Back layout of hp a1600n

First problem is the data inportant to you on there, if so before and other work is done i suggest have it recovered before work is done, easy way remove hard drive and place it in a docking staion as long as the drive is readable and use another machine to expolore you hard drive to recover data. if a corrupt mbr use icare data reovery as a computer shop or centre will be more than happy to charge big money.

no OS stated, windows what?
the OS is infected.
and has 2 choices,., days cleaning it or reload
unstated OS (operating system) windows.
is this the VIRUS magnet XP???? do tell,.... its been dead for 3 year now, so is x10 worse, and worse every day forward in trim. a fact.

its infected.
or could be HDD going bad, but min most cases it tells you that.
file errors.
a1600n is old now, very old.
does the F11 key work at power on, restore OS?

a1600n is now retired at HP.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/retired-products


best is to upgrade to at least w10
or go to goodwill(tm) store buy a $20 pc with COA W7 sticker on
it, and invest in pC'S with a future.. or its a hard row to hoe.
endless.

w7 good
XP bad.
VISTA bad
older 1000x bad

Running slowly could be a lot of things. It could be you don't have enough physical memory (RAM) in your computer to do what you want. Less than 1 or 2 GB might be seen as slow. If you really want to reinstall Windows, back up all the files you want to save to someplace else, like an external hard drive or thumb drive. You will have to reinstall all your programs (Office, etc) after you reinstall Windows. Take the CD copy of Windows that came with your computer and boot your computer to that. You may have to change the boot order by entering Setup (usually by pressing F2 when it starts). Make sure the CD drive is first in Boot Order. When you boot to the CD follow the instructions for installing Windows in the screens which follow. Delete any existing partitions and install it on a clean partition.
Good luck!

Sounds like your lightscribe driver is missing, just google for a driver that supports your DVD/RW model. also you could do a system restore to another time when it was working?

you need to open up the case, and remove the CMOS battery ( a silver wafer-style battery about the size of a quarter) and leave it out for about 10 minutes. put the battery back in and close the case back up and DONT mess with ANYTHING ELSE. if the computer STILL wont boot, then your motherboard is bad, and will need to be replaced through the manufacturer of your PC.

Are the keys sticking, may need to clean the keyboard

Since you have another vga card, is it pci, if it is install it to see if if works, if it does them problem solved, if not let me know then can help ya further.
Mark

You might wanna try to buy a video card and hook it into a PCI port, sometimes the Integrated video modules fail but the rest of the motherboard works.

It all depends on your bios type.  Here is some more information for you to reveiw. http://en.kioskea.net/contents/pc/bios.php3

Hi..

Go to your local service guy and tell him to take out the ram and then insert it back in...will do the magic.