Solve : stalling start up?

1.	Solve : stalling start up?
Answer» my goddaughter was given a dell computer from her job. when she plugs it up at home it comes on for a second then shuts off sometimes other times it goes thru the modes of starting when in safe MODE it runs a list that it maybe checking (multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows\system32\ntoskrnl.exe and others then it stops. what could be wrong?1. Run memtest: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic62524.html 2. Run hard drive diagnostics: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287 Make sure, you select tool, which is appropriate for the brand of your hard drive. Depending on the program, it'll create bootable floppy, or bootable CD. If DOWNLOADED FILE is of .iso TYPE, use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/ to burn .iso file to a CD, and make the CD bootable. NOTE. If your hard drive is made by Toshiba, which is not listed, try using Hitachi TOOLS.

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