thanks for responding
A friend of mine wanted to hook up her laptop to my printer so she could print something out. It was fairly simple , so I let her do it. I left the room and when I came back, she told me that my pc stopped working.
When I turned pc on , it started making weird beeping noises ( with 2-3 sec intervals) . On top of that my monitor was unresponsive ( the speakers were working and the power on). So I thought, strange, it was working fine before, she must have pulled something or moved something from the back ofthe system unit. I pressed the power button on and off 5 or 6 times thinking that the beeping would just go away.
I went online to find more info and basically the material I came across suggested that I most likely I had a 1) hardware failure 2) dirty fans 3) overheating 4) loose ram/ video card .. and that most likely I needed to boot from start up disk and reinstall windows
.. So I stumbled upon this site and I read somewhere tthat the keyboard or monitor could be casuing the beeping sound( my pc probably was unable to recognize either , so that is why it started beeping) . So I re connected everything( making sure nothing was loose), moved the sytem unit to a more spacious area ( I did this while the it was off). Then when I turned it back on, everything went back to normal.
My new problem started when I decided to reconnect the dsl lines to the system unit . I thought everything would be fine ( I make sure the cords running through the back were not tangled etc..) but when I turned my pc on again, the beeping resumed ( and blank screen came back). I used power button to restart comp 3 times , then something flashed on my monitor " keyboard error , unrecognizable " something along those lines. So I turned pc off to make sure my keyboard adapter was firmly in place( and the monitor as well), then when I pressed the power button on, it still kept on beeping. I reconnected keyboard adapter like in 6-7 cycles turning pc off and on and still beeping.
That is when I pressed the power button off, the green light just didn't go away even when I stopped pressing, so I had to hold it down for 3-5 seconds longer until pc was completely shut off. When I tried to turn it back on, it wouldn't. And so, I don't know how to restore power button function., Infact, I don't even know what happened, did I shock comp? will it ever work again? pls. help if you can .l thanks.
btw my pc is 5 years old, i haven't upgraded hardware. I use it for very simple purposes, no gaming or media editing whatsoever. The worst thing that happened prior to this was when I got some viruses and spyware from p2p networks but I cleaned those up already.
