fidos computer Options

[Gummy Bear]

hey, fidos computer is fucked he needs help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! when you turn it on it just has a blank screen. after several hours of turning it on and off .it will sometines boot .after sometime of being on it freezes and thin it will crash like a train in to a school bus . he said if any one can help he will do anyting there mind can conjure up. p.s. anyting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Magik5]

if u dont even no how to download linux, you definitly wont no how to use it, theres many different flavours each suited for different things. if you got a few different partitions/harddrives going on youll have to mount those as well which is generally via command line and can be a pain working out which one to mount as the naming convention isnt exactly obvious. id recommend staying away from it, but if you want to try it, good luck - id go for fedora, think it has a live cd version which means u can run from disc without having to install anything.

anyway, can you get into your bios at all, like by pressing delete or whatever your mobo wants you to press when you turn it on, or do you actually see nothing?

if you actually see nothing, (obviously check for loose cable connections first), then try removing your graphics card and either use your onboard vga port to connect your monitor to, or use an older gfx card or borrow one from a friend and try it with that.

if that fails, try starting your pc up with only one stick of ram in (if you have 2 or more that is) - a stick may have brokededed/

or, trying install windows on a new/different hard drive...

it could really be anything but tbh if youve already reinstalled windows once that kinda rules out a software related issue, so its gotta hardware, and i remember you saying a while back you had a blue screen bitching about display adaptor, which is why you should try the graphics card solution first