A friend of mine called me today to tell me her Win XP PC sudddenly stopped working. She had DLed a Windows update last night, restarted it, and it shut down after 10 min. It did this twice and broght her to the “do you want to start in safe mode” screen. she said no after the first time it shut down. The second time it shut down it would do nothing.
Initially, I thought it was the power supply, since none of the drive lights would light up, HD would not spin, CD drives would not open. I replaced the power supply, and the same thing happened. I took out one of the CD drives and connected it to her other pc (w/o IDE cables attached) and it operated fine (opened, light came on).
I reconnected it to the 1st PC, w/o the ide cables attached and it worked fine. Re-connected IDE cables – back to square one!! I reset memory, and all IDE cables to no avail.
She said she had not been experiencing any problems before this situation.
Any thoughts? Motherboard??
Thanks,
Paul
