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Start by swapping the monitor onto the other system.

If the monitor works fine, then you have either a bad video card, or problems with the motherboard.

You can try re-seating the video card and RAM modules, but I suspect some hardware on the motherboard has died.

The activity from the drives is their self test running.

Chas

Check your BIOS to see if is reading your HD.
Or try F8 to safe mode,then try last restore point.

I Check your BIOS to see if is reading your HD.
AND try F8 to safe mode, But it just Hangs up there where the cursor is flashing.
READ THE NOT AGAIN.

You are getting a blinking cursor in the upper corner... your monitor is working. Another hdd does the same thing in this system. Your hdd works fine on another system.

Open your computer and one-by-one, remove and reseat each of the daughterboard cards in your computer. Do the same with RAM. Make sure all cables and connectors are attached and that there are no loose connectors or cables.

The fact that your hdd works in another system, is pointing to a systemboard problem. But I've seen POSTs get to the point you describe with memory reseating, resolving the problem. Give it a try... else look at systemboard replacement costs.

Instead of F8 try F5 to by-pass all startup configurations. If F5 works then rem out all config.sys settings then start adding them back one by one and note the reactions.

I have had some systems where the CPU was bad. When changing to start boot process system hung.

Another one is a BAD FLOPPY DRIVE OR PORT if floppy drive light remains on this could be a possibility.

Other things to check -
BIOS settings have system reset configuration in BIOS.
If BIOS is set as Plug and Play aware OS change it or vice versa.

As far as hardware goes if you received any video at bootup I would start checking RAM (Video as well as System RAM).

Run the system bios and if available use the autodetect feature for the hard drive. I've had this problem before when the drive isn't set up correctly.

What size drive is it? Since it's only a 133 MHz CPU the drive may not be suppoted.

You diidn't mention if the drives were set up as masters with or without slaves attached. To troubleshoot don't connect the cdrom drive to the same cable as the hard drive.

If it's a western digital and on some other drives the jumper for master with a slave can cause this if there's no slave attached or vice versa.

To test you can remove the drive from the system and bios and see if it boots to a floppy disk.

Follow the advice about removing all cards accept video and see what happens. If it boots try reinstalling the cards one at a time and hopefully the problem can be isolated.

start by unpluging your pc. and opening it,
them remove the ram them set it back.
your hdd is good,but,check master/slave settings.
also check on your devices manager for any conflic.

Here's a plagerized answer from Maxwell on the order of things running. It should help you figure where the system hangs at and therfore whatthe problem is. He wrote

"well, here's a run down on the POST.
Power on,
Chipset initialization,
memory test,
BIOS to RAM,
Keyboard initialization[keyboard lights go on then off],
VGA BIOS,
Processor initialization,
Real Time Clock,
Test Video interface,
BIOS sign on,
Test Base and Extend Memory,
Assign Resources to ISA,
Initialze Hard Drive,
Initialize Floppy drive,
Boot attempt to read boot master boot code,
then off to O/S boot."

Some other things you can do is hit the when the graphics pop up to see what is initialized behind the screen and see where in the process you have passed, that leaves either the last process failed or the next process is not initiating and there's the problem to be fixed.
Good Luck

Have you made any changes to your hardware?

The symptom you're showing is often related to TWO master drives on the same channel. Check your CD-ROM or other IDE device on the same ribbon cable as the hard drive and make sure it is set to SLAVE.
Cheers

TrubbleMaker

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