Re: Dead PC - Won't POST

Dr.Hal0nf1r£$ wrote:


Addendum: I switch on; all fans spin (3), HD light is constantly on, PC
speaker beeps once as normal, (Which suddenly leads me to think it might not
be the BIOS now - ?)DVD-RAM spins up and self-checks as usual, but no
visible POST, and just a flashing white hyphen top left of screen. HD light
still constantly on all the time - And so it stays in that state. Holding
the power button in eventually switches it off as usual. It seems the mobo
is functioning virtually normally... This gets more baffling as time goes
by: I'm going to sleep on it though, (Not on the computer itself; you know
what I mean :-) ) before it's time to get up again.

That sounds like it's hanging trying to identify a device on the IDE/SATA ports.

Disconnect all such devices and try to POST. If that works add each back, one at
a time, to try to identify the culprit. Most likely it's dead electronics in a
failed HD.

Also, remove all DVDs from your drives. I've sometimes found that a DVD drive
won't respond to POST/identify if it has a disk in it that the drive can't
correctly spin up and identify (I don't know what the internal DVD drive
firmware is doing, but it fails to load the disk and doesn't respond to
identify).

--
Nigel Wade
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