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Old December 5th, 2003, 12:10 AM
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computer refuses to boot
running Windows XP.

My system doesn't want to boot up, as soon as i turn it on, it pretty much justs hangs. the only noise i can hear coming from inside the box is the whirring of the fans, no beeps, no nothing.
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Old December 5th, 2003, 01:49 PM
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First guess is a dead power supply.
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Old December 5th, 2003, 02:10 PM
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Can you get into BIOS? If so, set your boot sequence to CDRom first, boot from the XP CD and attempt a repair installation.

good luck
Tom
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Old December 6th, 2003, 03:03 PM
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could be a few things ....this same situation happened to me and it turned out to be a burnt out bios chip...luckily a company in a neighboring town sells bios chips.so for twenty bucks and a short drive i was back in business.

basically my symptoms were similar....i start pc and no beeps...no vid....just fans and hd spinning.if u need bios chip send me a pm and ill give u the link(dont wanna advertise here and be banned )
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