Load of problems

[Rackem]

Hi all

I've been away for a while working in Amsterdam and come home at the weekend and my pc and my sisters pc have both throne a wobbly!!

I went to turn my my pc on after it was fine when i left and it will not boot the 3 red lights stay on at the bottom of my mboard witch i believe means CPU:O

I think the i might need to test the CPU in another PC?

My sisters PC gets past the IRQ bit when booting and then says NTLDR is missing press any key to restart, i've loaded windows again over the top of the old one and i still get the same error message?

It will only boot if i do it from the CD?

Any ides?

 

[bennywidag]

I went to turn my my pc on after it was fine when i left and it will not boot the 3 red lights stay on at the bottom of my mboard witch i believe means CPU:O

I thought that means testing ram, check the motherboard manual, and/ or test with a single stick.

Horror weekend mate

 

[Rackem]

I thought that means testing ram, check the motherboard manual, and/ or test with a single stick.

Horror weekend mate

You could be right i will look in the Manuel when i get home tomorrow

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

deary me you have got some problems there. If you can remove the Chilly1 in the first instance and check for any obvious signs of condensation (pin rot etc).

Regards your sisters pc, that could possibly be memory related - hence the reinstall not working

 

[Rackem]

deary me you have got some problems there. If you can remove the Chilly1 in the first instance and check for any obvious signs of condensation (pin rot etc).

Regards your sisters pc, that could possibly be memory related - hence the reinstall not working

My sisters PC boots fine from the windows CD though so i did not think it could be hardware?

 

[Phil Stanbridge]

My sisters PC boots fine from the windows CD though so i did not think it could be hardware?

But to have the same error twice and once after a reinstallation? Sounds hardware to me, but could be wrong.

 

[maverik-sg1]

Sounds mobo/memory related, it takes a lot for the CPU to give up on you.

Reset the CMOS (power down, disconnect power lead for 5 mins, reset CMOS leave for 5 mins and reboot with just one stick of ram.

Mav

 

[Firelord]

Sisters PC could be that its not been set to boot from HDD. Had this before and its been because its not set to boot from HDD in the BIOS. Give it a check