Hi,
I would really appreciate some help/advice with the following, as I`m pretty much at my wits end:
I attempted to install a second harddrive into my pc, something which I`ve done before in other pcs without too much trouble. After swapping the order of the four drives (two hdds, plus a cdrom and a cdrw) around till they all were seen by windows, and in the order that I wanted, I turned the pc off (cant quite remember why, it was over a week ago), went and ate. When I switched it back on it wouldn`t boot, so I got the cmos screen up, and checked that everything looked as it should. It did, so I tried booting again, and it would hang each time, the only way I could get out of the hang was to pull the plug out. So I did this maybe a dozen times, then had the "bright" idea of resetting the cmos jumper on the mobo. Nothing drastic happened, good or bad, so I reset the clock/date made sure the hdd settings were set to "auto", and then exited. It hung again, so I pulled the plug, and then Nothing. The fan comes on, and the light, but that`s it. I have an AOC monitor that turns itself off onto standby mode if it dosn`t get a signal, which is what happens when I plug it in now. I`ve tried disconnecting all drives and just running it with ram, and graphics (it`s onboard, not a seperate card), but still the monitor switches to standby, giving a "no signal or cable disconnected" message first. There`s no beeps, no floppy boot if I connect the floppy. Just the light and fan.
So, I desperately needed to check my email, so I got my older, slower pc, that I never use and plugged that in the monitor for a few days, while I tried to look up some advice as to what might be wrong.
Then, yesterday, I read on a techrescue.net forum that someone with a similar problem was being advised to try some different ram, in case the chips had blown. So I took the ram from the working, older pc, and tried it in my main, not working one. Didn`t make a difference, and when I put the ram back in the older pc, I now get the same responce from the monitor on this one too! :-( (although the hdd makes some reasuring noises on this one still).
I`m now down to my last pc, an old barely functioning laptop, with a broken cdrom, and a dodgy floppy. But obviously (and thankfully) the modem works.
I`m disabled, hardly ever get out of the house, and my pc is, quite litterally, my lifeline. If anybody can get me out of this mess I will be eternally grateful to them.
Mark
I would really appreciate some help/advice with the following, as I`m pretty much at my wits end:
I attempted to install a second harddrive into my pc, something which I`ve done before in other pcs without too much trouble. After swapping the order of the four drives (two hdds, plus a cdrom and a cdrw) around till they all were seen by windows, and in the order that I wanted, I turned the pc off (cant quite remember why, it was over a week ago), went and ate. When I switched it back on it wouldn`t boot, so I got the cmos screen up, and checked that everything looked as it should. It did, so I tried booting again, and it would hang each time, the only way I could get out of the hang was to pull the plug out. So I did this maybe a dozen times, then had the "bright" idea of resetting the cmos jumper on the mobo. Nothing drastic happened, good or bad, so I reset the clock/date made sure the hdd settings were set to "auto", and then exited. It hung again, so I pulled the plug, and then Nothing. The fan comes on, and the light, but that`s it. I have an AOC monitor that turns itself off onto standby mode if it dosn`t get a signal, which is what happens when I plug it in now. I`ve tried disconnecting all drives and just running it with ram, and graphics (it`s onboard, not a seperate card), but still the monitor switches to standby, giving a "no signal or cable disconnected" message first. There`s no beeps, no floppy boot if I connect the floppy. Just the light and fan.
So, I desperately needed to check my email, so I got my older, slower pc, that I never use and plugged that in the monitor for a few days, while I tried to look up some advice as to what might be wrong.
Then, yesterday, I read on a techrescue.net forum that someone with a similar problem was being advised to try some different ram, in case the chips had blown. So I took the ram from the working, older pc, and tried it in my main, not working one. Didn`t make a difference, and when I put the ram back in the older pc, I now get the same responce from the monitor on this one too! :-( (although the hdd makes some reasuring noises on this one still).
I`m now down to my last pc, an old barely functioning laptop, with a broken cdrom, and a dodgy floppy. But obviously (and thankfully) the modem works.
I`m disabled, hardly ever get out of the house, and my pc is, quite litterally, my lifeline. If anybody can get me out of this mess I will be eternally grateful to them.
Mark