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Thanks for any help on the following:
My XP system has worked great for months. Suddenly, after booting one
evening, XP doesn’t launch and the HDD LED indicator stays lit.
When the PC is started, both SATA hard drives are correctly identified
on screen as 250MB Maxtors, and both DVD drives are correctly
identified on screen as Primary Master IDE and Secondary Master IDE.
Memory is identified as 2048MB. There are no beeps on boot.
After boot, it is time for XP to start, but my case’s red HDD LED
lights up and stays lit. Instead of XP even trying to start, I get a
blank screen. A few times, I tried tapping ’F8’ on startup and
selected boot into ’Safe Mode’, but the blank screen appeared and the
red HDD LED lit immediately after making this choice. So, it seems
this has GOT to be a hardware problem.
Need I try a new Power Supply? If so, what kind?
The PC’s config:
XP Professional w/ Service Pack 2
CPU: (939-pin) AMD ATHLON64 4000+ CPU w/ Hyper Trans Tech
MOBOARD: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe VIA K8T890
Power Supply: ULTRA X-Connect 500W ATX PS
RAM: 2x1GB Corsair XMS High Performance Memory Modules
2 MAXTOR 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB CACHE HARD DRIVES
Video: Geforce 6800 ULTRA 512MB 16X PCI EXPRESS
1 AOPEN COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW)
1 PIONEER DVR-109 DUAL FORMAT 16X DVD±R/±RW
1 Creative Labs SB Audigy-2 ZS 7.1
1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE
INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
3COM US ROBOTIC PCI V.92 WINMODEM
3 CASE FANS
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Thanks for any help on the following:
My XP system has worked great for months. Suddenly, after booting one
evening, XP doesn’t launch and the HDD LED indicator stays lit.
When the PC is started, both SATA hard drives are correctly identified
on screen as 250MB Maxtors, and both DVD drives are correctly
identified on screen as Primary Master IDE and Secondary Master IDE.
Memory is identified as 2048MB. There are no beeps on boot.
After boot, it is time for XP to start, but my case’s red HDD LED
lights up and stays lit. Instead of XP even trying to start, I get a
blank screen. A few times, I tried tapping ’F8’ on startup and
selected boot into ’Safe Mode’, but the blank screen appeared and the
red HDD LED lit immediately after making this choice. So, it seems
this has GOT to be a hardware problem.
Need I try a new Power Supply? If so, what kind?
The PC’s config:
XP Professional w/ Service Pack 2
CPU: (939-pin) AMD ATHLON64 4000+ CPU w/ Hyper Trans Tech
MOBOARD: ASUS A8V-E Deluxe VIA K8T890
Power Supply: ULTRA X-Connect 500W ATX PS
RAM: 2x1GB Corsair XMS High Performance Memory Modules
2 MAXTOR 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA 150 8MB CACHE HARD DRIVES
Video: Geforce 6800 ULTRA 512MB 16X PCI EXPRESS
1 AOPEN COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW)
1 PIONEER DVR-109 DUAL FORMAT 16X DVD±R/±RW
1 Creative Labs SB Audigy-2 ZS 7.1
1.44 MB FLOPPY DRIVE
INTERNAL 6in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer
3COM US ROBOTIC PCI V.92 WINMODEM
3 CASE FANS
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