This is the current situation... Computer (desktop) was running fine up till about 2 months ago. Then it started to act up. ''IE'' - Shut off on its own for no reason every few days or so, but it would start back up again without much of a problem.
As the weeks went on, it had gotten worse and worse. Over the last few weeks and days, it takes me about 20 mins to get it up and running for a few hours before it shuts down again.
This is what happens when i try to start it up - Gets to the windows loading menu, then clicks off and it starts to scroll the following message....
Bad BIOS Checksum..Starting BIOS Recovery
Insert Floppy
No Floppy Found
Insert Cd-Rom
No Cd-Rom Found
Insert Floppy
No Floppy Found
Insert Cd-Rom
No Cd-Rom Found
Insert Floppy
No Floppy Found
Insert Cd-Rom
No Cd-Rom Found
Basically it does this till i have to manually restart it again. When i restart, 80% of the time it still contines to scroll that message. The other 15% of the time it will get to the desktop screen before it shuts down again. The final 5% it will work fine for a few hours, before it shuts down and starts to scroll that above message again.
Now this is the weird part. I was able to get it to run for a few hours the other day long enough to do a system restore back to sept. For some reason it wouldnt let me restore it from a eariler date then that. But since i did the restore, now it is running much better, (like it did a few months ago), but it will still periodically restart.
I was thinking it was maybe the motherboard or the powersupply, but i dont think that would be the case, since it is running better since the restore.
Its seems that i was able to restore it back to where the problems were just begining, when the problem wasnt so bad. But as each day goes, it tends to get a little worse each day.
I know that was alot to read, but i had to try to fully explain the problem.
BTW - I did do a virus scan after the restore and it did locate a trojen virus that i deleted. Now when i do a virus scan, everything comes back clean, but the problem still continues...
Any help would be appericated...
Thx fellas...
Feel free to stare at my sig while you come up with a solution
UPDATE TO THIS POST.....[size=7][size=3]
I inserted my motherboard disk in the CD drive while it was doing it scrolling routine. Something happened..It stopped scrolling the BIOS message and said...
READING CD-ROM
STARTING ERASE........
STARTING PROGRAMING.......
Please power down and power back up to return to system...
At this point i was excited because i thought i had fixed the problem. Turns out that when i restarted the computer i get nothing on my monitor, it stays turned off. The orange power light is on for the monitor ( like when you go into stand-by mode), but the computer is running.
Now i am at a complete loss...
Any help would be appeicated...
Thx All...