PC not booting up.

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My pc won't boot up. I had many problems after moving it from one room
to another. So I formatted and re-installed windows XP Pro. It ran ok
for a day. Now it won't even boot up. I have had it all to pieces,
checked all leads and cable. Set bios to default, reset cmos, taken
out all but one stick of memory, tried memory in differnet slots,
taken out all pci agp cards, and disconnected all but mouse and
keyboard.

It finds the hard drive then it sounds like the hard drive is powering
down and it restats and does that over and over again. After about 10
trys it will re-boot, but then I get the BSD and have no option to
restart. It won't even get as far to let me boot into safe mode. The
hard drive is a 40GB Maxtor, which is only 18mths old.

Any ideas
Kyla

 

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On 15 Nov 2004 11:37:28 -0800, duetuk@hotmail.com (Kyla)
wrote:

>My pc won't boot up. I had many problems after moving it from one room
>to another. So I formatted and re-installed windows XP Pro. It ran ok
>for a day. Now it won't even boot up. I have had it all to pieces,
>checked all leads and cable. Set bios to default, reset cmos, taken
>out all but one stick of memory, tried memory in differnet slots,
>taken out all pci agp cards, and disconnected all but mouse and
>keyboard.
>
>It finds the hard drive then it sounds like the hard drive is powering
>down and it restats and does that over and over again. After about 10
>trys it will re-boot, but then I get the BSD and have no option to
>restart. It won't even get as far to let me boot into safe mode. The
>hard drive is a 40GB Maxtor, which is only 18mths old.
>
>Any ideas
>Kyla

Run the hard drive manufacturer's utilities on it.
Inspect the power cable, it's connector contacts connecting
to the drive. That the drive is "powering down and it
restarts" sounds like a failing of the drive itself by
either internal failure or power to it.

Your problem revolves entirely around a system that does
always POST, does always find the boot device (HDD) but then
fails booting windows, correct? Was there anything more
involved in "moving" it than you mentioned? Is it possible
it's now on an AC circuit that is overloaded or otherwise
compromised by other electrical applicance on that circuit?

When you get the BSOD, what does it say?