Help needed

[alpine00001]

Ok,

Problem: When I power on my computer the fans start, the hardisk spins, but doesn't seem to boot. Everything looks normal except nothing loads on the moniter. I've tried to soft-reset it by unplugging the power cable and letting it sit, but hasn't worked. I also tried the moniter cables, but they work on my other computer. I thought it may be loose so i unpluggd and repluggd and still no good. Now, this problem started when i had the computer on hiebernate and pluggd in my ipod before starting it back up. It tried to boot from the ipod. When it couldn't it showed an error, so I unpluggd the ipod but it still didnt work. I turned off the computer to let it sit and try again, but nothing and then i tried all the above and still no good.

I have a Gateway GT series. I'm not sure what you guys need to help solve this, but please ask. This is urgent, thanks.

 

[brian]

try resetting the cmos. Open your computer. On the motherboard you well see this round sliver battery. It should be 3/4 inches in diameter. disconnect the power and take the battery out for 1 minute min. put the battery back and try to power up again

 

[alpine00001]

thanx for the tip. computer is working fine and should be good to go when my parents get home tomorrow morning

 

[paratwa]

Vista is having tons of problems with hibernate, just do a quick google search and you will find that there are a lot of people pissed off about it.

Most of the recommendations are to just disable hibernate.

Glad you have your system back, but you might want to turn hibernate off.