fulhamsteve
New Member
Hey everyone, I'd really appreciate it if you guys could shed some light on an issue I've been having with my old Compaq desktop. It's a compaq presario running windows xp- I am aware of the issues with using xp online but my aim is to use this computer as a music recording device so I won't need to use the internet outside of the initial downloading DAWs and VSTs etc. Anyway this computer hadnt been used for the best part of 5 years and was still on sp2, so upon startup and deleting some old unused games and software, I tried updating to service pack 3. Turns out this was a big mistake as my computer will not boot now. The last thing it did was tell me to restart so it could finalise the update but now all I get is a black screen, with no prompts. I can hear it spooling up and stuff, but it seems to be caught in a boot loop and I never get any of the usual prompts on screen.
So far i have tried with no success:
- entering safe mode.
- entering bios.
- removing and replacing the cmos battery.
- checking different wires and to make sure the lead wasn't faulty.
I can see on the hard drive (ATA/IDE) there are two leads connected, and space for another next to them. The space has 4 pins there, and i think i can see a lead which would go on it. could this be the issue?
So far i have tried with no success:
- entering safe mode.
- entering bios.
- removing and replacing the cmos battery.
- checking different wires and to make sure the lead wasn't faulty.
I can see on the hard drive (ATA/IDE) there are two leads connected, and space for another next to them. The space has 4 pins there, and i think i can see a lead which would go on it. could this be the issue?
