my pc is doing stupif things

hey my pc is not starting up there was someone playing wow earlier today and the computer just turned off on him he tried to restart it and it won't stay on long enugh to even open windows, when i tried to start when i got home i noticed that it will beep twice really quick after giving us one normal startup beep then it turns off and my power light starts to blink, i have things on the HD that i would like to keep so if anyone can help me getting it back up and running that would be great thx

 

System specs...? What kind of hardware, what kind of cooling, what OS and when did it start?

 

it an aseus board i can't rember the exact model its a lil old
amd 1.6 processer
1 gig of ram
large fan cooling

it started today

sorry i can't be more exact i don't know exactly what they are or really how to find it without my computer being able to be turned on im using my lap top at the moment.

 

oh and its running xphome

 

Well if you're getting extra system beeps on start up it's probably a hardware issue. The computer will beep a certain number of times depending on what the exact issue is, and if you have a manual for your motherboard I think it should tell you what the different beep codes represent. Just from looking around a bit on google I noticed that typically asus boards that beep like 1 long and 2 short, it means there is a problem with the video adapter (video card). Maybe try pulling the video card out and using the on-board video if the motherboard has one built in, and see if it starts up?

Also if you have more than one stick of ram try pulling all but one out, and alternating, and try turning it on to rule out a faulty ram module. I seem to remember a computer restarting randomly all the time due to bad ram.

Those are the only things I can think of to suggest, but good luck!

 

it can also help to just pull out the rams clean a little bit the contacts and try to boot then

maybe a stupid question but what kind off anti virus were u running?

 

i was using macafee on the pc i was gonna change it over to web root spyweeper that had there virus program in but hadent gotten that far yet.i will be trying the fixes that were posted now and see if they work thx for the help ill post if any of them work

 

ok i tried the ram but that didn't work i am unable to do the video card at the moment i have no onbord but a friend is gonna let me use one of his to try it out and see if that fixes the proplem, is there anything else i can try while im waiting for that?

 

Maybe try pulling the video card out in preparation for your friend lending you one, and see if the computer turns and stays on. You wont be able to see anything on the monitor obviously, but you'll be able to see if pulling the card out gets rid of the error beeps and if the computer stays on or not.

Ultimately though if you can't get the computer fixed, you can get an external hard drive case pretty easily and plug your computer HD into it, and connect it via USB/firewire to another computer to retrieve your files, even if it is a system disk/partition, the files will all still be there for you to transfer.

cheers

 

i will give that a shot tomrrow when i get home from work, im thinking i might just get me a new computer this one is getting kind of old if i can get it working that would be great but i don't want to invest anymore more money into so if there is more then the video card then ill buy a new one

 

ok i have now tried pulling one ram stick out and trying the other one for both of mine as well as my friends ram, i have also tried with a new video card and no video card as well as a new powersupply they all do the same thing so now im thinking im scrwed on that end unless you guy have any other ideas of what do to thx for the help

 

well you could try plugging your HDD into another pc, remove the other completely. This would tell you if its the HDD or another hardware fault, also i guess you could remove everything like sound card ect and run the system in a basic state.

Does windows begin to boot or does it just POST then crash? whats the last thing you see on the sceen? see any error messages before it shuts down?