not booting up

[jman3-8]

ok, my compaq presario wont boot up. the power will go on but once i press
the power button the power is the only thing that turns on. can you please
help me????

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

ok, my compaq presario wont boot up. the power will go on but once i
press
the power button the power is the only thing that turns on. can you
please
help me????

Sounds like a hardware, not a Windows problem. Ask your
friendly dealer for assistance.

 

[Clark]

ok, my compaq presario wont boot up. the power will go on but once i
press the power button the power is the only thing that turns on.
can you please help me????

almost always RAM, Video, Power supply, or the Motherboard, but could be a
modem or sound card, but if those are built on board your in rough shape

Clark

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

ok, my compaq presario wont boot up. the power will go on but once i press
the power button the power is the only thing that turns on. can you please
help me????

No.

Some piece of hardware in your computer has died.

Take it to a technician for an autopsy.

 

[Tim Slattery]

ok, my compaq presario wont boot up. the power will go on but once i press
the power button the power is the only thing that turns on. can you please
help me????

Interesting. I own a Compaq Presario and have been having similar
problems. For months now it doesn't always come on. Like you, I press
the "Power" button, and the green "power on" LED comes on. There's a
sound in there SOMEWHERE, but nothing appears on the screen. I can
turn it off by pushing and holding the Power button. The green LED
turns off and I hear something spinning down. Then I try again. Once
it comes up, it's absolutely rock solid.

A couple of months ago I got fed up with going through this ritual for
as much as 20 minutes before the machine started up. I took it to the
local computer place. They first tried to tell me it was RAM. I had
added a 512MB RAM board several months ago. I took that out and there
was no change. I tried running with only the new board: no change.

So I took it back to the shop, and left it. When I finally got it
back, they told me that the tech had tried swapping in known working
RAM, disk...I forget all what they said. Nothing worked. So they tell
me there must be something wrong with the motherboard, and they can't
replace the motherboard. (They didn't charge me.)

I dunno...I was wondering if there was a problem with the power switch
someplace. Although pushing and holding always turns it off, and
pushing and releasing it while the machine is on always causes it to
hibernate. I have no better explanation than theirs, but I dunno.....

Perversely enough, since I brought it home, it behaves much better. It
almost always comes up on the first push, and only a few times have I
had to try it a second time. I haven't had to go beyond two, yet.

So maybe they tightened up some connection in all the hardware
swapping. Or maybe it will refuse to boot tonight.

It is very interesting to me to learn that somebody else's Presario is
acting the same way.

 

[Unknown]

Laptop or Desktop? CRT or LCD monitor. Could it be that only the monitor is
not working?

 

[jman3-8 via WindowsKB.com]

Interesting. I own a Compaq Presario and have been having similar
problems. For months now it doesn't always come on. Like you, I press
the "Power" button, and the green "power on" LED comes on. There's a
sound in there SOMEWHERE, but nothing appears on the screen. I can
turn it off by pushing and holding the Power button. The green LED
turns off and I hear something spinning down. Then I try again. Once
it comes up, it's absolutely rock solid.

A couple of months ago I got fed up with going through this ritual for
as much as 20 minutes before the machine started up. I took it to the
local computer place. They first tried to tell me it was RAM. I had
added a 512MB RAM board several months ago. I took that out and there
was no change. I tried running with only the new board: no change.

So I took it back to the shop, and left it. When I finally got it
back, they told me that the tech had tried swapping in known working
RAM, disk...I forget all what they said. Nothing worked. So they tell
me there must be something wrong with the motherboard, and they can't
replace the motherboard. (They didn't charge me.)

I dunno...I was wondering if there was a problem with the power switch
someplace. Although pushing and holding always turns it off, and
pushing and releasing it while the machine is on always causes it to
hibernate. I have no better explanation than theirs, but I dunno.....

Perversely enough, since I brought it home, it behaves much better. It
almost always comes up on the first push, and only a few times have I
had to try it a second time. I haven't had to go beyond two, yet.

So maybe they tightened up some connection in all the hardware
swapping. Or maybe it will refuse to boot tonight.

It is very interesting to me to learn that somebody else's Presario is
acting the same way.

mine doesnt come up at all. i think something on the motherboard could be
done. Ehh, the wosrt thing that i am gonna have to do is buy a new tower. i
just dont wanna switch from Window XP to Window Vista.

 

[jman3-8 via WindowsKB.com]

the monitor works perfectly fine

Laptop or Desktop? CRT or LCD monitor. Could it be that only the monitor is
not working?
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It is very interesting to me to learn that somebody else's Presario is
acting the same way.

 

[Unknown]

What I was trying to determine is how far in the boot up process does it
get. If you have a floppy, does it try to read the floppy? I.E. Does BIOS
start? CMOS battery? Etc.etc.

the monitor works perfectly fine

Laptop or Desktop? CRT or LCD monitor. Could it be that only the monitor
is
not working?

ok, my compaq presario wont boot up. the power will go on but once i
press

[quoted text clipped - 36 lines]

It is very interesting to me to learn that somebody else's Presario is
acting the same way.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Laptop or Desktop? CRT or LCD monitor. Could it be that only the monitor is
not working?

Laptop, therefore a CRT monitor. The trouble with that theory is that
once the machine comes up, it's flawless. If it were a monitor
problem, something would happen from time to time while the machine
was running.

 

[Tim Slattery]

What I was trying to determine is how far in the boot up process does it
get. If you have a floppy, does it try to read the floppy? I.E. Does BIOS
start? CMOS battery? Etc.etc.

If you're talking to me, I have no way of telling how far it gets
since the screen stays blank. I hear something whirring, and when I
push and hold the button to turn the power off I hear it spin down.

 

[Unknown]

Laptops do not use CRT's

Laptop, therefore a CRT monitor. The trouble with that theory is that
once the machine comes up, it's flawless. If it were a monitor
problem, something would happen from time to time while the machine
was running.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
(e-mail address removed)
http://members.cox.net/slatteryt

 

[Clark]

mine doesnt come up at all. i think something on the motherboard
could be done. Ehh, the wosrt thing that i am gonna have to do is
buy a new tower. i just dont wanna switch from Window XP to Window
Vista.

i just dont wanna switch from Window XP to Window

Vista.

Don't have to, buy a new PC from somewhere like Tigerdirect.com, buy a
referb and wipe the drive install XP with your old product ID when it tries
to activate it will ask you to call Microsoft, you just tell them the old
motherboard has died and it is under warranty (you are the repair guy fixing
it)

trust me
Clark

 

[Tim Slattery]

Laptops do not use CRT's

Of course, I got it backwards. Should have been "laptop, therefore an
LCD monitor".