computer won't boot!

[arial]

Hi there, here is the story.
I've spent the last few days downloading the latest drivers and utilities for window xp pro
I run it on a wd120 go, with athlon 2500 cpu and a7n8x deluxe mobo.
When lately i 've installed IE6 , i had a message telling me that IE6 had created a fatal error and that i should inform microsoft about it, whatever, i didn't do it since i have a copy of xp and it did work for a while.
The problem i have now is that the computer will just not boot. When i turn it on, a short beep then the a7n8x deluxe splash screen appears and ...that's it. It won't boot and i can't even make it boot with a boot floppy. The mobo has a green light on, the floppy disk shows a green light , as the cdr when it boots but it just don't go farther .
Do anybody have an idea when i could come from?

[Tazman]

arial -

Welcome to TechIMO !.

To me, it sounds as if you are having a hardware / temp problem.

First thing I would check to verify this is to see if you can get in the BIOS (tap the delete key while it's booting). If you can, check you're temps (if you can).

Did you build this system? What are you using as a heatsink?

If you can get into the BIOS and the temps look OK (30º to 42º C), you may want to try booting with just the basics (1 stick of good memory, video card, floppy, and hard drive).

If still you can't get it to boot, I would start thinking maybe a virus . That's out in left field though - the only time I've seen XP get really flaky and quit is from either a bad driver (immediatly) or temps (overclocking too much).

Let us know what happens.

Mike