Re: PC died

Dustie wrote:
Hope someone can help me - my PC has gone completely kaput on me. It was
working fine one minute and then I did a restart and it booted up to Windows
then locked solid. I rebooted it again and now absolutely nothing happens.
The screen remains black. The CD drives have the lights on. I tried a
spare graphics card but it makes no difference at all. The monitor is
working fine as I'm using it right now on my backup PC.

sorry to be so vague - any idea where I could start...?


Since you have tried everything else suggested, try clearing the CMOS (your motherboard manual will tell you how- online if you don't have a hard copy) and checking (or just replacing the battery- they're cheap). Clearing the CMOS will the reset the BIOS to default settings. The motherboard manual should also have instructions on configuring the BIOS (date, time, optimized system settings).
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Replacing the CMOS battery
    ... Look at the current settings in the BIOS. ... THEN try whatever you wish in the way of a program that saves the settings. ... Change your CMOS battery. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
  • Re: Startup problems
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    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
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    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
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