Lights on but nothing there

Started By bootneck02, Feb 09 2009 10:02 PM

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#1 bootneck02

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Posted 09 February 2009 - 10:02 PM

I have a catouloge of disasters and to say I am geed off would be an understatement. The latest is my home build PC (of witch I am very proud, it is my baby). I had an error message come up saying that there was a hardware problem attached to a USB and it then crashed out of Vista. I rebooted it with a Vista boot disc this could not complete the boot and the screen went blank. I turned it off disconected it from the mains, reconected back to the mains and booted it up.power is on but nothing screen canot find a digital signal and no BIOS. Any suggestions where I start :FU:

PC 1: home build (built and owned by an old git)
Case: CoolMaster Wave
PSU: CoolMaster Real Power M700
TFT Screen: Samsung 223BW 21.6 "
Mother Board;Gigabite DA-965P-DS3
CPU: Intel® Core™2 E6600 2.40GHz
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O S:32 bit Vista UltimateEX Vista 64bit but little software or divers
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D: SAMSUNG HD501LJ 500 GB Photo's
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PC2:Operating System dual boot
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600) / Ubuntu 8.1o
System Serial Number: OEM
Enclosure Type: Desktop
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3.15 gigahertz Intel Pentium D
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Foxconn 945 7AD Series
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ATAPI DVD D DH16D2P [CD-ROM drive]
TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653N [CD-ROM drive]

ST3500630AS [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0 2048 Megabytes Installed Memory

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#2 digger Re: Lights on but nothing there

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Posted 09 February 2009 - 10:56 PM

I would start by disconnecting USB devices. I had a USB hub go and that is the same way mine acted. Another member had similar problem few weeks ago and this is how he solved it also. He had a bad USB card.

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Posted 09 February 2009 - 11:02 PM

bootneck02, on Feb 9 2009, 05:02 PM, said:

I have a catouloge of disasters and to say I am geed off would be an understatement. The latest is my home build PC (of witch I am very proud, it is my baby). I had an error message come up saying that there was a hardware problem attached to a USB and it then crashed out of Vista. I rebooted it with a Vista boot disc this could not complete the boot and the screen went blank. I turned it off disconected it from the mains, reconected back to the mains and booted it up.power is on but nothing screen canot find a digital signal and no BIOS. Any suggestions where I start :FU:

With all due respect and apologies in advance if my opinion is not shared here but cross posting to multiple help forums is really unhelpful. Especially in hardware and or software issues where a back and forth dialog is ongoing containing changes underway.

If someone were helping you here I would not know it over there unless as now I am reading both forums.

Likewise anyone here trying to help would not know you have already taken steps I suggested over there.

Anyway I just wanted to point this out and again if the staff and friends here disagree with me please let me know.

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#4 dobhar Re: Lights on but nothing there

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Posted 09 February 2009 - 11:56 PM

Hi bootneck02...

jephree is correct and I have moved this to the Vista forum where we will see what we can do to help... http://www.smartestc...tyle_emoticons/default/smile.gif

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Posted 10 February 2009 - 12:21 AM

Hi bootneck02...

Just deleted my own post...I realized what jephree was talking about...you also posted your issue in the D-A-L Forum...
http://www.d-a-l.com/help/general-internet...hing-there.html

jephree said:

cross posting to multiple help forums is really unhelpful. Especially in hardware and or software issues where a back and forth dialog is ongoing containing changes underway.

If someone were helping you here I would not know it over there unless as now I am reading both forums.

jephree is correct...you should never post your issue in multiple forums as one forum could be telling you to do "this" and the other forum could be telling you to do "that" and what happens is both "fixes" could cause one to fail. THe best way to handle it is to use one forum then if the other forum could not help then definitely post in another. I'm sure jephree is taking great care of you in the D-A-L forum so we should "close" this thread and let jephree help you over there.