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computer wont boot
Name: Roger Date: September 18, 2002 at 06:55:35 Pacific OS: windows98 CPU/Ram: celeron400mhz/96 megs ram
Comment:
computer sounds like its starting up but stops after a few seconds, monitor is blank. I tried different monitor with no luck. It has onboard video so I put in a card, no luck. sometimes it will boot up and works fine, I had it on for 2 hours last night but when I shut it down it would not boot back up even after sitting off for an hour. This morning it came on fine, I shut it down after 2 minutes and it would not boot, the computer sounds like it is starting but then after about 10 seconds no more action and the monitor is blank the whole time, you can hear the fans running and the drives spinning but thats it. Any ideas what
Name: Bill Date: September 18, 2002 at 09:41:48 Pacific
Reply:
I had a computer that did the same thing and it turned out to be a bad motherboard. How many beeps do you hear when the machine is booting?
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Response Number 2
Name: david Date: September 18, 2002 at 10:51:28 Pacific
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RaNdOM startups usaully points to a powersupply going south http://www.ontrack.com/hardwareinfo/startup.asp your motherboard battery could be going out to only $ 4.00 for that try http://www.ontrack.com/hardwareinfo/startup.asp
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Response Number 3
Name: david Date: September 18, 2002 at 10:54:09 Pacific
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opps sorry double copy and paste for that website http://www.pcmech.com/show/motherboards/80/
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Response Number 4
Name: marc baker Date: September 20, 2002 at 14:42:33 Pacific
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I had the same problem.My friend checked all the sectors on my hard disk with another pc and he said that the problem was from the motherboard.when I start the pc now it asks me for a bootdisk,so i put it in and it tells me invalid system disk.Please someone help me,im on the verge of throwing this thing out the window.
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