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Alflex · 02-02-2005, 09:44 PM

I installed Win XP Pro, and things were going fine, I then plugged in my ThumbDrive before the PC started and the computer would not boot up.

1.4 AMD Athlon, 512MB Ram, 60 GB Hard Drive and teh backup was 15GB, along with a DVD reader and a Cd Writer. The Video card is on board, so I cant check that.

I recently installed a second hard drive to the computer to back up my school work and important documents, and my CD-RW stopped working on me so I got a new one, and used a Y connection splitter for the second hard drive.

It all worked fine for a week or so, The fans were running and the temperature was at a stable level. Then one day I turned the computer on with my USB Thumbdrive still in it insead of booting up and putting the thumbdrive in, I thought it could read it all while booting up. I have used this thumbdrive before on this same computrer and it all worked out fine.

To my disbelief, the computer just stopped working on me from then on, no beeps at all, not a one, it will show that power is running to the CD drives and then the orange and green lights will stay on but then nothing after that.

It does not boot up at all and does not go through the bios, it just gives me a black screen. I tried taking out the USB thumdrive, restarting the computer and still nothing, so I tried taking out the slave hard drive and keeping only the master in, but nothing, I tried the other hard disk and still nothing, so I took off the Cd drives as well and still nothing.

I took off the data cables and reinserted them and still nothing, I took off the power supply to the other drives and let only the hard drive on and still nothing.

The only thing I havent tried was the CMOS/ Bios battery, if there is anyone who can actually help me, Please Do.

Not sure what else to try over here and I have been through all the differnt configurations I could think off.

Any Advice would be greatly appreciated.

02-02-2005, 09:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Alflex Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2 OS: Win XP	Computer will not Boot up At all!!!!after trying a thumbdrive???? I installed Win XP Pro, and things were going fine, I then plugged in my ThumbDrive before the PC started and the computer would not boot up. 1.4 AMD Athlon, 512MB Ram, 60 GB Hard Drive and teh backup was 15GB, along with a DVD reader and a Cd Writer. The Video card is on board, so I cant check that. I recently installed a second hard drive to the computer to back up my school work and important documents, and my CD-RW stopped working on me so I got a new one, and used a Y connection splitter for the second hard drive. It all worked fine for a week or so, The fans were running and the temperature was at a stable level. Then one day I turned the computer on with my USB Thumbdrive still in it insead of booting up and putting the thumbdrive in, I thought it could read it all while booting up. I have used this thumbdrive before on this same computrer and it all worked out fine. To my disbelief, the computer just stopped working on me from then on, no beeps at all, not a one, it will show that power is running to the CD drives and then the orange and green lights will stay on but then nothing after that. It does not boot up at all and does not go through the bios, it just gives me a black screen. I tried taking out the USB thumdrive, restarting the computer and still nothing, so I tried taking out the slave hard drive and keeping only the master in, but nothing, I tried the other hard disk and still nothing, so I took off the Cd drives as well and still nothing. I took off the data cables and reinserted them and still nothing, I took off the power supply to the other drives and let only the hard drive on and still nothing. The only thing I havent tried was the CMOS/ Bios battery, if there is anyone who can actually help me, Please Do. Not sure what else to try over here and I have been through all the differnt configurations I could think off. Any Advice would be greatly appreciated.