my power supply blew a few days ago.
i replaced it with a new one, and replaced teh fan (because the old one used to make dreadful noise)..
anyway, i didn't actually replace them by hand, i sent them to a pc place.
today i just got my pc back. i plugged in my HDD within teh appropriate cables and stuff.. and started the pc.. everything dos-startup related seemed fine.. when the XP boot screen shows up, the animated bar becomes all flickery, colored pixels start going about on the right of the bar.. then the screen stops working and the pc becomes in dead mode..
it's more likely a hardware problem, isn't it?
oh and by the way, i tried 2 HDDs so the problem couldn't be the HDD itself.
i also tried safemode.. it goes in the OS itself.. but everything is glitchy and you can't see anything..
i replaced it with a new one, and replaced teh fan (because the old one used to make dreadful noise)..
anyway, i didn't actually replace them by hand, i sent them to a pc place.
today i just got my pc back. i plugged in my HDD within teh appropriate cables and stuff.. and started the pc.. everything dos-startup related seemed fine.. when the XP boot screen shows up, the animated bar becomes all flickery, colored pixels start going about on the right of the bar.. then the screen stops working and the pc becomes in dead mode..
it's more likely a hardware problem, isn't it?
oh and by the way, i tried 2 HDDs so the problem couldn't be the HDD itself.
i also tried safemode.. it goes in the OS itself.. but everything is glitchy and you can't see anything..