Help...I began having problems with my computer a week ago, with a noise coming from the heatsink fan. I cleaned it, but the noise continued, and I could actually see the fan slowing down and speeding back up. This went on for two days, while I put in an order for a new fan. On the third day, when I turned my computer on, BIOS came up followed by a black screen that listed the master/slave disks and bus controllers, and at the bottom of this page it said this:
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: with a tiny flashing _ at the bottom of the page.
I tried turning it on and off a couple of times, and about the fourth time, it loaded normally...like now, and allows me to use it without crashing or freezing or acting up at all...normal. I have not got the fan yet, and every day it gives me the black screen until about the fourth time I turn it on, then it is normal.
My computer is an AMD Athlon (tm) 2400+ with 2.00 GHz. 576 MB of RAM, and is less than two years old. I have two hard drives, and am basically ignorant.
I did some googling and found this place. I do not have a floppy in the drive, and although I do have a Bart PE builder boot disk, I am not sure how to use it.
My heatsink fan is not overheating, and I have a cooler on it and it is registering about 35 C.
Any suggestions?
Thanks...karenlee
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: with a tiny flashing _ at the bottom of the page.
I tried turning it on and off a couple of times, and about the fourth time, it loaded normally...like now, and allows me to use it without crashing or freezing or acting up at all...normal. I have not got the fan yet, and every day it gives me the black screen until about the fourth time I turn it on, then it is normal.
My computer is an AMD Athlon (tm) 2400+ with 2.00 GHz. 576 MB of RAM, and is less than two years old. I have two hard drives, and am basically ignorant.
I did some googling and found this place. I do not have a floppy in the drive, and although I do have a Bart PE builder boot disk, I am not sure how to use it.
My heatsink fan is not overheating, and I have a cooler on it and it is registering about 35 C.
Any suggestions?
Thanks...karenlee