Well there are various programs you can download to monitor the temp of your machine. SOme may be more reliable than others but then again, if you are sure that the colling systme in the machine is...

It could be a heating issue as well which might result in shuttin off, restarting at random....

Raj

well keep at it and you ll be where you wanna be mate. Just surf through the posts here on daniweb. a lot of things could be learnt from here man. I wish you all the best for the future.

Raj

well looking at what u posted it seems like the only way out of your problems at present. Well any other problems then you know where to look for help man. good Luck

Raj

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Under boot Device Priority it had...
1rst Boot Device - floppy
2nd - CDROM
3rd - hard disk
4rth - LAN
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This is what the problem is, you should have 1st device as the hard disk as thats...

if you can't get into bios then you would better off get your data backed up and then do a repair install from the xp pro disk. should not be a big problem. If you want to know about backing up the...

Maybe if you boot from an xp installaton disk and do a repair install that might solve the problem you are having.

Raj

it does sound like the powers upply issue to me as well but the decison to get a new one would have to be yours. If this computer does have a good purpose for yourself or your son then it ll be worth...

fully agreed there with ya good sir, just wanted to make sure he did it as he didnt mention anywhere that he looked into checking for overhating issues as that is what seemed to be his problem. So no...

do you really need help or are you just messing with us here repeating the posts from other poters..

Raj

might wanna give us some details on make and model, os, tech specs etc then tell us what exactly is happening as we cant just find the root of problem with just on estatement mate.

Raj

I m thinking its more of a heating issues that is making the system unstable, have u cleaned the fans of any dust deposited on the ends that could be the main cause as even running the test it starts...

Well you wont normally get warning for something like this, as it is quite old as well. Have you tried using different power supply cable to see if that makes it work.

It could be due to...

Dude just go to their website and get it from there.

Raj

I would recommend swapping cables and see if that works as suggested. Maybe just maybe the device has been disbaled from the device manager but i think that would have been ruled out by changin to...