Computer hanging at mobo screen

[TimPoet]

Help. It was working just fine then this mprning it just hangs at the mobo logo screen.

Suggestions, please.

Background: I made DVD burner master

[TimPoet]

made DVD master and HDD slave (dumb idea) and its normal thing is to sit at mobo logo for a minute then flip over to screen that says press F1 and I do and then it loads.

Also, it wont go to SETUP by pressing DEL

[EzyStvy]

The F1 screen should give you an idea of what's failing to load...

[TimPoet]

I dont know how to get it to the F1 screen, do u?

[TwoRails]

Did you set it back up for the HD to be Master and the burner as Slave? (or set them to CS?) Also try disconnecting the burner, leaving the HD as Master or CS.

[EzyStvy]

I was referring to your comment here:

Originally Posted by TimPoet made DVD master and HDD slave (dumb idea) and its normal thing is to sit at mobo logo for a minute then flip over to screen that says press F1 and I do and then it loads. Also, it wont go to SETUP by pressing DEL

Usually, the screen will say XXX Failed to load - press F1 to continue. We need to know what XXX is.

[glc]

Put it back the way it was.

[TimPoet]

First, I disconnected the dvd drive, no go. Then I left dvd unplugged and switched cable connection on hard drive- same exact result, it just hangs at mobo logo.

Im wondering if my hard drive failed.

[glc]

Can you get into the bios settings? If so, see if the drives are detected.

[TimPoet]

No, I cant get into BIOS. So frustrated and bored (just woke up from 10 hr daysleep) am thinking aout seeing if 24 hr Walmart sells hard drives. I got one corner of my room to search thru for mobo drivers.

[glc]

Disconnect BOTH drives and see if you can get into the bios. If you can't, the drives are okay, something else has failed.

[TimPoet]

Then something else has failed cuz I did what u said to no avail.

[glc]

Reseat everything. You may have knocked a cable loose or disturbed the ram while playing inside there.

[TimPoet]

Originally Posted by glc Reseat everything. You may have knocked a cable loose or disturbed the ram while playing inside there.

Thanks, George, that did the trick. You're the best. Now, to return the Hard Drive.... Maybe should swap it for RAM

[glc]

I don't think Wally World sells ram, do they?

[TimPoet]

Originally Posted by glc I don't think Wally World sells ram, do they?

They had a couple sticks of 1G Kingston, the brand I'm using for about $70. Don't really know if it is compatible, might just get cash back and order from Newegg.

I did find my Mobo driver disk from Asus. Might just nuke the HDD. I can't load songs to my cell phone which would really help my running cuz my license isnt valid and it wont let me use Windows Media Player.

But some of the drivers I downloaded came zipped and I got confused on how to burn them to disk, as a zipped app or after zip and if after, which files do I burn, there are many....

EDIT:
Oh, and to fix my HDD being slaved to Disk drive, all I have to do is switch the cables? This ribbon is awkward, the distance from the two drives is very short and I didn't think I could put the one on HDD first, very tight fit.

RE EDIT:
Would 4GB of RAM be much more better than 2 GB? Can my system handle 4 GB?
Here, Newegg's configurator says this will work with my system for same price as the HDD. My system does slow up with Second Life and Firefox going on at same time and Open Office Writer is always very slow.
Hmmm, one reviewer says it showed up as single channel RAM on his system and another says only 2.75 GB of RAM shows.

[glc]

You *can* put 4gb in, but it's only going to use around 3gb. If you are running 1gb now, I'd just go with 2gb.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145098

Either move the drives around in the case or get a longer cable - the hard drive needs to be on the end connector and the optical needs to be on the middle.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812104050

I'd recommend you spend the 90 bucks for a legal copy of XP.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116511

You can just burn the zip file - XP has a built in unzipper.

[TimPoet]

Thanks, George.