I’m running XP2 on an AMD Athlon 2.5 Ghz or thereabouts with 512 MB of RAM. The system is about a year and a half old, and I had to change the power supply about 9 months ago.
The system started rebooting on its own periodically, on a seemingly random basis. This went on for a period of about one month, then the system died and now won’t boot at all.
When turned on, the lights on the CD and DVD-ROM drives flash as though going through the normal boot process, but I cannot boot from either drive (CD nor DVD), nor will the machine boot from the hard drive; pressing ESC, which is my bail-out into the BIOS setup does not work, nor does F8 boot me into Safe Mode.
A visual inspection of the mother board and components does not show any obvious signs of burning or shorting, disconnected or cut wires or anything loose.
What am I missing? What’s my next step? Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks!
Todd
