EMERGENCY PROBLEM: Starting filePro

[Clay Brown]

A lot of the pcs I've had that just freeze up like that and then won't boot
its normally one of two things that get it back up for me. 1) if a videocard
is installed reseat it 2) reseat the simm chips memory. I've also taken the
parts above out and cleaned them with a pencil eraser on the contacts at the
edge of the card both sides  and placed them back in the pc and normally
boots ok.
Just my 2 cents

Clay

On Mar 1, 2011 10:16 AM, "John Sica" <john at chrismanncomputer.com> wrote:

1. No power when turned on...    Power supply
2. If power turns on and can't get into BIOS (ie "F2" "F10" or
"DEL"...    Main Board
3. Can get into bios, but bios can't see hard drive...  Hard drive
doesn't turn on... Probably dead hard drive
4. BIOS can see hard drive, but still screen doesn't come on, even in
safe mode...  Could be video controller, or,  lost OS on hard drive,
(but bios would tell you that).  You could try a windows repair at this
point, but I'd go to #5 first
5. Unplug every usb device from main board in case the bios is trying to
boot from an attached USB device.
6. Remove the hard drive and place in another computer to see if the
working OS can see the file system... No file system or hard drive, then
it's gone.
7. If the OS can read the file system, then you could perform a windows
repair on the original system, if the Windows can see the file system
and allows it.

Just some things to go on, but try #5 first if you haven't already, this
has worked several times for me.

John






On 3/1/2011 8:11 AM, Art Moore wrote:
> If there are any thoughts on how the system I "think" ...
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