I've told Si about my problem...

Basically, the Large PC (the one my parents use) has basically killed itself.

About 4 months ago it started to shut down randomly. I mean randomly. No set pattern seemed to make it happen.

Now its basically broken down to not even booting to the BIOS screen. The other day the user registry became corrupt, and wiped pretty much everything back to factory settings. I amanged to get it booted after that, made a new user account (On Si's recomendation) and used that to do whatever we had to do yesterday.

Today it booted fine the first time, then mum was in the middle of doing the shopping when it randomly shut down again. I managed to boot it in safe mode, did the same as I did yesterday... restarted it, and then it just stayed dead.

All the lights came on, and the fans started etc. But nothing atually happened... no screen info, no keybord response etc....

Any one got any Ideas? Si reckons the jumpers might fix it, but that means i have to open it up....

Sounds like RAM problems.

I would give it a clean first, dust can kill a computer and I'd imagine you have a lot of it in there.

After that, maybe RAM problems, try each module separately to see what happens.

My computer is like full of dust and its all good xP

In fact its better than it used to be...

I think dust increases your MHz.

Obviously xD

I tried the jumpers...

Its totally <LOOK MA, I AM SWEARING> I guess mum and dad will have to take it somewhere to be fixed

I have had problems like this..

Basically I managed to reset my BIOS to its defaults which did allow my computer eventually to boot at hich point I put in the windows disc and wiped the system xP

Reinstalling is a major fix for problems tbh.. If it still screws if you manage to do that then aaron might be correct in saying its a ram problem..

Ok, so most people recon its a Mobo failure....

http://support.packardbell.de/de/item/index.php?i=spec_Sunshine&pi=platform_veloce_ixtreme

Thats the one I have now.... a Gigabyte GA-8I915PM.

Its a 775 socket, with a GB of ram.

Basically I need a similar Mobo, and some help, with how to change it and put it all back together.... IT NEEDS TO BE AS CHEAP AS POSSIBLE

You can get a new S775/DDR2 mobo for around £30-50.

However!

You need to run a full check first, it could be RAM etc. Strip the computer down to the bare essentials (mobo, CPU, graphics, 1 stick of RAM) and try booting it. If that doesn't work, switch the RAM stick (most comps have 2 sticks) and test. If it does work, add the other stick and test again, then add the add-in cards one by one.

No beeps, no nothing....

Tried what you said. I even took out the graphics card.... Stil no beeps

Dave i have the same prob ^_^ have had it for good couple months now at least.

PC randomly die's or reboots. sometimes the fans go crazy which i learnt means it won;t start up and i need to reset etc till they don't (fan?) so hard. regardless i have had ram checked motherboard and PSU checked over this time and it still happens. I'm considering a new PC

sound 2 b simular 2 the thing tht happened tyo me recently remove all non complently vial comoinents by unpluging them including hd, cd drive , boot is it get ti biso screan then replace 1 by 1 each part and see if ut still boots of it dnt gt to bios at all the mb or cpu will b dead prity much, when i did this it worked and in the end evverything went bk n worked fine

Thats what I did.... No beeps, no nothing....

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=1800

I think this is the one i have currently... But no where seems to sell it aftermarket

Errrm..

1.5BGps SATA HDD
24 pin power connection
ATX
Dual CHannel DDR400/333 RAM

and its 24.4 x 24.4cm

Can anyone help me find one that can do all that... Oh its got to have a PCIE slot too