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You drive me crazy.

120gb hard drive pulled from an older computer.
dvd rom drive also pulled.

I plugged everything in and it all powers up but my monitor doesn’t show anything. There are no beeps from the mobo. I tried the battery trick, didn’t work. I tried taking it all apart and reinstalling everything, didn’t work. I followed directions to the t building this thing. I spent a lot of time researching every little detail.

But the damned thing doesn’t boot into bios or anything. I also tried unplugging the hd and cd rom just to get into bios. Didn’t work.

I have no idea what to do. All the parts I bought are brand new. I also tried installing a graphics card and using that to display, but didn’t work.

I don’t know how to set up the motherboard speakers for the beep sounds. there’s no plug for that.

My Aim is Aymach. I’m usually off and on all day. If anyone can help me get this thing going, it would be much appreciated. I’d pay for the help if I had money. But I spent it all on this computer! haha. Ugh: (

By: aymach

The most obvious one is the fact that it turns on, then after loading stuff from the bios, it resets. I tried to load from the windows CD, but I can’t access it.

Here is a couple things I think it could be, either hard drive failure, or PSU. I installed a 120gig hard drive. It currently had an 80 gig as main, now it also has a 120 gig slave drive.

Ive been having problems for a little while. When I first got the computer 4 years ago, about a week or 2 after, I noticed an error that said “hard drive failure imminent.” Even though it was brand new, and recently I figured out it was a Maxtor.

Certain problems ive had in the past are stuff like, losing administrative controls, things messing up and going really slow, internet downloading at 38kb instead of 180kb.

Now, could it be that the PSU is dead and shuts down the same spot everytime it starts? Or, could the main drive be fried?

Oh, and right as this all happened, I got a stop error…
I dont remember the exact numbers, so I cant look them up. But, it had something to do with a Kernal problem. I looked that up, and it had a couple different things with Kernel Stops. One being a hardware failure, among driver errors and physical memory problem. Should I buy a new hard drive or is something else wrong?
Well…I don’t want to throw out a computer. I have enough to buy a hard drive. But, not enough to buy a brand new one. And ones like HP and Compaq are cheap computers that I will not waste my money on. So, I want to fix this one.

By: Mashu

Reason im doing this is , i just want to start over, to much stuff on PC, much easier if i just format,

But idk how, with a single sata drive

any help?

Thanks

By: zakkary d