Help!!!

[bugsbrat]

COmputers are frusterating
I have a friend with an old pentuim pro and she wanted to install a CD Writer in it. I spoke with her and I told her that I wanted to get some memory in her system and we got the memory and I went to install it. By the time I got her old memory out I realized I did not get the right memory so I put the stick back in.
She asked me to put the CD writer in so I hooked it up and plugged everything back in and it boots up just find except two things.,

A- Her monitor acts like it has no signal. I plugged everything in the place where it was left.

B- It boots up, scans the hard drive just fine and hangs there.

WHAT HAPPEND!! This has been flawless for me before...

[Budfred]

"COmputers are frusterating
I have a friend with an old pentuim pro and she wanted to install a CD Writer in it. I spoke with her and I told her that I wanted to get
some memory in her system and we got the memory and I went to install it. By the time I got her old memory out I realized I did not get
the right memory so I put the stick back in.
She asked me to put the CD writer in so I hooked it up and plugged everything back in and it boots up just find except two things.,
A- Her monitor acts like it has no signal. I plugged everything in the place where it was left.
B- It boots up, scans the hard drive just fine and hangs there.
WHAT HAPPEND!! This has been flawless for me before..."

Could be a number of different things. You may have dislodged the video card when you tried to install the memory, you may have dislodged a cable or two, and you may have plain old broken something in the mainboard. However, you said that the computer boots and scans the HD, how do you know it is doing this if you can't see it on the monitor? If you hooked up another monitor and it worked, it suggests that something is wrong with the monitor itself or you just didn't get the cable connection right the first time. It could also be that you didn't seat the memory back in properly, but if that were the case probably nothing would work.

By the way, how fast is that Pentium Pro? It may not have the power to run the CDRW and that can screw up your whole system.

You might want to post a few more details so that some of the experts (not me) here can give you more ideas.

Good luck,
Budfred

[Fruss Tray Ted]

BugsBrat,

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First remove or just unhook the CD-burner and see if you can get it working again.

Are you referring to P.O.S.T (power on self test) when you say it tests the hard-drive-disk (HDD)? Testing the HDD would be 'Scandisk' which would be AFTER 'POST'. Is it before the first beep? Do you have any video at all while it starts to boot up?

Does it have onboard video?

Please list more info on your friends computer. What type of memory is it? pc133 RAM should work in a pc100 RAM type board if I'm not mistaken but it could be older than that. (SIMM rather than DIMM)
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Make sure power is off, the unit is unplugged and you press the power button to release any stored energy in the power supply before continuing.

Disconnect everything EXCEPT the video card if it has one, power supply, one stick of memory (unless SIMM RAM whereas you'd need to leave a pair) and the floppy drive to the motherboard. Keep the keyboard and monitor connected externally.

Put in a bootdisk and see if it has any video at all but make no changes whether or not successful at this point.

You could try reseating any and all cards, video, RAM etc and power plugs to each unit then try again. Make sure you are grounded by at least by resting your wrists against the case as you work. You may need another memory stick if static "nailed" the original one so you may as well get another compatible stick of memory to try as you were planning on upgrading that anyway.

Others my follow with more suggestions, good luck...

[BigBlue66]

We first need to know where you hooked the CDRW up to. Did you connect it to the same cable the harddrive is on? Did you set all jumpers accordingly?

Have you entered BIOS setup and made sure all IDE channels are set to Auto?