Hi, my first post on this site so thanks in advance for any help. I have a problem with my pc resetting itself on boot up. I cannot think of a reason for this to start happening. It first happened 3 months ago and i ended up buying a new hard drive out of desperation to try something and it worked, well for 3 months and now exactly the same is happening. I just about get to see my graphics card details on the black screen and before it gets to cpu/memory etc, it resets itself i cannot enter safe mode or bios menu as it is over so quickly. It has been suggested my psu is dying do you agree or any other ideas are welcome.
specs as follows:
Evesham pc about 4 years old.
Motherboard : asustek a7a266
Graphics : nvidia geforce 2 mx400
Memory : 512 Mb Ram
Processor : amd athlon 1.4 ghz
Hard Drive : maxtor 80 gig ide
O/S : windows xp

Any help is greatl appreciated. Kev.

Do you have a CD drive?
Did you install XP via a CD?
If so, put the XP CD into the CD drive and bootup from the CD, if you can.

Hi, i have tried installing via cd but it barely gives you time to open cd/dvd drive as when it resets the drive closes. I did manage to get xp cd in once but it would not boot, it does not get as far as "press any key to boot from cd" and it resets.. Very frustrating. Any other ideas welcome.

Anyone else have any ideas on this topic??

Sorry for the late response. Do you still need assistance with this problem?

I am having the exact same problem, but I haven't made a new thread on it.

I thought a new power supply would help, but it didn't change anything.


-TNC