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On power on displays nothing
Name: Zachary Dillard Date: November 13, 2003 at 22:09:48 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Professional CPU/Ram: Pentium 166 MMX 64MB
Comment:
I'm having trouble with a computer I bought a auction. When I first bought the computer I turned it on and everything worked perfectly. I needed to but a CD-RW drive in it though. so I go through the trouble of pulling out and unplugging the hard drive and floppy so I can get to the current cd-rom drive and replace it with the burner but since its a desktop case I have to pop up and pull out the power supply (I didn't unplug anything attached to it) I replace the cd-rom drive and but everything back and then go to boot the computer power comes on but nothing displays (I can see that it is trying to read from the hard drive) but never gos any farther tried both using a different monitor and graphic card (On several of the PCI Slots) nothing I don't know what else to try
Name: Dave02 Date: November 13, 2003 at 23:23:08 Pacific
Reply:
Try putting the CDROM back in and see if it boots up. If it does, then go online and look for a BIOS update for that computer.
Good Luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: rich Date: November 14, 2003 at 11:48:32 Pacific
Reply:
I suggest disconnecting all the drives and trying it. You should get a display without any drives connected. You might have put a cable in upside down.
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Response Number 3
Name: Zachary Dillard Date: November 16, 2003 at 16:04:32 Pacific
Reply:
Tried all of that but it still Isn't working. Maybe I'll try the CPU next. Thanks for your help.
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