Hard to describe this but I will try.
When you first turn on the power....you can see the screen of the user accounts but in between loading it flickers from black to the start up screens on and off,on and off.If you wait a little while it comes good or if you hit F8 or pull the monitors power out and then plug it in again.This only has just started happening (within 2 days) could the HDD be on the way out??
It does not power off it is just a flickering on or off.This is the Kids machine ...details as follows
Less than a GB
80GB HDD (replaced last year)
Heavy intensive programs used on it such as AOE3(age of empires 3)MSN live,and they play on game sites like Kongregate. Any help would be appreciated.