Vista - Computer won't boot, black screen

So one night I accidentaly left a flash drive in the USB slot on my
puter when I turned it off, then when I turned it on again, nothing
appeared on my screen, the monitors power light was blinking like it was
on standby, and the puter was trying to boot from the DVD drive. The
power light was on, and all the fans were blowing. I can't remember if
the Hard Drive light was on or not, sorry.

After much fiddling we figured if we opened the DVD drive and just
left the computer on in the same state it would eventually turn on,
sometimes with me restarting it every now and then. When it does finally
start I dont think it even shows the BIOS screen, it just shows the
Vista icon, but I can't be sure since I tend to walk away. Also, it's
random as to whether it turns off or not. Sometimes while I'm waiting
for it to turn on I'll turn it off and om again, not just restart, but a
lot of the time it turns off then back on again on its own. Does that
make sense?

Once the computer was on, it would randomly BSOD. But when it
restared itself it would start fine, the BIOS would show and it would
happen straight away.

But then my friend and I set to fixing it, and we found the CPU and
the chipset were boiling, so we installed a huge CPU fan, a fan directly
over the chipset, and another case fan. This keeps them all cool and now
if hardly ever BSOD.

We also updated the BIOS but that didn't help, and reinstalled Vista,
but again, I don't think that did anything.

We came to the conclusion that it was the motherboard, and I have
already bought one from eBay.

I should say that when my friend and I were putting it together (I
got the parts seperately from the computer fair) he accidentally had
metal touching the motherboard I think, but apart from the BSOD's (which
I think were mostly down to the overheating CPU and chipset) it was fine
until the flash drive incident.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

My specs (to the best of my knowledge; sorry, I don't really know how
to state these but any questions let me know) are;
AMD Phenom Quad Core
500GB Hard Drive
nVidia GeForce 9600GT
2GB RAM (But on BIOS only says 512MB?????)
Gigabyte 770 mobo
Vista Ultimate

CHEERS!


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I would also check the power supply.
That is a common failure, and it can cause a myriad of issues.
"DalekRockstar" <DalekRockstar.3koxzc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey thanks for replying.
There is a new development, it seems; if I turn it on and leave it
for a few seconds, I MIGHT hear a soft click (or not), and after that if
I just press the Power button instead of holding it in; like I'm just
turning it on, it seems to start up. Just noticed it today, though, so
the details, especially click, might not be accurate!

When we were buying the parts, the last thing we got was the PS, and
we were having trouble finding one that would run my system. I can give
you the details of the PS and see if that helps, if you'd like.


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