PC wont boot

**imax** · 10/03/2008 08:33:36

Any of you gurus got any ideas what could be the problem let me know plz.

My room mates PC wont boot up. This morning he noticed that it appeared to be frozen, his desktop was up but he had no cursor. So he powered down manually but when he turned it back on it wouldn't boot up.

The machine is getting power, but nothing really happens, except it beeps (3 long beeps) and one of the fans starts blowing REALLY hard. Its a Gateway and he bought it from best buy. I told him to check see if its still under warranty and take it to geek squad at best buy, but it would help if he had an idea what could be the problem maybe.

I think the CPU went kaput, but I don't know jack. Why would the fan be blowing so hard right at powerup?

null, I think we have it all worked out. Took the ram out and cleaned it a little switched them around and put them back in and seems to be fine now.

**LtCmdr_Tsusai**

run memtest just incase.