Help - No boot up

[Redneck]

Went from Win98SE to installing Win2K Pro. W2K loaded up good to a point where for some reason it could not find files anymore and could not find the CD anymore. Just kept looking for files and allowing me to bypass them. I cancelled and rebooted. Nothing came up.

Since then it does not seam to even make it to drive A:. I changed the vedio card and no luck as I thought maybe it was this. Tried a couple old HD's with no success. Nothing comes up on the screen. Never makes it to the BIOS or shows it is reading anything. Like I say the lightfor srive A: is never on. The HD makes some swirling noise and that is it.

I feel that if I could get to drive a: at least I could start over again with a boot up disk. No joy.

Suggestions?? Help??

Redneck...

 

[smah]

Sounds like there are possible multiple issues. As for trying to start over again - have you tried booting directly from the Win2K CD? Change the first boot device to your CD rom, then boot with the cd in the drive.

 

[karmic]

Might wanna check your power supply to see if it's still good. if no boot, may be a bad or missing "power good" signal or maybe just unplug the reset button.

 

[Win98User]

Redneck,
Have you formatted your hard drive? And if so, what format did you use?

Regards.

 

[Snakeyeskm]

Its very possible your mobo Bios is corrupted. Try clearing your Bios.
Cheers Zero Mistakes = Zero Experience
And Boy do I have experience !

 

[lostsoul33]

Get rid of Win2000,Upgrade to XP.2000 has way too many issues.It was designed for business and networking not for home computing.Win 98SE would also have been a better choice