Why won't my IBM thinkcentre boot?

This is at work. This PC boots up to the ctrl+alt+delete screen then nothing happens.

You can move the mouse but you can hit ctrl+alt+delete all day long.

This is Windows 7 and sadly at work all the IT guys just keep telling me to pull the power cord out and plug it back in to make it work. It works to login but now the PC is overheating and the fan runs constantly all day long.

I would like a better solution.

:-) you could borrow a keyboard from somebody elses just to be sure that your keyboard is working. If the failure still continues, then it's the IT guys responsibility to make it work. Send an email to your boss notifying this, and he should forward it to the responsible person. This should make them get to work and fix it.

Oh, and the heating and the fan noise can be really easily fixed, by blowing compressed air thru the vents, this should clear up the heatsinks.

You need new IT guys. These are lazy idiots!

ZM- it sure works when it re-boots. I have an IT degree, I'm just not allowed to touch work computers (my job is non union). They are such lazy jerks, This is after my boss told them to get on the job.