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by davidk

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am having an issue with when booting up, the monitor the mouse nor the Keyboard work at all. I first noticed the problem when the screensaver froze, thought "ok no biggie" rebooted (tried to anyway) than problem started. I had the XP box connected to a switch box, thinking that could be the problem, once I unplugged every thing and plugged these into the pc itself it seemed to fix the problem for about an hour after being idle than pc froze up agian. Now I am in the same boat as to where I started. Am at my witts end, about to go bald from pulling my hair out. Any suggestions would be great.

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by dmiles

When booting machine is there any activity lights on the front panel showing?

Do you get any beeps from the machine when booting?

Check the power supply to see if the fan is moving when booting machine.

By opening case you can check the cpu fan to see if it is running and also listen for sound of the hard drive booting up.

Try booting into safe mode,open device manager and check for any exclamation marks on any hardware devices.

You should check for all programs that is running in the backe ground,specifically anti-virus,power mangement settings.

You should check for bad memory and video card

by davidk

Well, I checked the Power Supply and yes it was dead, but now after replacing the PS the PC will just freeze, no screen saver (was disabled) pwr management set to Never for everything.

by thechas

At what point does the PC freeze?

If it freezes before loading Windows, or before Windows is completely loaded, try removing your modem or NIC.

Power supplies seldom fail by themselves.
If the root cause of the power supply failure was a power surge from a lightning storm, it is probable that your modem took a hit too.

Otherwise, depending on how the power supply failed, you may have other system issues.
Perhaps even corrupt files on the hard drive.

Chas

by davidk

OK sorry for my no descriptive explaination of the problem have been rushed, So After installing the PS, windows will boot up, after being idle for lets say 45 min or so the PC freezes. I checked the pwr mngr, all set to never, screen saver set to off.

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