Hi Computing.net, I can't find an answer to this anywhere so I thought I'd just ask. Recently I bought an old motherboard with a processor, and plugged in a few spare parts to it. The specs are: 1.8 GHz P4 ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 256Mb Asus P4B533-VM Motherboard 1 Gb RAM I installed Windows XP SP2 and a few drivers for sound, networking, and the latest drivers for the video card, and it all seemed to be working fine. Then I tried a game called Dungeon Siege 2. It installed properly, but the game would always freeze within a minute or so after the game world was loaded, and I'd have to reset the computer each time. I tried a few things such updating to the latest patch and fiddling with a few settings but nothing worked, and after having restarted the computer about 10 times I gave up. About 10 minutes after that whole ordeal, though, I was copying over files from another computer, and the computer (the one on which Dungeon Siege 2 failed to work) suddenly froze. Now, if I turn on that computer, it displays the Award BIOS logo along with all that information, then the screen just goes black. The Windows logo doesn't even display. It's displaying black, not nothing, because the monitor is still glowing and it's not displaying "no signal". I'm able to enter BIOS if I want, but it seems that nothing else works. Hitting F8 might work, but I can't tell because the screen's black in either case. I attempted to reinstall windows, but after the "press any key to boot from CD", I hit enter and the screen just goes black again. Any help on this would of course be greatly appreciated.

Check the PSU and make sure it has not quit working on you... Check all system fans, especially the one over the chip's heatsink....P4's overheat and will shut down immediately! In reference to 11/05/2008 "So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause." - George Lucas