Troubleshooting advice

[L8ed]

I have an AMD 950Mhz w/40Gig HD, 128 Mhz RAM and WindowsXP that started to get flaky several weeks ago. It began by giving me OS runtime errors. I tried to reinstall XP, got most of the way through and the machine would blink off - restart and pick up installing at the stage prior to shutting down. It did this several times and got progressively worse. Finally it would no longer boot nor reinstall. At that point I didn't know if it was the HD, motherboard or processor. I pulled the hd, installed it as a secondary in another working machine, reformatted and then reloaded XP. I tried to put it back in the same machine, but all it does now is power up to a green light, but doesn't even try to POST. What is the best way to determine if it is the systems board or processor that has gone bad? Or, am I jumping the gun and missing something?

Any help would be much appreciated. As usual, thanks.


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[Slogun]

Before you look for hardware failure I would clear the cmos, make sure video card and RAM are well seated, then check BIOS settings and boot to the winXP cd for reinstall.

To boot to WinXP cd (depending on your machine) you may have to make cd-rom first boot device in BIOS.