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Nik Diablo

Hi

I suddenly had a "mouse freeze" on me. The whole PC locked up and I
rebooted, to Nothing!

I have a 8m old p4 3.2 with 512MB Ram, Win Xp Home SP2, 200MB MAXTOR (Yes
Maxtor..I know what you're thinking) Hard Drive that has been making a
Grating sound for about a week. It's a Diamond Plus 9, SATA and I'm assuming
it's this that has "Gone". Also NVidia 256mb FX5700 AGP graphics.

When I reboot I get all the fans, power to the mobo etc, but no signal at
all to the Viewsonic VE710b monitor. The H/D light comes on (Constant light,
not flickering) for about a minute, then switches off. I get NO bootup
screen or anything. Is this the H/D, MoBo, Memory or what? Any ideas Greatly
appreciated.

Nik
 
Don't be too hard on your Maxtor, yet, your post should be telling you
something. If you have more than one stick of ram, try swapping that first
 
You can try booting it up with the hard drive unplugged (it runs the initial
boot from the CMOS and not the hard drive) and it should show the boot
sequence on the screen until it says some thing like "no boot drive found"
(because you unplugged it). If it does this then the hard drive could be
bad, but if it does not boot with showing anything on the screen then there
is a different problem like RAM or maybe video card.
 
Nik Diablo said:
Hi

I suddenly had a "mouse freeze" on me. The whole PC locked up and I
rebooted, to Nothing!

I have a 8m old p4 3.2 with 512MB Ram, Win Xp Home SP2, 200MB MAXTOR (Yes
Maxtor..I know what you're thinking) Hard Drive that has been making a
Grating sound for about a week. It's a Diamond Plus 9, SATA and I'm assuming
it's this that has "Gone". Also NVidia 256mb FX5700 AGP graphics.

When I reboot I get all the fans, power to the mobo etc, but no signal at
all to the Viewsonic VE710b monitor. The H/D light comes on (Constant light,
not flickering) for about a minute, then switches off. I get NO bootup
screen or anything. Is this the H/D, MoBo, Memory or what? Any ideas Greatly
appreciated.

Nik
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Disconnect the hard drive - both power and data cables,
and see if you get a POST screen.
 
Hi Guys

I tried it without DATA connected, and got the same result, I'll try it
without power now...

I also already did the memory check thing, I got 2 x 256MB sticks, I tried
it with each and still nothing. Oddly, I did get bootup ONCE after this all
happened and I had powered down for about an hour, I quickly turned off and
reconnected my K/B, but that was it..it didn't come back :-(

When it was all fine, if I hit the front power button during the first few
seconds of bootup, it would power down harmlessly: Now, the hard drive light
stays on, the power remains and I obviously get blank everything - If this
was the Graphics card it wouldn't affect the bootup like this would it?

Thanks so far!.....

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Nik Diablo said:
Hi

I suddenly had a "mouse freeze" on me. The whole PC locked up and I
rebooted, to Nothing!

I have a 8m old p4 3.2 with 512MB Ram, Win Xp Home SP2, 200MB MAXTOR (Yes
Maxtor..I know what you're thinking) Hard Drive that has been making a
Grating sound for about a week. It's a Diamond Plus 9, SATA and I'm assuming
it's this that has "Gone". Also NVidia 256mb FX5700 AGP graphics.

When I reboot I get all the fans, power to the mobo etc, but no signal at
all to the Viewsonic VE710b monitor. The H/D light comes on (Constant light,
not flickering) for about a minute, then switches off. I get NO bootup
screen or anything. Is this the H/D, MoBo, Memory or what? Any ideas Greatly
appreciated.

Nik
Click to expand...

Disconnect the hard drive - both power and data cables,
and see if you get a POST screen.
 
Hi Guys

I tried it without DATA connected, and got the same result, I'll try it
without power now...

I also already did the memory check thing, I got 2 x 256MB sticks, I tried
it with each and still nothing. Oddly, I did get bootup ONCE after this all
happened and I had powered down for about an hour, I quickly turned off and
reconnected my K/B, but that was it..it didn't come back :-(

When it was all fine, if I hit the front power button during the first few
seconds of bootup, it would power down harmlessly: Now, the hard drive light
stays on, the power remains and I obviously get blank everything - If this
was the Graphics card it wouldn't affect the bootup like this would it?

Thanks so far!.....


....Okay, did the disconnect H/D totally "bit" and same results. No bootup
screen. When I hit "reset" it does seem to do something, it flickers the
lights on both CD & DVD drives as though it's restarted. Any more ideas?

Thanx again

Nik

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Nik Diablo said:
Hi

I suddenly had a "mouse freeze" on me. The whole PC locked up and I
rebooted, to Nothing!

I have a 8m old p4 3.2 with 512MB Ram, Win Xp Home SP2, 200MB MAXTOR (Yes
Maxtor..I know what you're thinking) Hard Drive that has been making a
Grating sound for about a week. It's a Diamond Plus 9, SATA and I'm assuming
it's this that has "Gone". Also NVidia 256mb FX5700 AGP graphics.

When I reboot I get all the fans, power to the mobo etc, but no signal at
all to the Viewsonic VE710b monitor. The H/D light comes on (Constant light,
not flickering) for about a minute, then switches off. I get NO bootup
screen or anything. Is this the H/D, MoBo, Memory or what? Any ideas Greatly
appreciated.

Nik
Click to expand...

Disconnect the hard drive - both power and data cables,
and see if you get a POST screen.
 
:shock:

hi buddy,

First remove power and data cable of HDD. Remove your AGP card
and install it again. And then try to insert one RAM and start the
computer. If the problem is not solve, remove this RAM and insert
another RAM. If the problem is not solve, try to test with know good
AGP and Memory. If the problem is not solved, I think your
motherboard have some problem.
 
Great, I'll give it a go!!! Thanx

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:shock:

hi buddy,

First remove power and data cable of HDD. Remove your AGP card
and install it again. And then try to insert one RAM and start the
computer. If the problem is not solve, remove this RAM and insert
another RAM. If the problem is not solve, try to test with know good
AGP and Memory. If the problem is not solved, I think your
motherboard have some problem.
 
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