Desktop Booting Problem

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Hi there, my home desktop has developed a serious and frustrating problem that I cant seem to get sorted. I recently built myself a new PC with some bits off the net, now about a week after I put it together I was just surfing the internet and listening to some music then all of a sudden the screen goes black for a second and when it comes back on the PC has rebooted. At this point I didnt think much of it, just thought it was a random error but at the very first boot screen the PC lags and refuses to boot just showing a message for me to "Press F1 to resume" (see attached pic) No matter how many times I press it or how long I wait it just sits there doing nothing. I cant even get into the bios to check/change any settings. It's now done this twice before and at completely random times and last night it done it again. The only way I can seem to fix it is by formatting my hard drive which as you can imagine is a pain in the arse to do so often on a PC which isnt even month old yet, I'm running Windows XP Home with SP2 and all current updates with anti-virus and a firewall. The problem really does have me confused and I'm at a loss to whats causing it. If any of you guys have any idea then it would be greatly appreciated, I dont want to format all over again
Cheers :grumpy:
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Thanks for the reply Im currently using the power supply that came with the case I bought, Its an Antec NSK4400 Super Mini-Tower with a 380W SmartPower PSU. The following is a list of the parts.

Intel E4400 Socket 775 2x2.00GHz 800MHz FSB 2MB Cache
ECS 945GZT-M (V1.0) Socket 775 Core 2 Duo Onboard VGA Motherboard
Seagate ST3320620A 320GB Hard Drive 7200RPM 16MB Cache
Corsair 1GB DDR2 533 MHz 128mx64 Non-ecc 240 Dimm Unbuffered RAM
LG GSA-H42NBAL 18x DVD±RW/RAM Black

Cheers
 
Well the 1st thing I would do is clear the Cmos chip. See what that does. If that doesn't work then I would check the PSU voltages with a Digital Multimeter. If the voltage is ok then I would start looking at the ram...
 
I've had something close to this before. I found out it was a faulty HDD ribbon.
 
Just tonight my wifes freind's computer had the exact same problem. They asked me to check it out. Checked the PSU with DMM. Good readings. She had 2 1 gig ram sticks in so I pulled one. No boot. Put in the other and the computer booted into windows right away. I would check your ram.
 
Have you checked the jumpers on each on the Disks and the CD Drives to make sure they are set as master or slave correctly?
 

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