Help!!!! Urgent!!!  

Hi there!! I am in need of some serious help ... I have Intel 3.2GHZ Dual CPU(HT),2GB RAM,Main board,integrated sound/graphics,250GB HDD ati radeon xpress 200 series

When the computer has been off for more than 20 minutes I have great problems getting it to start again. I have to "jump Start it" I remove the power plug from the CPU box wait for a few seconds and then plug it in again ... it will start abit but then die and start abit more and die and then after about 30 minutes of constantly removing the power and putting it back in again will it start and then it will run smoothly for the rest of the day.

Yesterday I did a system check and a note came back saying that "ati radeon xpress 200 series was interferring with the start up process of the PC"

Oh and then once it finally start it will stsyem restore to about a week ago So i cannot do anywork cause all my new programmes get uninstalled.... driving me nuts...

Oh the problem has been there for about 5 months now but it was never this bad ... would only 5 minutes to get it started ... I installed skype 2 weeks ago and it just went mad ... this is the second time it happened when I installed skype

What can I do to solve this problem????

How big is the power supply? it may be having trouble producing enough juice for your hardware

I have no idea ... how do I find that out?

Remove your video card if you have any, and try to boot that way.
Now put it back and remove any other devices, like printers, mouse even the keyboard. Try to boot up.
If no changes, put back everything in place.
Search the connection between the tempreture, and the number of times to a successful boot.
At first it sounded like a hardware problem, but this skype installation thing is freaking strange.

renecapetown said:

I have no idea ... how do I find that out?

Look at the big box located at the back, top or bottom in your case. There has to be a max/peak output Watt value.

speedgamer01 said:

Remove your video card if you have any, and try to boot that way.
Now put it back and remove any other devices, like printers, mouse even the keyboard. Try to boot up.
If no changes, put back everything in place.
Search the connection between the tempreture, and the number of times to a successful boot.
At first it sounded like a hardware problem, but this skype installation thing is freaking strange.

As far as I know the card is an intergated sound and graphics card how do i remove it???? can i just disable tonight? I will try it in the morning to unplug everything before powering up


I will only be able to open it up and check on the size of the powersupply later

Maybe a silly question but I was thinking if I disable the "ati radeon xpress 200 series" driver tonight when i shutdown will it start up in the morning? does windows 7 need a graphics card to start up?

Does your moni

Does your monitor plug into a port on one of those sideways parts down lower or does it plus into one with lots of other ports all around it?

renecapetown said:

Maybe a silly question but I was thinking if I disable the "ati radeon xpress 200 series" driver tonight when i shutdown will it start up in the morning? does windows 7 need a graphics card to start up?

It would start and boot just fine without a graphics card but it wouldn't be very useful

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