Don't know what's wrong.

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XanderCage

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So my home computer running on an amd sempron 3400+ 512 mb of ram, started getting blue screens which read; Windows has shut off because there appears to be an error and windows has shut off in order to prevent any hardware damage. If this is the first time that this has appeared restart your computer. If it's already appeared then disconnect any new hardware or uninstall any new software in safe mode.

So now the thing is, it used to start up fine, it would run fine for a while then it would get the blue screen. Now it won't even display an image. Weird thing is that, whever i plug in the power cord at the back, the computer starts by itself. This didn't happen before.

Please help.

Thank you.
 
Have you installed any new software or hardware? try disabeling it
also try to do a system restore this lets you go back and restore your computer to a previous time when it was working ok
on windows xp click start, programs, accessories, system tools, and system restore and choose a restore point. also in the same folder you can set windows to start with no add ons and see if its a problem with another program. on my other computer i had a problem that sounds alot like yours and i turned off the add ons and windows booted ok then turned them back on a few at a time untill it failed again turned out to be the google tool bar
 
it could be bad ram try taking out one of your memory sticks, or unplug your cd rom drive
and try to start it, i've seen bad drives keep a computer from starting before...
 
Okay so i tried what you guys told me.

I took off the power to the cd drives and the cables. No luck, tried one ram stick, the other one, no ram sticks. Nothing, is it possible there is a short somewhere because as soon as i plug in the power cord to the power supply it automatically starts up :confused::confused:

please help
 
So after doing some google browsing i came up upon a forum in which a member had the same problem. He fixed it by, removing the motherboard battery so that the bios would clear. I did that, and eureka it works. I'm please to say that i'm posting from this machine.

It's not a gaming machine, more of a home computer but saving it makes me happy. ;>
 
If it powers up immediately upon being plugged in, my first guess is that either the case power switch is stuck on, or there's some sort of motherboard failure involving power. My two cents.
Tom
 
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