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Hard Drive Light Stay On
Name: vf78ot Date: February 28, 2006 at 08:58:45 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon XP / 256 DDR Product: Custom Build
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I have a computer that I am working on, when I turn the power on, the hard drive light stays on but nothing loads on the screen it stays completely black. I have re-seated the memory, power, CPU, and I have un-plugged the Hard Drive and tried to post with it unplugged from power and the IDE but still nothing! I then un plugged everything and took out the modem and tried to post the system, but still nothing. Could it be a bad MB or bad power supply?
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