help!

[LtPage1]

ok- i was playing battlefront last night, and i tried to quit while a level was loading- everything went black, and nothing happened for 2 or 3 minutes. so, i tried, alt-tabbing, alt-f4ing, and cntrl-alt-deleting. nothing worked, so i pulled the plug from the power supply.
i was under the impression that this doesnt hurt anything- was i wrong? it wont turn on.
the motherboard is getting power- the ethernet port is lit up.

antec truepower 430
epox 8rda+
stock 2400+ tbred-b
mushkin 512 ram
5200ultra 128mb

 

[Comparisonman]

1) Try reseating your add-in cards, then try booting
2) Remove all add-in cards except video, then try booting

 

[fireontheway]

also try a CMOS clear...

 

[Demo24]

It would have been better to just push the power button or hold the power button. or just restart button.

 

[Comparisonman]

If your computer still doesn't boot after that, you want to take everything out and try running just your motherboard, CPU w/heatsink fan, memory, and video card on some non-conductive surface and see if it boots up. (Do this all the time at work)

 

[LtPage1]

i did try to turn it off with power/reset.

thanks, guys- ill try clearing the cmos first.

 

[Comparisonman]

Clearing the CMOS may not solve the problem. I've seen it more than once that a card goes bad or needs to be reseated. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if your network card went bad.

 

[LtPage1]

thankfully, clearing the cmos fixed it right away.

 

[Brian23]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
thankfully, clearing the cmos fixed it right away.

oh man, I was going to tell you to check if you had pluged the power cord back in after you pulled it.

 

[fireontheway]

lol thats a good one

 

[gotensan01]

I was playing Enemy Territory one day and during a map change the comp locked up. Nothing worked so I hard resetted it. Then it would keep saying that my hdd wasn't being recognized. I tried to turn it on about 5 more times. I went into bios to see my primary drive and it said something like "unknown device". Anyways, I didn't have to reset my cmos, I just let it sit about 40 minutes and it worked fine afterwards. I really dont' understand what could have been wrong that was fixable by letting it sit 40 minutes but whatever.