerstream 520 Watt PSU
Seagate 320GB Hard Drive
Windows XP SP2
Now as you can see, the system is fairly average so nothing fancy in other words.
Main Issue: It seems in most cases when booting up the pc, the PC will process through it's standard POST tests, then when loading into Windows, the screen goes black, the cursor in the top left hand corner just blinks rapidly, then from here the pc halts and does not go beyond that point.
In this case I'm required to turn the pc off to restart again. I would need to do the above process about 3-4 times before the system comes right then boots into the OS.
Now I have recenently reinstalled Windows XP again to his machine thinking this may have solved the issue, however waking up earlier this morning to power the pc back on, looks like the problem is still there.
At this stage, it seems like a hardware issue, so if it is, who would be the main culprit? At this stage, I simply cannot pin point whether it be the board, GPU, RAM etc. It's hard to decide as the pc does eventually come right after a few restarts.
Anybody able to help or give advice with this?
At present I'm unsure whether or not this software related or hardware related, hope you guys can give me some advice. I'm dealing with a friend's computer which seems to have issues with booting up. Firstly I'll list the below specs.
Specs:
Intel Core Duo E6850
Asus P5KR P35 Motherboard
Super Talent DDR2 PC6400 2GB RAM
Geforce 7800 GTX
OCZ Powerstream 520 Watt PSU
Seagate 320GB Hard Drive
Windows XP SP2
Now as you can see, the system is fairly average so nothing fancy in other words.
Main Issue: It seems in most cases when booting up the pc, the PC will process through it's standard POST tests, then when loading into Windows, the screen goes black, the cursor in the top left hand corner just blinks rapidly, then from here the pc halts and does not go beyond that point.
In this case I'm required to turn the pc off to restart again. I would need to do the above process about 3-4 times before the system comes right then boots into the OS.
Now I have recenently reinstalled Windows XP again to his machine thinking this may have solved the issue, however waking up earlier this morning to power the pc back on, looks like the problem is still there.
At this stage, it seems like a hardware issue, so if it is, who would be the main culprit? At this stage, I simply cannot pin point whether it be the board, GPU, RAM etc. It's hard to decide as the pc does eventually come right after a few restarts.
Anybody able to help or give advice with this?