Dual boot KT6 Delta won't boot from either bootable drive?

Recently my system has been playing me up and the monitor refuses to wake up or come in the morning. The only way to get it back is to press the reset button. This morning however I cannot get any further than the post screen where it shows me all the system details, it refuses to start to load either OS from the two hard drives. Where should I start to look to fault find please. Thanks for your help in advance.

Quote from: pompeyrodney on 22-February-07, 22:34:17
Thanks for the help, I am interested to know how many amps I should be looking for and could you guys recommend a good PSU for not much money. Thanks again.
look here for good PSU suggestion:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=104400.msg768358#msg768358
you should look for single rail PSU with high amperes provided on +12V
what memory you use?

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