PC will not POST or Boot consistently
Hi guys.....first post so please be gentle.
Had my PC running for over 6 months with no probs, but with an oem XP installation from my desktop. I have since found out that I shouldn't have done this and so went out to buy a copy of XP home for the desktop.
Reformatted both hard drives
Installed windows OK, then went to bed
Next day PC would not boot.
Fans started
Floppy drive gave very short clump sound
Hard Drives and CD Drives woud not spin up
No nothing on monitor (green light went to amber and stayed there)
No beeps
Thinking that this could be a device problem, I opened the case, removed all PCI devices, reseated memory, reseated AGP card, removed heatsink to check contact area and for damage to chip (then reassembled), checked PSU voltages at PSH and on HDD's...........all seemed OK, but no boot.
Removed CMOS battery for a day, reinserted.......no boot
Cleared CMOS (jumpered) for 1 hour, reset CMOS then hey presto all came back to life........great I thought until I turned it on the following day only to find that I had to clear the CMOS again before it starts.done this 3 times now and wondering what is wrong.........any ideas greatly appreciated.
Basic System
MSI KTS Ultra2 MOBO
AMD Athlon (Palomino) XP2000+
640Mb PC2100 DDR RAM
Q-Tec 400W PSU
Radeon 9200SE AGP
2x 80Gb HDD
DVD Reader
DVD R/RW
Hi guys.....first post so please be gentle.
Had my PC running for over 6 months with no probs, but with an oem XP installation from my desktop. I have since found out that I shouldn't have done this and so went out to buy a copy of XP home for the desktop.
Reformatted both hard drives
Installed windows OK, then went to bed
Next day PC would not boot.
Fans started
Floppy drive gave very short clump sound
Hard Drives and CD Drives woud not spin up
No nothing on monitor (green light went to amber and stayed there)
No beeps
Thinking that this could be a device problem, I opened the case, removed all PCI devices, reseated memory, reseated AGP card, removed heatsink to check contact area and for damage to chip (then reassembled), checked PSU voltages at PSH and on HDD's...........all seemed OK, but no boot.
Removed CMOS battery for a day, reinserted.......no boot
Cleared CMOS (jumpered) for 1 hour, reset CMOS then hey presto all came back to life........great I thought until I turned it on the following day only to find that I had to clear the CMOS again before it starts.done this 3 times now and wondering what is wrong.........any ideas greatly appreciated.
Basic System
MSI KTS Ultra2 MOBO
AMD Athlon (Palomino) XP2000+
640Mb PC2100 DDR RAM
Q-Tec 400W PSU
Radeon 9200SE AGP
2x 80Gb HDD
DVD Reader
DVD R/RW