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Recently I've installed a new piece of software which required a restart. Upon restarting the computer failed to post and now just sits on the MoBo logo screen. I've tried pulling the cmos battery and reinserting it, and pulling out each stick of RAM and starting it with only one in (to eliminate a dead stick) all to no avail. All the fans and everything turn on, it just stops at the MB logo screen. Not sure where to go from here.
Do you have any USB devices plugged in? If so try unplugging them and try again. Occasionally there are some USB devices that wont start from cold. They have to have fully functioning operating system.
Stuart
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no USB devices. The computer was working fine until this restart. The only change was I installed a new piece of software and restarted. No new hardware, nothing plugged in.
Oh and I forgot to add, the computer beeps one short beep and then gets stuck. usually it beeps one short beep into the logo screen, then one short beep out of the logo screen.
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ok...realised I had my USB printer plugged in. Unplugged and all seemed to start normal. Went into the bios to restore the settings (since I previously reset them) and my only option is to boot from my Floppy drive. It doesn't even see my HDD or CD drive. Of course because of this it won't boot now
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What was this software?
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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It was a game which I have since installed on another computer (without internet) and it works ok. The game did have the starforce copyright protection associated with it. Not sure if that would affect anything.
Game is called "Emergency Fire Response"
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Bios doesn't see cd or hd?
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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Both req 12 and 5 volt. Got a volt meter? With the power on test the red and yellow leads on 1 of the 4 pin molex connectors. If you don't have both the 1 of your psu rails died.
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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Problem Solved. Sort of.
Turns out after resetting the CMOS I had to re-enable the SATA controller from the BIOS. After doing that, HDD is booting and working, but It still doesn't recognize my DVD-ROM
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Cd is eide or sata?
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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Is there an option to enable udma in your bios?
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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Sorrt was in the warehouse. Do you have a spare cd drive you can hook up? Just to test the eide channel? Does your cd drive lite up when you boot?
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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computers are funny. It works now, and all it was was bad settings. I had set bios to P-ATA+S-ATA and that got the HDD working. Turns out I needed to keep it at P-ATA Only and just change the option to keep S-ATA enabled. (Not sure if these settings are MB specific, so you may have no clue what I'm talking about)
But anyhow, it works like a champ again.
Thanks to all who responded.
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Good job.
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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You might look around and see if there a bios backup utility that supports your bios version (jic).
WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.
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