Have you managed to get into BIOS? you usually have to press DEL to enter it. Once you are in BIOS you need to put the cd drive at the top. Look at the left hand side of the screen, there is usually...

Could you please post a full system spec. Operating system, Ram ,Cpu etc..

Did you buy this computer whole or did you build it yourself?
When did this start to happen? was it after installing...

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Does your BIOS show your hard drive? or does the POST show your hard drive?

I don't...

If you have formatted the disk then there is no operating system on the disk. Causing the boot message you gave. You need to install an operating system in order to boot the machine.

- Hope this...

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I have a very old laptop toshiba 210 cs and I formatted it with ms-dos start but now he...

If windows keeps shuting down you could try booting into safemode with command prompt and try it from there.

Only the command line should be avaliable so you can type the highlighted text. But you...

Hello,

Well if a linux live cd works fine i would say the hardware could very well be working. Did you try safe mode or are you unable to get into safemode?

Did you apply any updates or install...

Have you tried a USB keyboard? It maybe worthwhile trying that.

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Try using chkdsk (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265) at command prompt. Try typing chkdsk volume:/r were volume is the drive letter, the /r should scan for bad sectors and fix them.
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Do you know if it has a recovery partiton? When the computer starts up does it display any options to boot to recovery partiton by pressing something like F10?

You should have or get the...

Does windows begin to load?
Does it say you have to insert a boot medium?

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If you have the installation CD you should be able to fix XP using the CD. Your other option is to reinstall XP. You maybe able to retrieve some files using linux incase you can't fix XP.

If it cuts out whilst using the CD then It probably is not just the HDD.

Is this a laptop or desktop?

Number 13. in you original post, Does it refuse to start if you don't unplug it first?

their is a difference between loading and installing. What I am asking is does the PC turn off whilst you are installing from CD Or after the installation begins from the hard drive?

Try a linux...

Are you able to enter the BIOS? try pressing del or F2 at start-up.

Does the computer restart or does it just turn off and stay off?

Do you know if you have a system restore partition or the...

Did the computer turn off whilst installing XP?
Perhaps there is a problem with the hard drive. Did you reinstall XP because of being unable to boot up?
Can you tell us what the BSOD error is?
...

Given up tryin to fix PC got new Mobo, RAM and CPU. Seems to be working for now.

What was the spec of your previous hard drive?

Hello I wonder if anyone can Identify my problem.

I left my PC on for about 20 mins and when I came back there was a black screen with a few discoloured pixels left.

I rebooted and now nothing...

What drivers are you missing? Have you tried this link (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-64283.html)?

Try and get a hold of a linux live CD if this works then the computer should work with a new hard drive.

Some one else had the same problem as you but they solved it by connecting the drive properly. However the other option was to get a new battery. You can read the post Here...

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Have you tried clicking on start, in the search box type disk management and click on create and format hard disk partitions.

- Hope this helps.

You could get a linux live CD and possibly transfer the files to an external source e.g external hard drive.

Did you try formatting via prompt?

The windows disk management should tell you the size of the drive and should be able to format from there.

can you eject the CD/DVD tray whilst it is turned on?
You could try a bootable cd/dvd.

No system beeps are anything?

How about your old hard drive does it say which type it is on that?

1. For the HP laptop does the screen not come on at all? if so try another monitor if possible.

2. For the dell does the message appear as windows is loading?

You could try stopping any startup programs running that aren't needed.

Go to run and type in msconfig press enter. Untick any process that you don't want to run and select ok and restart.

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some Memory modules are design too run together. If you would have mentioned earlier about the colour differences you problem would have been solved earlier but never mind...

Too run together the...

Try going into device manager and see if you noraml keyboard is listed.

There should be two keyboards. Also see if you can use you laptop keyboard by entering BIOS at boot up - Then exit BIOS...

Did you try swapping the sticks of ram?

If you install the OS on a new hard drive it shouldn't touch the other hard drives. If you are still not sure disconnect the other hard drive and reconnect after the OS is installed.

You could...

- PC Wizard 2008 (http://download.cnet.com/PC-Wizard-2008/3000-2094_4-10793737.html?tag=mncol) Try this for scanning the hardware.

- Product Key Finder...

If you have a Pro disk why not try it. Windows should install, you may have to get drivers for ethernet adapters, graphics card etc but you can use tools to detect them.

If you current OS is...

How many sticks of ram do you have? If you have more than one try swapping them about and try one at a time.

If there is no recovery partition and you can't or don't want to recover the system then I see no harm in installing XP Pro, you should be able to get most drivers as long as you know what drivers...

Have you tried another monitor or tested to see if the current one works?

Do you have a graphics card aswell as onboard graphics? If you have both try removing the graphics card and see if it...

Is there no recovery partiton?

If you can get the same version of windows installed you can use the key that came with the laptop.

For example if you have a friend with a XP home CD and it was...

RAM is your computer memory. it looks like this (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Memory_module_DDRAM_20-03-2006.jpg/180px-Memory_module_DDRAM_20-03-2006.jpg) for a desktop...