Is My Computer's Failure to Boot a Hardware or Software Problem?

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I have a custom tower with DVD,CD-rom and even floppy disk which I plan on replacing. It has a AMD athlon processor, and I never used this computer online. Recently a friend of mine hooked it up online (long story) without updating for viruses etc. Now the windows startup won't boot. And I have tried wiping but can't seem to get it started. Are there some programs that I can buy online or is this just a hardware problem?
 

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Or anything. What's it say when it won't boot?
 
t-money said:
I have a custom tower with DVD,CD-rom and even floppy disk which I plan on replacing. It has a AMD athlon processor, and I never used this computer online. Recently a friend of mine hooked it up online (long story) without updating for viruses etc. Now the windows startup won't boot. And I have tried wiping but can't seem to get it started. Are there some programs that I can buy online or is this just a hardware problem?
t-money,

Funny you mention it, another member is having similar problems, see advice in https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=382493", my post #14, this may be of some help.

Rhody...
 
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