Please help.
Background: A friend of mine turned on his computer and it would just keep reseting. I tried everything with bios; nothing worked. I figured his ram was screwed up, so I took some sticks out and played around with that with mixed outcomes (sometimes it would get to the option screen "load windows" or "load windows in safe mode) but beyond that it would still reset.
Long story short:
Replaced ram - same problem
Tried using MOBO GPU and Stand Alone - same problem
Replaced power supply - same problem
Replaced Mobo - same problem
Replaced CPU (Athlon x2 w/ Athlon x4) - same problem
The only original parts are the 2 DVD drives & Hard Drive.
The reason why I never suspected that the Hard Drive failed was b/c I tried booting from Knoppix and it didn't work. Could it be that it was an older version of Knoppix? How should I proceed?
Background: A friend of mine turned on his computer and it would just keep reseting. I tried everything with bios; nothing worked. I figured his ram was screwed up, so I took some sticks out and played around with that with mixed outcomes (sometimes it would get to the option screen "load windows" or "load windows in safe mode) but beyond that it would still reset.
Long story short:
Replaced ram - same problem
Tried using MOBO GPU and Stand Alone - same problem
Replaced power supply - same problem
Replaced Mobo - same problem
Replaced CPU (Athlon x2 w/ Athlon x4) - same problem
The only original parts are the 2 DVD drives & Hard Drive.
The reason why I never suspected that the Hard Drive failed was b/c I tried booting from Knoppix and it didn't work. Could it be that it was an older version of Knoppix? How should I proceed?
