[yorkiepuddingus]

I have an Athlon XP 2600 with 512mb PC2100 RAM. It has on-board graphics and runs on XP Home Edition.

When it is switched on - all the necessary fans work - the monitor standby light switches on - but the display shows 'No Signal'. The computer then starts to beep twice intermittently.

Any solutions???

[Wolfeymole]

Hi Yorkie

Welcome to TCF

This sounds like either bad memory or a dislodged graphics card,
Let me look or if the team have an immediate answer then great.
Do you know the make of your BIOS?
I'm guessing it's AMI

[yorkiepuddingus]

have tried various things with the memory cards (cleaning and replacing etc) and hey presto the computer now works!!! or so I thought.

Everything boots up Ok but I can't get passed the windows xp log-in. It will no longer accept my password so I cannot get into the system to do anything. I know prior to breaking down that I was having problems getting into Xp and it was threatening me with 7 days to revalidate - despite doing so on a number of occasions. Can't helkp but think the only solution is to buy a new HDD??

What do you think?

Regards

[Wolfeymole]

Methinks some massive hardware changes have occured here Yorkie, am I correct?

[yorkiepuddingus]

Computer is my son's and we have the original Windows XP Home edition OEM Product Key. Over a period of time his computer started to run slower and slower so a couple of times he re-installed the XP and revalidated it. No problems there - but when he tried to wipe off old files and progrmas from his hard drive - it wouldn't do it. So on a HDD of 60GB it only had about 5GB of free space.

No major hardware changes have taken place other than taking out the 1 GB of RAM (to go in a new computer) and replacing it with the older 512mb RAM.

Regards

[jeystone]

How old is the onboard Battery?

[Wolfeymole]

I'd get on the phone to Microsoft Jey.
In theory you shouldn't have a problem reinstalling on the same pc any number of times but I do know MS aren't keen.
I'd do a complete new install rather than a reinstall, are you aware of how to do so?

To Jey:
The mobo battery will not be causing this problem mate.

[jeystone]

Originally Posted by Wolfeymole I'd get on the phone to Microsoft Jey. In theory you shouldn't have a problem reinstalling on the same pc any number of times but I do know MS aren't keen. I'd do a complete new install rather than a reinstall, are you aware of how to do so? To Jey: The mobo battery will not be causing this problem mate.

well I had a similar problem that was down to the mobo battery so thought I would add my 2 pennies worth lol

[Wolfeymole]

Hey no problem Jey, all input is welcome here.:)