A common reason for failure at that point is graphics, which is the most important part of a game machine, and also the part that is apparently the least well understood. The minimum is a real video card from AMD or nVIDIA, and not any substitute from Intel.
P, S. A similar symptom is very likely to affect any manufacturer's onboard video chips, whether AMD or Intel {there are few nVIDIA chipsets in common use any longer (other than in smartphones and sub-sized NetBook/NetTop Computers, but the same will apply for those, plus S3, and SiS)}.