Re: XP Crashed!!!

Could be something internal was shorting out against the case cover and,
therefore, stopping the boot process. When you removed the cover you removed
the short. I would carefully look all through the case for any loose wires.
burn spots, etc.

"Graham" <graham.me(nospam)@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Using XP SP2
>
> While using Outlook Express (connected via broadband) my mouse pointer
> just froze completely, had to reboot, that has NEVER happened with XP
> before.
>
> On reboot all I got was a blank black screen with a single line dash
> flashing in the bottom left corner while my PC seemed to spend ages trying
> to read my floppy drive, then it would stop reading the floppy drive (note
> no disk in this drive) and still blank screen, no XP logo at any point,
> just sitting there blank screen. 5 minutes later still blank screen with
> no noise from my HD so had to switch off, this happened three or four
> times. On one of the reboots I tried to access the BIOS to see why it was
> suddenly looking so hard at my floppy drive but the BIOS wouldn't come up.
>
> I feared my CPU had blown so took the case cover off to make sure fan was
> running, it was, so tried to start with the cover off and it worked. Not
> sure what I disturbed? Now I am scared to turn it off tonight again when
> I am finished!
>
> Anyone got any ideas what could have happened. I have just done a full
> virus scan and it found nothing. The fact it was looking so hard at my
> floppy drive tells me it wasn't seeing XP on my Hard drive and so was
> looking elsewhere, correct?
>
> Graham
>
>


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