Cube Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 OK, recently it's been acting slow, freezing for seconds at points, and now every now and then it just totally crashes. A few times when the PC loads up (I have both XP and Vista installed ATM), before the OS selection the following sometimes happens: - A screen appears (standard black/white text thing), it mentions my Ethernet network card, tells me my MAc adress, tells me that "No boot filename recieved" and that "operating system not found". Something that sounds odd on the initial startup screen: - System BIOS shadowed - Video BIOS shadowed The problem seems to be getting worse, and it doesn't even want to consider loading my XP reinstall disk (even though my BIOS has boot from CD first). Does anyone have any ideas on whats happening? edit: System Specs: - OS: Windows XP and Vista - Processor: AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8GHz - 512MB DDR RAM - ATi Radeon X700 PCi-e 128MB - 80GB HDD (+ 320GB External HDD) - Totally broken broadcom Wireless Network Card edit2: My theory is the heat it produces has fucked up some of its innards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caris Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Does it do this on both Xp and Vista? Make sure its not a software issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted March 11, 2007 Author Share Posted March 11, 2007 Does it do this on both Xp and Vista? Make sure its not a software issue. The crashing happens on both, and the bootup faults happen before it starts loading either of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirtynine. Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 You could try using a linux live boot disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted March 11, 2007 Author Share Posted March 11, 2007 OK....the crashing/tempoary freezing seems to have stopped since I moved to IE7. (FireFox was the only thing that was open for every single crash/freeze). Odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 My bet is on the MotherBoard. Edit: Oh, wait, its a laptop. Anyway, I still think its the motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 My bet is on the MotherBoard. Edit: Oh, wait, its a laptop. Anyway, I still think its the motherboard. Nope, the problem was FireFox. I don't know why, tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 Having this problem again - doesn't seem to be related to any program in particular this tine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian DX Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Try entering BIOS setup and change the boot order. (try disabling everything and put HDD (harddisk) as the main (1) boot device.) And when you get the chance, backup everything (important) you've got and format the thing and install XP or Vista, you don't need both at the same time Oh and, if that network card is removable, try removing it.. My laptop wouldn't get to the logon screen for windows when I had my wireless network card (which was broken) inserted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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