Desktop Computer wont boot up

aardvaak

Can someone please help me?

My Desktop Computer wont boot up, it is running XP Pro.

On turning on the bios screen comes up followed by the XP screen trying to load then a page says start windows as normal or safe mode after hitting enter a screen comes up saying no imput signal the starts over again.
It wont also start in safe mode.

closed

Did anything unusual happen before this started? Did you shut it down properly? Does safe mode with command prompt work?

wakandem

The 'no input signal' is the monitor telling you the pc has turned off. If windows is set to reboot on error this may be what is happening. It could also be thermal cut out on a critical componant, such as cpu.
If you have a winxp disk then boot up on that and if all ok then there may be a critical error causing the reboot. The auto reboot can be turned off but you need the system working to change this. You may have to reinstall winxp but that would be last resort

aardvaak

closed wrote: »

Did anything unusual happen before this started? Did you shut it down properly? Does safe mode with command prompt work?

No nothing unusal closed in correct manner and no safe mode with command prompt work does'nt appear tpo work.

aardvaak

wakandem wrote: »

The 'no input signal' is the monitor telling you the pc has turned off. If windows is set to reboot on error this may be what is happening. It could also be thermal cut out on a critical componant, such as cpu.
If you have a winxp disk then boot up on that and if all ok then there may be a critical error causing the reboot. The auto reboot can be turned off but you need the system working to change this. You may have to reinstall winxp but that would be last resort

I can get into the bios - could it be a graphics card problem?

aardvaak

wakandem wrote: »

The 'no input signal' is the monitor telling you the pc has turned off. If windows is set to reboot on error this may be what is happening. It could also be thermal cut out on a critical componant, such as cpu.
If you have a winxp disk then boot up on that and if all ok then there may be a critical error causing the reboot. The auto reboot can be turned off but you need the system working to change this. You may have to reinstall winxp but that would be last resort

On selecting any of the safe mode option a page full of message saying:-

Multi (0) disc (0) partition\windows system 32\drivers\ then a load of diferent letters

wakandem

Have you tried booting off a cd disk? try ubuntu cd if you dont have windows xp cd
I doubt a graphics problem, but if it is a hardware problem then booting off a cd will at least tell you iff it is the hard drive or some other componant. If it is an error on the hard drive then you will need to reinstall windows xp.

wakandem

If it is an error on the hard drive you may be able to fix it by running chkdsk (check disk)
from the windows xp cd disk
http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=5097