or ram, could be motherboard, processor, hard drive or ram also if you
have more then one stick remove one try it then try the other, also
repair your old install of xp and try that drive again, then remove
fan check thermal grease clean it off reapply after looking for burn
marks on processor (caused by overheating), suggest a thermal grease
with silver in it but do not get that on anything but he processor it
is conductive, and i somewhat agree that if it is motherboard or
processor it may be time to upgrade but i would try some more, good
luck
On Jul 31, 10:03 am, iconlarry <cohe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have (maybe had) an 8 or 9 year old HP desktop computer running XP.
> It is my favorite computer (like an old pair of comfortable shoes).
>
> Lately it looks like it's near death. Here's the gloomy tale:
>
> Over the last three weeks the computer would freeze. Really freeze
> where the only remedy was to reboot the computer. At the times that it
> froze I could hear a low pitched howling sound that I could not
> pinpoint. Matters got worse. It started doing the same thing during
> the reboot process when loading windows. Then it got really worse. All
> I got were the fans whirling, the ability to open and close the
> optical drives (I have two), and the hard drive light staying on -
> nothing else. No video, no ability to go into the BIOS, nothing, nada!
> Here are the steps I took along the way to solve the problem:
>
> 1. Thinking the noise might be from on of the fans, I stopped them one
> at a time to see if the noise would stop. No luck.
>
> 2. The computer has a motherboard which connects to the to the drives
> via IDE cables which supports two hard drives; the "C" drive (100GB)
> for programs and the operating system, and a "G" drive (500GB) for
> data files. I disconnected the data HD ("G") from the system. No luck.
>
> 3. I replaced the "C" drive with its earlier version (40GB) that I had
> used to clone the present 100GB "C" drive. No luck. In fact I receive
> the error message "NTLDR missing." I then went back to the current
> 100GB hard disk - still with the same error message: "NTLDR missing."
> However, I was able to overcome this by using Hiren's Boot CD. [This
> is before the total failure I referred to above.] Also using Hiren's I
> tested both hard drives - they tested 'good.'
>
> 4. After speaking with a friend, he suggested it might be the power
> supply. I had bought a new power supply to keep on hand in case the
> current one got fried. After putting it in, the new power supply
> turned out to be DOA. (What else could go wrong?) So I a bought a
> power supply tester and tested both the old one and new one. The
> original power supply turned out to test perfect. (How accurate are
> power supply testers? What' a top notch brand?) The new one not so.
>
> Other than a defective motherboard which would necessitate buying a
> new computer, can anybody suggest a fix?
>
> One last question, 4 weeks prior to all this happening I replace the
> data hard drive "G" with the 500GB drive whereas the original "G" was
> a 200GB drive. Could this have stressed the system to cause the
> failure?
>
> Larry
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