EMERGENCY PROBLEM: Starting filePro

[Brian K. White]

Never ever use any kind of eraser on electrical contacts!

Bad advice is worse than no advice.

"I'm just trying to help" is absolutely no argument or excuse.
It may sound virtuous and therefore undeserving of a harsh reaction like 
this, but "I'm just trying to help" reduce the number of people who not 
only unwittingly damage their own things, but go on to forward the 
recommendation to yet more people to damage their things.

-- 
bkw

On 3/1/2011 11:23 AM, Clay Brown wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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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