hardware problem?

[braino]

My main PC (Athelon 750, 512 Mg, WIN2K Pro) quit working the other day. It loads up until the win2k white loading screen. Initially I thought maybe windows was corrupt. Safe mode didn't work nor did last known good. So I tried to reinstall. It locks up at loading win2k. which is about 2-4 min. after booting from disc (before it even has you format, or any other questions for that matter).
So then I borrowed another copy of win2k and tried that disc. Same problem. Tried them both on another cd-rom drive. Same problem. So I think I have narrowed it down to hardware. I have some ram around, so I swapped that out. Same problem. The processor fan is on and working fine. Not to mention everything happens at the same point everytime. Sooooo, what does anyone else think? Anything I should try? Thanks....

[slickvic22]

Sounds like the motherboard or the Hard Drive. Im not expert though. Id get rid of Win2k and try to get XP to begin w/.

[johnnyis42]

sounds like the "yank and pray" time.... pull out everything you can and just leave the minimum components (cd rom, mobo, processor, memory, video, hdd) and see if it loads.

it's possible that it is the video card, and that it actually is finishing loading but the video is just hanging on the last screen as it switches over to windows setup or the login screen. give us a full system spec of your rig, maybe there's something there you missed that could be causing it.

[braino]

well i have swapped hard drives, that didn't solve it.
i have booted with minimum amount hooked up, no luck.

i will try with another video card plugged in.

the one that is plugged in is all-in-wonder128
it is real old.