anita said:
I left my computer on over night, and this morning it isnt
powering up
what can my problem be ?
is it my cmos battery or my power supply?
thanks
anita
This isn't the place to be asking such questions as it has nothing to do
with getting hardware to run under XP.
However, you give us little to go on - do you know what the function of the
CMOS battery is (obviously not or you wouldn't be suspecting it). All it
does is provide power to the CMOS chip (the little rectangular chip on the
motherboard that stores the BIOS settings when the system is off).
When you switch the system on is there any activity at all? Does the power
supply fan spin up? Are there any beeps (these will give us an indication of
what the problem might be, though they can vary from motherboard to
motherboard). A series of long beeps, about a second apart, could indicate a
RAM problem, a high pitched 'nee-naw' is a definite sign that the processor
is overheating; one long followed by one short beep is (usually) indicative
of a problem with the graphics card (if you have one, rather than an
on-board chip).
If the PSU spins up, and you don't hear any beeps, then I'm not really
sure - hardware isn't really my forte. Have you made any changes to internal
hardware? Added any new cards? Added RAM or changed the CPU of late?