Can you boot into safe mode?

1. Have you checked your Power Options? It may be hibernating.

start/control panel/power options

2. Check your cpu temperature and cpu fan speed in the BIOS. It may be over heating.

If...

The motherboard is not detecting your floppy drive.

It may be a bad cable, dead floppy drive or dead floppy disc controller on the motherboard.

If you don't know what you're doing in there get...

Without the drivers you should get basic vga graphics. Did you clear the CMOS jumper? Did the previous owner use a PCI-e card for graphics?

The resources for your board are easy enough to find....

Egg ried rice, with stir-fried king prawns and veges, an alpro strawberry yogurt style soya dessert and filtered water.

If you have access to another PC with cd burning capabilities download memtest86, burn to cd and run the test. Make sure your BIOS is set to boot from the CD first.

http://www.memtest.org/

If...

Check the RAM.

/me loves the rain...

Organic macaroni cheese, steamed brocolli and carrots, redbush tea.

Not bad when you consider that you could drop the entire landmass of the UK into texas and lose it.

For such a small country we have a lot of clout.

More operating systems than you've had hot dinners.