Hi, I am trying to help a friend with his computer problem. He was installing a new HD and things were going great. He said he wanted to go into the bios to look at some settings and when he hit the delete key to enter the comp froze and now it will not boot up.
The fans,HD's do power on but the monitor light never goes green, nothing on the screen at all (black) and the computer just powers off after 5-10 seconds.
From reading on here I suggested taking the RAM out and trying each one in slot 1, one at a time. He did so and it did not help matters.
I told him to reset the cmos, he did this and still the same problem.
Any idea what may be wrong or where to search for the problem? He had made no hardware or software changes when it was running fine. He simply went into the bios by hitting del.
Thanks for any suggestions.
The fans,HD's do power on but the monitor light never goes green, nothing on the screen at all (black) and the computer just powers off after 5-10 seconds.
From reading on here I suggested taking the RAM out and trying each one in slot 1, one at a time. He did so and it did not help matters.
I told him to reset the cmos, he did this and still the same problem.
Any idea what may be wrong or where to search for the problem? He had made no hardware or software changes when it was running fine. He simply went into the bios by hitting del.
Thanks for any suggestions.