PC won't Boot up

[Randy K.]

I can not get my PC to come on or boot up. Sunday morning there was a update
from Mircosoft in the corner by my clock. I grabbed my mouse to click on it
and my PC was froze. So I pushed the ON button and held it tell the PC went
off. I waited a few secs. and hit the button again. The Light comes on and
the small light under it comes on solid (does not blink). But that's it.
Screen does not come on at all. Any help would be gratful. Thanks.

 

[Malke]

I can not get my PC to come on or boot up. Sunday morning there was a
update from Mircosoft in the corner by my clock. I grabbed my mouse to
click on it and my PC was froze. So I pushed the ON button and held it
tell the PC went off. I waited a few secs. and hit the button again. The
Light comes on and the small light under it comes on solid (does not
blink). But that's it. Screen does not come on at all. Any help would be
gratful. Thanks.

Sounds like your hard drive just died. It could certainly be other
components, but I'd start the troubleshooting with the drive.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Standard disclaimer: I can't see and test your computer myself, so these are
just suggestions based on many years of being a professional computer tech;
suggestions based on what you've written. You should not take my
suggestions as a definitive diagnosis. Testing hardware failures often
involves swapping out suspected parts with known-good parts. If you can't
do the testing yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer,
take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local
equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your data
backed up before you take the machine into a shop.

Malke

 

[Dave Cohen]

Sounds like your hard drive just died. It could certainly be other
components, but I'd start the troubleshooting with the drive.

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

Standard disclaimer: I can't see and test your computer myself, so these are
just suggestions based on many years of being a professional computer tech;
suggestions based on what you've written. You should not take my
suggestions as a definitive diagnosis. Testing hardware failures often
involves swapping out suspected parts with known-good parts. If you can't
do the testing yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer,
take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local
equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your data
backed up before you take the machine into a shop.

Malke

I would try booting from something else. Don't know what you have. If
you have a floppy drive a bootable floppy is easiest. Else try a
bootable cd. Note: you may have to check boot order in bios and fix if
necessary. If you can make a Bart PE winxp from a working machine that's
ideal since it will recognize the nt file system on your hd so you can
check hd.
Dave Cohen
Dave Cohen

 

[sgopus]

if you see nothing at all when you boot, then it wouldn't be the HD, I would
aim towards A memory chip went south, and or possibly your motherboard died.

can you verify your cooling fans are coming on?
if not then your powersupply could be the culprit.
if the fans work, then focus on Ram chips, if you have more than one, remove
all but one, if no joy, replace that one with a different one, and so on to
narrow down the issue, if only one, I suggest you take it to a GOOD repair
shop.