Hi. I'm new here. Anyway, I don't know what to do about my computer. I'm a semi computer person, so I know some things.
Here's the story...I recently added an extra hard drive to my computer for storage. I followed the directions given. I don't think I set the pin correctly on the master. Anyway, everything worked fine, then all of a sudden I was trying to use this music presentation disc and it froze and wouldn't open the disc at all. Then I restarted the computer. Now it won't start at all. It will power down if I hold the button; and it will start up. But it won't go pass the compac screen. It won'y go into setup. It won't go into safe mode. I have tried going in and making sure everything is seated. My hard drive works in someone else's computer. I don't think it's the power supply because the fans work and it powers up and powers down fine. Any suggestions? Is it possibly the motherboard or CPU? If so, should I just get a new computer and not bother trying to fix it?
Compac Presario 5100nx
80 GB hard drive
256 RAM
Windows XP
Here's the story...I recently added an extra hard drive to my computer for storage. I followed the directions given. I don't think I set the pin correctly on the master. Anyway, everything worked fine, then all of a sudden I was trying to use this music presentation disc and it froze and wouldn't open the disc at all. Then I restarted the computer. Now it won't start at all. It will power down if I hold the button; and it will start up. But it won't go pass the compac screen. It won'y go into setup. It won't go into safe mode. I have tried going in and making sure everything is seated. My hard drive works in someone else's computer. I don't think it's the power supply because the fans work and it powers up and powers down fine. Any suggestions? Is it possibly the motherboard or CPU? If so, should I just get a new computer and not bother trying to fix it?
Compac Presario 5100nx
80 GB hard drive
256 RAM
Windows XP