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problem solved thanks for the help........it was the VGA cable just needed a good tighten up and the reason I had no POST beep was because I'd forgot to connect the speaker.......derrrrr lol. Anyway its up and running now so once again thanks for the help and for replying to such an obvious half wit lol

Haven't changed BIOS, I haven't got that far as nothing starts up, monitor is ok as it works on my other pc and cable seems to be secured ok. As I said I'm not even getting the beep on POST or any combinations of beeps. I'm stumped lol

I forgot to add it is a Biostar GF8200C M2+ motherboard with an AMD AM3 240 x 2 DUAL CORE AM3 PROCESSOR with 2Gb DDR2 RAM

Hi all I have just built a new pc but when I switched it on there was no POST, processor and system fans are working and keyboard lights flashed as did DVD ROM but no POST and monitor didn't turn on.......can anyone help ?.....do I need to clear CMOS ? Regards Harry

Hi all, thanks for all your help, just an update, I did a re-install and all is ok now. Lost all my files of course so that'll teach me to back stuff up lol. Thanks again to everyone for advice

Hi Randy I'm afraid the fixmbr didn't work either. thanks for the sticky re: information, sorry but I'm not that clued up on pc's lol here's some more info on our system: Dell System DV051 BIOS Ver 1.10 A03 (10/08/05) IE7 ver 7.0.5730.13 Windows Firewall AVG free antivirus P2P Limewire No new programs or hardware installed recently

Its a Dell Dimension 3100, don't know what cable as it was a complete system purchase but we have had it over a year and had no trouble till now. Didn't know about fixmbr option I'll try that now, thanks.

Well I got it to boot from my disc and did chkdsk /r in recovery console but when I tried to restart still got the same blue screen with UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME message again I also tried using the fixboot command as instructed on microsoft help. Before rebooting I set boot device priority back to original setting and selected start windows normally, was this the correct action ?

I dont have an XP disc as the OS came pre- loaded, I do have another XP disc that is loaded on this pc, would I be able to boot from that ? I did try using it but no luck, maybe I missed something?

Hi there, I'm having a problem starting Windows XP home, as it loads a blue screen appears with the error message 'UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME' I've tried restarting several times and tried to restart in safe mode but am getting the same thing. Any ideas would be gratefully received. Thanks.