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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
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Cheers
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