mass produced pc wont boot

My mate has got a half decent shop pc and it was fine yesterday but when he shut down and turned on today it wont boot past the first screen (bios setup etc) I downloaded duplicate file remover from majorgeeks yesterday 4 him. please help!!! any suggestions would be greatly recieved

 

If he didn't know what to do with the duplicate file remover then he has most likely removed vital startup/registry/???.

Did he do a back-up before running the cleaner? If not can you get to system restore and find a point before the cleaner was ran?

 

it wont go past the enter bios screen then it turns off and bvack on again. Plus its started beepin which tells me ram??? also i cant get to a restore point!!

 

The beeps are actually telling you exactly why it won't continue loading. Sort of like morose code. Do you have the disks which came with the comp.? You may be able to use it to re-install the drivers/software needed to get the system back to starting up.

 

I can't say if it's RAM or not, but it is hardware. You can google for your BIOS maker and you'll get a list of codes and what they mean.

 

Thanks augie, I forgot to expand on the beeps. There should be descriptions in the user manual if that is available.

 

thanks for replies guys. its an intel 4. its runnin xp and i get 3 short beeps. i was gonna try my ram in it but its not compatible so cant! heatsink is really hot but seems in place and graphics is fine. could anyone say what beeps mean? i think its first 64k memory test or some sort of memory test failure. does that sound like rubbish to you lot?

 

From another board regarding 3 short beeps.
This error is linked to the memory. Try reseating the memory and/or swapping the RAM. Also, verify that the video card is securely seated.

I don't know what else to say except I hope you have the OS disks. You may be looking at re-installing. I know we only like to use this as a last resort but this one is beyond my knowledge.

Maybe someone will come along with a better direction for you to take.

 

thanks for that guys. i think it is a memory thing and not so fatal (hopefully) thanks for support.