Sup people long time no post.

Anyways im gonna need your help on this one. My dads computer caught some sort of a virus (answers.com ie bar) along with other things and it was some time till his computer was formatted so i decided to proceed with the windows install. I got to where you need to format the machine and started the ntsf format (slow).


At that time i left the room and came back 10 minutes later to find a black screen on my monitor and the computer turned on but nothing on the screen. My cd drive light was on along with the other 2 lights on the bottom. I reset the computer and it just hangs at that and doesn't boot the cmos at all so i cant complete the os. I ran some tests to see maybe a defective hd or cdrom drive but nothing. Everytime i turn on the system I get the same thing, cd rom drive light is on and bottom computer case lights are on. I think it is my motherboard, i dunno if a virus invaded my cmos chip so right now i took the battery out of the mobo hoping it would clear it up. Ohh nad i cant eject the cdrom drive, it just hangs there and i do hear a beep like the computer is just about to start booting but no floppy drive check and nothing on the screen.

Anybody have any ideas

P3 Computer
512 ram
Was running win xp sp2

the CDrom that wont eject, is this the one with the OS disc in ? Straighten out a paper clip and push it into the small hole on the front of the CD drive this will manually open the tray a cm or so, gently pull it full open take out the disc and the power up your PC, if it boots to the BIOS rundown youve sorted it, if it dont, reboot it and hold down the del, F1 or esc key to enter the BIOS see what the boot up configuration is and if the drives are set to Auto detect

ill try it but shouldn't the bios boot no matter what is wrong (hd,cdrom) it should just access them to see if they dont work ill take the disk out and try it but i dont think thats the issue. BTW it doesn't even enter the bios screen, yeah it boots up but i dont see anything on the black screen

any other comments ?

tryed it and still both lights on cd drive light is on but i cant open the tray

okay open up the PC and disconnect the IDE cable and the power cable from the CDRom, see if it boots then, the CDrom should have opened on a manual attempt, may be the CD is jammed, the CDrom may be set to check for a boot disc before the harddrive, because it cannot complete the check the system is hanging

no i got the cd out manually and i disconnected the power cable for the hard drive and both cd rom drives that i have

Still the same thing, its weird because its just like a problem arose from nothing. It was working fine now its not anyway i dont know whats up with it but i will tinker with it some more.

okay, from what youve said can you now give run down of what happens, it seems it now boots but the screen goes black/blank after the boot up and you cant see whats happening.

can you disconnect all IDE devices (IDE cables and pwr supply cables) except the primary Hdrive, reboot and post back

no nuttaper

everything is still as it was, the screen never even turns on since this happened and still hasn't, its almost as if there is no bios in the system, just you turn it on and nothing happeneds except the case lights are on, ive unplugged both ide cables and just have the power on and the cdrom then edjects,

im almost positive its the motherboard but why would it short out right now ...

it doesn't make sense

Does your monitor light stay amber or change to green? Do you get any beeps?

Remove graphics card and replace with another if you have one.

Hmm, could have been a fault on the PSU, or just an electronic component failure, I had one a while ago where a PC just stopped working, in the end the MoBo and the CPU (AMD) had to be replaced in order to bring it back to life, the guy who owned it was no IT proffessional, I think he was playing solitare at the time ?? dont know why, but it just stopped.