I have an old 1998 IBM Aptiva, 300 mhz AMD K56, 128 meg RAM, CD-ROM drive and floppy drive, running Win 98. The computer starts, the Aptiva screen is displayed but Windows will not load. I have tried ctrl-alt-delete, no respose. I have unplugged mouse and modem, no response. I have checked all connections, inside and out, all seem seated and firm. I do not have a "boot disk" per say, what came with this is called a "recovery and diagnostics" disk, that will not start either. The only time I got a different screen was when I unplugged the keyboard, I got "memory good" and an error message that said " Ps2 keyboard has an error or is not connected". The computer of course is not under any kind of warrenty any more so it would be a waste of time and breath to try to contact IBM, it would be a waste even if it was under warrenty. This is such a simple computer compared to todays computers, I cannot understand what could have gone wrong as it has been sitting for nearly a year, and yes, it has been cleaned. Any one have any ideas on what I could try next? I am certainly no computer expert, but I do have some working knowledge if suggestions are told to me in plain english and not computer speak lol. Hope someone can help and thank you very much. LadyGrey
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