Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Shreveport, LA
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last night, i moved a bunch of furniture and such. not a problem, that. but in the process, i also moved my desktop about 5 feet. i don't think i jarred anything, and i unplugged everything first, but now it won't boot. press the power button, and i get the splashscreen on the bios. won't post. doesn't even try, actually. i plan to get inside the box this afternoon after work, to see if anything may be loose in its slot or whatever, but....any ideas?

again, for clarity:

on powerup, the stupid white screen with first international computing's logo on it comes up, and doesn't go away like it should.

one of the dvd drives' seek light comes on and stays steady.

all fans appear to be functioning.

everything is plugged in properly on the back side of the box.


.......ideas?

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Registered: Sep 2001
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Try moving it back to where it was.

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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: At Home
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Microsoft has really started to tighten the licensing on their products, the built-in GPS has detected an unauthorised move and you will have to buy a new copy of the OS as well as attending a 25 day MCP training regiment.

FedEx skalie a wet-slap, it may not help your PC issue but it will make you feel a great deal better.

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Registered: Aug 2001
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did something become loose on the inside?

cheers
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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Hilbert Space
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My guess would be that the drive is screwed. Or badly connected.

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Yeah, check the HD connection first thing, or check the BIOS is recognising the HD is there.

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open it up and make sure everything's properly seated, then pray to aaliyah.

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In what way would beautiful singer AALIYAH best my computer fix?

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press tab or escape and see what bios says. if it says "no os found" then hd has probably been disconnected.

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Tape a picture of a naked asian chick to your screen.

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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: Shreveport, LA
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i got the case open, and blew/vacuumed a bunch of dust out, checked the connection on various everything. check all the connections. put it all back together, crossed my fingers, and hit the button. same thing. crap.

then i stopped to think what was different and recent, which led me to unplug the external hard drive. bada-bing-bang-BOOT! why the fuck would an object on the usb bus keep the machine from coming up? i don't know.

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welcome to the wonderfull world of external USB hard drives

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Registered: Jan 2001
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No idea, mine has never done that.

Then again, I'm more likely to plug it into the pocket pc these days anyways.

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Registered: Jul 2001
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Originally posted by SatansLeftHand
why the fuck would an object on the usb bus keep the machine from coming up? i don't know.

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Did you actually go into the BIOS and check to see that the BIOS was picking up all drives, cpu, memory, etc.?

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Registered: Aug 2001
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It's USB legacy support that caused an issue for me, SLH, which I fixed in the BIOS. In my case, it was the keyboard that wasn't working (machine was a Dell and I was installing Fedora Core 2).

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