- Sep 27, 2002
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I'm pulling my hair out and could use some troubleshooting ideas, folks.
I assembled the system spec'd out below about a week ago. It booted up just fine and I loaded Win XP Home and some software for the DVD-RW drive. In the process of this, I rebooted the system probably a dozen times and everything was working fine.
The system sat over the weekend until last night, when I decided to open the BIOS and start making the appropriate tweaks there. But I never reached the BIOS: No boot. It doesn't beep and there's zip on the screen, just black. The hard drive light comes on a couple of times during this time, as does the floppy light. I'm at a total loss as to how to troubleshoot this and try to isolate the problem. I stuck in an old Win98 emergency disk, thinking I might be able to boot from that, but no go. I also tried starting with the WinXP CD in the drive, but that didn't work either.
Help, please!
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Barton 2500+ under a lapped AMD HSF with AS3
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ver. 2.0
Corsair PC2700 512 TWINX CL2
Maxtor 120Gig ATA/133 8meg cache
ATI Radeon AIW 9700 Pro
Antec Lanboy w/SmartBlue 350 ps
I assembled the system spec'd out below about a week ago. It booted up just fine and I loaded Win XP Home and some software for the DVD-RW drive. In the process of this, I rebooted the system probably a dozen times and everything was working fine.
The system sat over the weekend until last night, when I decided to open the BIOS and start making the appropriate tweaks there. But I never reached the BIOS: No boot. It doesn't beep and there's zip on the screen, just black. The hard drive light comes on a couple of times during this time, as does the floppy light. I'm at a total loss as to how to troubleshoot this and try to isolate the problem. I stuck in an old Win98 emergency disk, thinking I might be able to boot from that, but no go. I also tried starting with the WinXP CD in the drive, but that didn't work either.
Help, please!
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Barton 2500+ under a lapped AMD HSF with AS3
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ver. 2.0
Corsair PC2700 512 TWINX CL2
Maxtor 120Gig ATA/133 8meg cache
ATI Radeon AIW 9700 Pro
Antec Lanboy w/SmartBlue 350 ps