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Computer won’t start, no action at all.
LockedThe simple version of my problem. My computer won’t start. No POST, nothing. I even removed the RAM and it doesn’t even beep maddly, it just sits there.
Powering it up it does get power to the NIC and the CD drive. Even the HDD spins up. But it won’t go anywhere.
So, when and how this happened:
Basically, we blew a fuse in the house. It shut down the computer.
I immediatly turned the power switch on the computer to off and turned off the power bar.
When I got the power back up, I turned the computer back on.
And it booted up, went to scan disk, found the usual problems with apache logs and disk size incorrect, but when I got to the disk size incorrect, it displayed the message asking if I wanted to fix it. But when I tried to press enter, it wouldn’t accept it. I tried Control + ALt + delete, nothing.
So I hit the reset button. It never booted back up, it just sits there with the fans going. Occasionally there is some static coming out of the speakers.I had this once on a newer machine and the solution was to reset the CMOS, I tried that with this machine, first simply removing the battery, nothing. Then tried jumper 2 to the reset setting (as said in manual), nothing.
How can I fix this, my replacement server is a Windows 98, that failed my bet, I bet that it would last 3 days, it only lasted half a day before it auto restarted itself and got hung while shutting down. So I really want my old server back up and running.
The machine is currently sitting stripped down, no HDD’s, an old stick of 64mb RAM, CD drives removed. Still no action out of it. (Everything moved to the 98 machine, HDD works fine in there)
Help?