You look over the machine for maintenance issues. How long it's been since the heatsink compound was replaced and the canned air cleaning. It's rarely anything other than hardware issues.
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I have somehow managed to fix it so that I cannot boot either from the c drive or the xp installation drive. When trying from c drive it gets to the place where it says windows and the line show ing the load and stops about 3 bars in. When trying to boot off the installation disk it gives me the blue screen and says setup in the upper left corner, and reads the cd for about 5/10 minutes, stops and simply hangs.
I have also seen, one time, that there is some kind of setup password. I think this is coming from the bios which I have looked for but, maybe not hard enough.
Anyway - any thoughts?

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