PC won't Boot up

[Guest Randy K.]

I can not get my PC to come on or boot up. Sunday morning there was a update

from Mircosoft in the corner by my clock. I grabbed my mouse to click on it

and my PC was froze. So I pushed the ON button and held it tell the PC went

off. I waited a few secs. and hit the button again. The Light comes on and

the small light under it comes on solid (does not blink). But that's it.

Screen does not come on at all. Any help would be gratful. Thanks.

[Guest Malke]

Re: PC won't Boot up

 

Randy K. wrote:

> I can not get my PC to come on or boot up. Sunday morning there was a

> update from Mircosoft in the corner by my clock. I grabbed my mouse to

> click on it and my PC was froze. So I pushed the ON button and held it

> tell the PC went off. I waited a few secs. and hit the button again. The

> Light comes on and the small light under it comes on solid (does not

> blink). But that's it. Screen does not come on at all. Any help would be

> gratful. Thanks.

 

Sounds like your hard drive just died. It could certainly be other

components, but I'd start the troubleshooting with the drive.

 

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

 

Standard disclaimer: I can't see and test your computer myself, so these are

just suggestions based on many years of being a professional computer tech;

suggestions based on what you've written. You should not take my

suggestions as a definitive diagnosis. Testing hardware failures often

involves swapping out suspected parts with known-good parts. If you can't

do the testing yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer,

take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local

equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your data

backed up before you take the machine into a shop.

 

Malke

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[Guest Dave Cohen]

Re: PC won't Boot up

 

Malke wrote:

> Randy K. wrote:

>

>> I can not get my PC to come on or boot up. Sunday morning there was a

>> update from Mircosoft in the corner by my clock. I grabbed my mouse to

>> click on it and my PC was froze. So I pushed the ON button and held it

>> tell the PC went off. I waited a few secs. and hit the button again. The

>> Light comes on and the small light under it comes on solid (does not

>> blink). But that's it. Screen does not come on at all. Any help would be

>> gratful. Thanks.

>

> Sounds like your hard drive just died. It could certainly be other

> components, but I'd start the troubleshooting with the drive.

>

> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

>

> Standard disclaimer: I can't see and test your computer myself, so these are

> just suggestions based on many years of being a professional computer tech;

> suggestions based on what you've written. You should not take my

> suggestions as a definitive diagnosis. Testing hardware failures often

> involves swapping out suspected parts with known-good parts. If you can't

> do the testing yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer,

> take the machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local

> equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). If possible, have all your data

> backed up before you take the machine into a shop.

>

> Malke

 

I would try booting from something else. Don't know what you have. If

you have a floppy drive a bootable floppy is easiest. Else try a

bootable cd. Note: you may have to check boot order in bios and fix if

necessary. If you can make a Bart PE winxp from a working machine that's

ideal since it will recognize the nt file system on your hd so you can

check hd.

Dave Cohen

Dave Cohen

[Guest sgopus]

RE: PC won't Boot up

 

if you see nothing at all when you boot, then it wouldn't be the HD, I would

aim towards A memory chip went south, and or possibly your motherboard died.

 

can you verify your cooling fans are coming on?

if not then your powersupply could be the culprit.

if the fans work, then focus on Ram chips, if you have more than one, remove

all but one, if no joy, replace that one with a different one, and so on to

narrow down the issue, if only one, I suggest you take it to a GOOD repair

shop.

 

"Randy K." wrote:

> I can not get my PC to come on or boot up. Sunday morning there was a update

> from Mircosoft in the corner by my clock. I grabbed my mouse to click on it

> and my PC was froze. So I pushed the ON button and held it tell the PC went

> off. I waited a few secs. and hit the button again. The Light comes on and

> the small light under it comes on solid (does not blink). But that's it.

> Screen does not come on at all. Any help would be gratful. Thanks.