5punk

right, so my mum and dad recently bought a new pc. I and my mate were in charge of putting the thing together and installing the software. But it was only after we installed everything that my mum told us she still wanted some of the music from the old pc. so my mate gets the HDD from the old pc and connects it to the new one through some magic USB thing, but somehow the music is nowhere to be found. i figured it had something to do with acess limits or similar so i put it back in the old one. ANYHOW.
now i can't boot the old one up again. not a single screen will respond to it, i checked the cables and everything is firmly in place. So i'm a bit stuck now, and i was hoping one of you knew what to do. Also, i don't know if it matters, but it seems to start up automatically when you plug the power in, it never did that before.

cheers.

to be safe, unplug everything from the mobo, then plug it back in again

what it sounds like is the bios has got reset or fucked up (the state after power loss is a bios setting) so resetting the bios (rtfm, or pull the mobo battery for 10 minutes while machine unplugged) might fix it.

or it might not.

You should at least be seeing the POST?

Anery wrote:You should at least be seeing the POST?

sod seeing it, are you hearing it? (one beeb on startup)

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:one beeb on startup

??

exactly.

aha! it worked!
many thanks.

Mr. Johnson wrote:aha! it worked!
many thanks.

what worked? i need to know these things for future reference

pulling everything from the mobo, then re-insterting it.

Hurrah, amazing how often that fixes shit

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Hurrah, amazing how often that fixes shit

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Hurrah, amazing how often that fixes shit

It's like the Advanced Course in Turning It Off And Turning It On Again.

Stoat wrote:It's like the Advanced Course in Turning It Off And Turning It On Again.

I like to think of it as blowing on a NES cartridge, the new generation