Stone-Age computer won't start. - Hardware & Software

So, my uncle has a 2002 year computer that won't start up, he wants to fix this one and has no money for a new one, also all his data is in this HDD. When it's reaching the windows XP loading screen, it shows the Blue Screen of Death but only for about 0.10 seconds and then restarts. Specifications: CPU: Intel 4 2.4GHz RAM: 1GB DDR Kingston HDD: 40GB Seagate 7200rpm Motherboard: L4S5MG3 Power Supply: 350W It has no graphics card, it's on-board graphics. (or something like that) That's about it. Please Help.

Overheating? Faulty RAM? No idea..

You can probably plug that Hard Drive into another computer if it's something else broken.. It sort of sounds like a dead Hard Drive to me. Though i could be wrong.

1:Get into the bios and disable auto reboot. 2:Write down what the BSOD says. 3:Put the results here or google them yourself.

[QUOTE=taipan;22947274]1:Get into the bios and disable auto reboot. 2:Write down what the BSOD says. 3:Put the results here or google them yourself.[/QUOTE] Is there any other name for "Auto Reboot"? I can't find it anywhere on the bios setup menu.

[QUOTE=dj_night;22974572]Is there any other name for "Auto Reboot"? I can't find it anywhere on the bios setup menu.[/QUOTE] Don't think so. Most prebuild motherboards don't have options like that. Best solution would be to plug in the harddisk in to a other computer. Then transfer files over. And reinstall windows

Auto Reboot is a Windows setting. You can't change it via the BIOS, you need to do it from control panel, I can't remember where it was for XP, I know exactly where it is in Vista/7.

Its probably loaded to the teeth with viruses from porn. At this point it's looking like a reinstall of Windows. Though you want to make sure it's not hardware first considering it's age.

Who said anything about porn?

If you have a copy of the Windows XP cd you can start the computer from the cd and run the recovery console. From within the console type the following commands: fixmbr (press enter), fixboot (press enter) the first command fixes the master boot record, the second writes a new boot sector. Occasionally running these two commands will stop a blue screen on boot.

[QUOTE=Mister TBD;22976087]If you have a copy of the Windows XP cd you can start the computer from the cd and run the recovery console. From within the console type the following commands: fixmbr (press enter), fixboot (press enter) the first command fixes the master boot record, the second writes a new boot sector. Occasionally running these two commands will stop a blue screen on boot.[/QUOTE] That didn't work, the blue screen only shows more clear. It was kinda foggy before. Oh by the way, it shows those options "Start windows normally" and "Last known good configuration" before the blue screen, neither them work, not even safe mode.