Alflex

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.

dai

have you or can you borrow another power supply to swap in

johnwill

FWIW, I recently killed an ABIT IC7-G MB by plugging in an MP3 player. I don't know what happened, and I had plugged the same player in before, but that time the system froze and it never booted again. In my case, it would go through the BIOS, even recognize that two drives were in my RAID array, but it couldn't boot anything, floppy, CD, or hard disks. ABIT sent me a replacement, and I'm back on-line.

sevenka

there's answer in this link ===> www.scomputer_booting_.at_i.com

johnwill

Rather than send folks to another site, why don't you just tell us the answer? I suspect most of the users are going to have a real tough time reading that site, suggesting that's an answer is pretty lame. In case you haven't figured it out, most folks here probably speak English, not Polish!

feddup

I'm sure people have looked into this but when I installed an Iaudio M3 MP3 player on my system the BIOS began trying to boot from it. Apperently AMI BIOSs redetect hard drives on boot up. I guess this would be handy at times but it put me down for about four hours until I discovered that my new hard drive (MP3 player) had somehow become first in the boot order. I doubt that's the first poster's problem since mine gave me a can't find OS message. I sometimes find it unpleasant when my PC gets "creative and helpful". Hope this helps.