Hey guys,
I couldn't find a dedicated hardware section here so I picked this section to ask my question assuming that system administrators of all kind hit this forum. Guide me to an appropriate section if possible.
My computer abruptly stalls. I've dual boot with Windows XP Professional and Ubuntu 9.x
XP has become slow to load, login and responds to clicks/keyboard events. After sometime it just stops responding but there is always some output on the screen. (No blue screen) Can hear the CPU fan running.
No such problems with Ubuntu but after sometime it just stalls as if power is cut suddenly. No output on the screen. No CPU fan running.
After that if I try to restart it, either it just won't start or if it does then none of the OS loads successfully... it stalls again while loading any OS.
I need to give it some resting time but no guaranteed start after that too.
Since yesterday it has gone on "indefinite strike" and just refuses to start.
I've tried removing some devices which I thought were faulty (network card and CD writer) but no luck.
I've also updated BIOS through XP.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.