ok so everyone who hasnt replied has no idea on this issue of mine ........ guess ill trash the system then :( cause aint nothing else to do about it obviously .... guess it was worth the try but...

i had already checked the memory a while back and i did take the psu and exchanged it with another one yet... the system still locks up

if anyone else can think of an idea it would be a great...

2-3 yrs not extremely old i can get the one originally designed for this system and give it a try and hope that will work um also what do you mean by rails and capacitors are you talking about on the...

its got :
cd-rom 52x
intel p4 641 cpu
Ultra 1024MB PC3200 DDR 400MHz Memory
Golden Orb 2 cpu fan
radeon 9200 videocard
belkin wireless network card
seagate 250 gb sata harddrive
floppy drive...

Nope wouldnt be the battery cause most laptops dont have a battery in them anymore . its gotta be a configurational setting of some sort but i cant give out anymore help than that sorry man

i like the idea. :D

also try a boot disk of partition magic that way you can boot upto partition magic and change the drive parameters to how you want it using dos.

that might do the trick that sittas87 is thinking...

another question is is it giving off blue screens if so post what the blue screen is saying i could find out possible what the coding means by looking it up.

(this is only if you dont have blue...

omg guys i feel stupid it wasnt really all that actually i didnt have the power supply turned on my bad guys thought i did have it on but i did not have it on now my comp is starting up at least...

also pentium fours are built in to completely wipe out there wattage going to it if it finds an error

aint getting anything from post intel pentium 4 cpu 3.2 ghz 1 gig stick just added
it was able to before but now it wont could it be the thermal grease that i put on to the cpu could i have not put...

get off the bickering you 2 first things first get a power supply tester first test the power supply then reply back with information if it is the power supply you should easily be able to find out .

my thought is that the option might be disabled in bios maybe dont know if there is an option

if it is a virus try trend micro house call

you could also try restoring it that takes time tho

quick thing to do go get a power supply tester most of the time there around 15-20 bucks so nothing major.

that is the only way to find out if its the power supply or not

if you dont wanna pay...

first question is have you exchanged any parts out of it for other parts what parts were they and what were there specification. old milestone rule get parts that are compatable. also something could...

possibly you could use a air compressor to blow it thru but i dont know what kinda damage that would do anyone else for air compressor's

altho i am not sure about that i would rather have some one else confirm what i read from your post

your ipod can sometimes over write your C: log and windows will wanna bootup from your ipod seen it happen with my own eyes with my laptop just disconnect your ipod and reboot

altho you might...