I've got a dual platform computer. I've recently pulled
my PC out of storage since i've moved. Yesterday, my
computer was working just fine with Win2K. When i booted
to WinXP, my USB mouse wasn't working, so i thought it
best to restart. When i went to restart, the computer
won't reboot at all. I can't even get to the Bios edit
screen. i've got a 800 mhz athlon, 640mb ram, 40 gig hard
drive. one dvd and one cdrw drive installed, along with
floppy, and internal zip drive. Any suggestions on what i
can do to get it to reboot?

Any help is greatly appriecated!

Thanks,
Sean

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 08:00:36 -0700, Sean Johnson wrote:

> I've got a dual platform computer. I've recently pulled
> my PC out of storage since i've moved. Yesterday, my
> computer was working just fine with Win2K. When i booted
> to WinXP, my USB mouse wasn't working, so i thought it
> best to restart. When i went to restart, the computer
> won't reboot at all. I can't even get to the Bios edit
> screen. i've got a 800 mhz athlon, 640mb ram, 40 gig hard
> drive. one dvd and one cdrw drive installed, along with
> floppy, and internal zip drive. Any suggestions on what i
> can do to get it to reboot?
>
> Any help is greatly appriecated!
>
> Thanks,
> Sean

If BIOS is not posting the damage is lower level and not at the operating
system level. May be as simple as replacing the battery on the motherboard
that enables the storing of the computer's configuration. But since you
cannot get into the BIOS screens at all, it could be something more
serious. May want to have a repair shop take a look at this system to
determine if it is salvageable or not.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP/ Windows XP - Shell/User

If nothing comes up on the monitor then you have a POST
problem and its hardware related. Usually this is tracked
down by removing all the cards from the PCI/AGP slots and
1 by 1 re-inserting them and booting until the bad card is
located.

Badically, take it to a repair shops and tell them your PC
won't POST.

>-----Original Message-----
>I've got a dual platform computer. I've recently pulled
>my PC out of storage since i've moved. Yesterday, my
>computer was working just fine with Win2K. When i booted
>to WinXP, my USB mouse wasn't working, so i thought it
>best to restart. When i went to restart, the computer
>won't reboot at all. I can't even get to the Bios edit
>screen. i've got a 800 mhz athlon, 640mb ram, 40 gig
hard
>drive. one dvd and one cdrw drive installed, along with
>floppy, and internal zip drive. Any suggestions on what
i
>can do to get it to reboot?
>
>Any help is greatly appriecated!
>
>Thanks,
>Sean
>.
>