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No BIOS Screen on Start-up

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Spinicus

Technical User
Oct 24, 2001
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US
Problem:

When I tried to wake my PC from sleeping (monitor off, hard disks off), it wouldn't wake. After hitting several mouse buttons and keyboard keys, I manually shut-it down and restarted it. Upon restarting, the monitor continued to sleep and the hard disk made it's initial boot sound, but made no sounds like it was trying to initialize the BIOS or WinXP.

So I'm stuck with a PC that has power going to it, but seemingly no boot sequence. I tried the monitor on a different PC and it worked fine, so I don't think that's the problem. I was thinking it might be the video card, or maybe the BIOS has gone schizo on me...

What do you guys and gals think?
 
Nevermind guys. I think I've located the culprit...it's called Windows XP :)
 
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