I turned on my computer the other day and it got stuck at "Detecting IDE Drives..." I then proceeded to unplug both ide drives and restart my computer so I could get into the BIOS. Once in I connected the master hard drive to IDE 1 and then tried to search for it in the BIOS. The computer just froze up until I unplugged the hard drive from IDE 1. So I let it be for a day, and now I turn it on and it wont even display a picture on the monitior. I have made sure that all connections are made and that power is going to everything. I have also made sure the jumpers are set right. I cant think of anything else it could be. Any help would be great! Thanks!

well this may not work but it may lol. I'd take the board out and just start building the machine over. This is prob not the correct thing to do but I have had luck just starting over. good luck

More than likely you have a corrupt BIOS. Here is what you can try. 1. Remove the power cord from the back of the computer. 2. If the Motherboard is an ATX there will be an LED on the board somewhere. Watch this LED until it goes out. 3. Locate the CMOS battery and remove it. 4. Check the jumpers on the MB and/or look for a push button switch for resetting the CMOS. If you find these either move the jumper or push the button and hold for one minute. If you do not see a reset switch, (WITH THE BATTERY REMOVED) short the two battery connections for one minute. 5. Remove all the cards, RAM, Processor and reseat them carefully. Do the same for the power and device cables for good measure. For now, leave ALL drives diconnected (floppy, hard, and CD/DVD-Rom). 6. Replace the battery and power cable and boot the system. If the system boots, go into BIOS and locate the RESET TO FACTORY STANDARDS (or whatever is the equiv.) and reboot. 7. Power down the system after the reboot and disconnect the AC power cable from the power supply. Attempt to power on the system to speed the discharge the power supply. 8. Connect ONLY the floppy drive or BOOT drive as Master and watch CMOS; it should detect the drives. Slowly rebuild the system, step by step, until everything gets put back in. If you get a failure after one of the steps, disconnect this device and leave it to last to install. If the failure happens with this device, you have found the bad component. If you have problems at POST with all devices disconnected and CMOS cleared, try one stick of RAM at a time. If you have BEEP CODES during power up, note the sequence of LONG SHORT beeps and check the manufacturer's web site for what the beep codes mean.