On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 12:26 +1200, Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Hello,
On wednesday night, I was happily using my computer and playing around with some wengophone software. At the end of the evening I shut my machine down.
On Thurday lunch time, I went home for lunch and thought I'd fire up my machine to play with the wengophone software somemore.
The Nvidia BIOS flashed on the screen and then nothing further came up on screen. I waited a while and still nothing more.
I held in the Power button until the machine switched off and restarted it again. Same result except I noticed the harddrive light was fluttering away.
So I switched it off and tried booting a knoppix CD. No result.
So I disconnected the power supply to the second harddrive thinking maybe there was some argument between the harddrive and tried starting again. The first harddrive contains the master boot record.
This time, still get the Nvidia BIOS notice but still doesn't boot but this time no harddrive light persistently fluttering.
So, I am running out of options.
Bascially, the computer doesn't seem to get to the BIOS screen but I am not sure what I can do about that. I had moved the computer or changed any of the power requirements.
Is the motherboard stuffed? Is the BIOS stuffed?
Any thoughts or recommendations etc.
Chris
Usually when I attempt hardware troubleshooting of this kind I start by disconnecting all devices, periphials incl video card, keyboard and mouse (it'll give the appropriate beep code when it can't find the video card). Leave RAM in Boot up and see if it gives the no vid card found beeps (can't remember them off the top of my head - anyone?) Then one by one reconnect everything starting with video. Hopefully this will narrow down the cause Jodi
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