tbone328 said:
I fixed the overheating issue, i forgot to take the plastic cover on the
bottom of the cpu fan, but i'm still having the no start menu or anything at
startup issue
If you want some other things to try, you could try a "Live CD" version
of a Linux distribution. The purpose of that is two-fold.
1) You can watch as the computer boots the Linux CD, to see if there are
any error messages, such as broken motherboard hardware. Messages are
printed, as various subsystems are probed (storage, USB, Firewire and so
on).
2) Linux has the ability to mount a Windows hard drive. NTFS will probably
be mounted read-only, and I don't know if read/write is now possible or not.
FAT32 should be easier to do, so that should be read/write. You can look
at the files on the Windows hard drive, using Linux as the operating system.
In fact, the other day, I actually ran a free Virus scanner in Linux, with
my NTFS Windows hard drive as the target of the scan.
Note that, with a Live CD, you don't have to install anything. The CD
boots, and system RAM is used for temporary storage. The CD is used
to get applications and system files. With a Live CD, you don't even need
a working hard drive to be present.
The bad part, is the popular distros can be quite large. Knoppix (knopper.net)
and Ubuntu (ubuntu.com) are 700MB download each. You need software that can
burn an ISO9660 image to a CD (I used Nero that came with my CD burner). I
like Knoppix, because it puts text messages on the screen, during the boot
phase. You can review the messages later, in a console window, using the
"dmesg" command.
If you have high speed Internet, it might take an hour to download the 700MB
file. If you are on dialup, it would take forever. You can also find places
that sell the CD on the Internet, but I don't have any experience with that.
Based on using Linux, you would have the opportunity to open log files on the
hard drive, that you might not be able to look at currently. Maybe if there
was a file that traced the loading of drivers, you might get some idea from
that, as to where it is getting stuck. A Linux Live CD gives you an alternate
way, to look at the contents of your hard drive.
Paul