Computer Wont Start

What point does it get to?

I know something similier happened to me last week aswell. It would boot only to a certain part and freeze. I was told to unplug the wires from my hard drive, and plug them back in. Thats what I did, and i've been up and running since. I don't know if that helps......Good luck.

It would be useful to know what operating system/service pack you're running. Have you tried to boot into safe mode? Its possible a corrupt driver may be causing your problem. Booting into safe mode forces the machine to skip loading all but essential drivers and services.

To boot into safe mode from the power-off state, turn the machine on, then begin incessantly tapping the F8 key. Eventually, you should be presented with the boot menu; use either your number keys or your up-down arrows to select "Safe Mode", hit <ENTER>, and see what happens. It may take a while to boot, you may see a buncha black-and-white text scrolling by before anything else happens, and if it does boot successfully into safe mode, your desktop will look funny - thats all cool. If it gets that far, just shut it down again, and get back to us; we can prolly go from there and get you sorted out relatively simply - relatively, of course, being a pretty relative term when applied to Windows

If the machine will not boot into safe mode, odds are its up for a trip to the repair shop, unless you're comfortable with the idea of opening it up yourself and poking around inside it.


Oh, one thing you might want to try would be to see what happens if, while the machine is not powered on, you disconnect ALL peripherals, including any network interface, then power it on and see what happens when you try to boot with ONLY the monitor, mouse, and keyboard connected. Give that a shot too, and let us know the result.

We need more details, megallon. Do the power lights come on? Do you see anything on the screen? Error messages or beeps?

I've been to more than a few calls where all I had to do was push the power cord back in....

Good point, DD - troubleshooting tip #1 is to verify the appliance in question is correctly connected to an appropriate, live power source

And how they scream when you ask the question...

Re: Computer Wont Start


This happened to my computer this summer. Dyslexia came over and fiddled with everything for an hour before he had a brilliant idea. He just unpluged the damn thing, plugged it in again, and the computer came to life.

BBB

Yeah, and ya just gotta love it when, after being convinced to check and verify, they come back with "Oh .... How about that! Well, thanks, sorry to have bothered you."

My other favorite is, "Any new software installed?"

"No."

"Download anything from the Internet?"

"Well, there was this poker program...."

Don't forget "Just music, like always"

update
im running win xp

i have tried disconnecting everything leaving just my mouse, keyboard, and monitor attached and still get nothing. all i get is the cpu fan running

Bummer - I assume you tried a safe boot as well, and that it won't even boot into safe mode, huh?

When you power it on, are there any "beeps",- and, if so, what "beep" or "beeps" are there - number, duration, and sequence?

Also,when it is 1st powered on is there any screen display at all? If so, what is the display?


Finally, when it powers on, does the hard drive activity LED (usually close to the power switch - but not always) flicker or blink at all?

Where you overclocking? or have you recently changed anything in the bios?

If so it might help to clear the bios. Answer Timber's questions before you take that step unless the answer is yes to the above questions.