Ok, this is pretty urgent so any help is appreciated
Just for the record, he has an Athlon 2400+ overclocked in the BIOS to about 2200Mhz from about 2000Mhz. An increase of around 10%.
After around 3 to 4 hours, he said that when his PC would only turn on to the memory testing screen but not actually test for memory or allow him to go any further. He cannot access is BIOS and said that twice he tried to reset it using the JBAT CMOS Jumper. No success there.
Currently all he gets is that screen so can anyone help me with this and how he can fix the situation? Thanks
P.S - He's running on XP Home Ed if you want the OS.
Probably a missing or corrupt file on the harddrive i would try doing a basic repair from his windows disc if he doesn't have one try obtain a copied one (just dont email anyone like microsoft tellin em )
I would try to remove all unnecessary boards, and disconnect the hard drive power connector. This will help isolate the problem; if you fried the processor or ram this will narrow it down. If it's the hard drive, modem, you will now be able to get to the BIOS screen. If the isn't any change try to remove the memory and try and boot again, you should now get a beep code without memory installed. You will have to know what BIOS you have to trouble shoot.
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