Werid Problem

[laznz1]

Haya Building a old computer the other day and had installed XP on but when i went to boot it today no visual comes up cant work out what happened??

its an old Intell Celeron 766 with 512mb ram and a 20gb HDD

Any ideas appericated

 

[AUTOBOOT2000]

All the wires are connected? Any beeps?

 

[laznz1]

all wires connected and no no bios beeps at all

 

[AUTOBOOT2000]

Did it ever boot? Does the bios come up? Try booting in safe mode?

 

[DCIScouts]

You might be having a similar problem to another person as the CMOS battery either needs to replaced, or just reset.

 

[AUTOBOOT2000]

You might be having a similar problem to another person as the CMOS battery either needs to replaced, or just reset.

Damn those cmos batteries! I had the weirdest things happening to my computer when that went dead.

 

[DCIScouts]

It's always that $3 part that makes the $1500 dollar machine act like a chimp sniffing it's own poo...

 

[laznz1]

well nothing comes up on the screen lol will test battery

 

[laznz1]

Battery fine working nicely at 3V still no boot i dont understand why there no visual it seems the screens fine working on my main any other ideas

 

[laznz1]

Any ideas at all will help

 

[atentora]

Old computers do sometimes just die. If you did any handling of parts you may have just fried something.

 

[laznz1]

i know it is a tad old havnt done anything with it as off yet considering striping it down and either having a smash party or sell it off lol unless anyone else can think of something