Hello,
A PC that I built many months ago for a family member and has worked fine up until now, has the following new problem, which occurred at the peak of a recent heat wave:
- Most of the time, it will successfully go through the entire "post" process, but then hang at the bottom of that screen, right before the boot process. No other messages at all. This happens when I boot to Floppy, CD-ROM or Hard Drive (and I've tried that while only having that device installed and removing the other two).
- Once in a while (like 1 out of 20 times), the boot process will start, but then hang partway into the process. This has occurred twice during Windows boot, with the PC hanging with just the wallpaper showing, but also once during bootup from CD-ROM (partway into the Maxtor diag program startup on that bootable CD). However, note that most of the time, the boot process doesn't even start.
My guess is either the power supply or else the processor were partially damaged due to overheating during the heat wave. I've also considered the IDE chip, but I'm under the impression that the floppy boot doesn't use that, so if it were the IDE chip, then it would boot fine from the floppy.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? If it does, it might help me to only buy the part that was most likely to be the damaged one.
PS I've also tried clearing the CMOS and setting to the "failsafe" BIOS settings, but that didn't help (and it seems unlikely that that would be affected by overheating).
Thanks!
A PC that I built many months ago for a family member and has worked fine up until now, has the following new problem, which occurred at the peak of a recent heat wave:
- Most of the time, it will successfully go through the entire "post" process, but then hang at the bottom of that screen, right before the boot process. No other messages at all. This happens when I boot to Floppy, CD-ROM or Hard Drive (and I've tried that while only having that device installed and removing the other two).
- Once in a while (like 1 out of 20 times), the boot process will start, but then hang partway into the process. This has occurred twice during Windows boot, with the PC hanging with just the wallpaper showing, but also once during bootup from CD-ROM (partway into the Maxtor diag program startup on that bootable CD). However, note that most of the time, the boot process doesn't even start.
My guess is either the power supply or else the processor were partially damaged due to overheating during the heat wave. I've also considered the IDE chip, but I'm under the impression that the floppy boot doesn't use that, so if it were the IDE chip, then it would boot fine from the floppy.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? If it does, it might help me to only buy the part that was most likely to be the damaged one.
PS I've also tried clearing the CMOS and setting to the "failsafe" BIOS settings, but that didn't help (and it seems unlikely that that would be affected by overheating).
Thanks!
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