Arg! Computer won't boot!

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Sean

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
 
No POST? Any beeps? You need to count the beeps and then ID which BIOS you
have on your PC and work out what's occurring.

Personally the first thing I'd do is reseat the grahics card and check the
PSU.

Cari
www.coribright.com
 
I'm not sure what you're talking about when it comes
to "POST", but there is one beep when i power it up...
that's it, then it sits on a graphic for the rest of the
time. How do i go about reseating, or resetting the
graphics card? What should i do to check the PSU?

Thanks so much for replying!

Sean
 
Sean said:
I'm not sure what you're talking about when it comes
to "POST", but there is one beep when i power it up...
that's it, then it sits on a graphic for the rest of the
time. How do i go about reseating, or resetting the
graphics card? What should i do to check the PSU?

Thanks so much for replying!

Sean
Click to expand...

I think he is implying that you need to take the lid off and check all of
your connections and make sure all the boards are correctly in there slots.

Martin P
 
Right. First thing is to check that all connections inside the box are
tight. Since you are only getting one beep (this is good; one short
beep is normal, a long beep may signal a problem), my thinking is that
the one of the hard drive cables might be loose.
 
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