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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: sparkynufc on April 12, 2005, 09:14:19 AM

Title: Nothing Works
Post by: sparkynufc on April 12, 2005, 09:14:19 AM

Hi everyone,
I hope you can help me, I appear to have a very serious problem.
When I turn on my computer all that happens is the makers name appears on screen and that's it, it gets stuck there. I doesn't boot and the power doesn't come through to my keyboard

Please Help

Title: Re: Nothing Works
Post by: sparkynufc on April 12, 2005, 10:46:22 AM

Any ideas?

Title: Re: Nothing Works
Post by: Flame on April 12, 2005, 12:54:05 PM

Does the computer just shut down when you get the the manufacturer information stage, or does it just freeze? Any beeping noises? Also, have you installed any new hardware/software prior to this incident?

[glb]Flame[/glb]

Title: Re: Nothing Works
Post by: rs8389 on April 12, 2005, 06:32:25 PM

Hm.... My father's computer had a problem like that a while back.  In his case, I believe it got stuck because he had a USB 200GB external hard drive connected, and the boot priority was causing the computer to lock up, because it searched that drive...  If you have some recent hardware that you installed, maybe you can remove those and then go into BIOS and change some settings to accomodate the hardware you removed.

Hope this helped!