boot-up error problem solved :)

[philzee]

I thought this might help others who were in a similar situation as me...
My pc would hang as soon as it was switched on and would not beep or even reach the first screeen that tells you your display card.
any way after much searching through this forum and trying various suggestions nothing worked until I decided to strip everything out...
While doing this I noticed that my DVD drive was slightly longer than the normal cd-rom and was touching the memory module in DIMM bank 0, so I moved the drive to another bay and hey presto my pc booted up first time and has done so ever since...Anyway the moral of this story is- start with the VERY basic checks and ensure that your drives etc. are not interfering with stuff on the motherboard, and causing a short.
System:-
Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard
AMD Duron 800MHz
Fujitsu 30Gb HDD
128 Mb PC133 DRAM
GeForce2 MX400 AGP
Pioneer DVD rom
Mirai CD-RW
Windows 98se


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[kayofcircles]

Thanks, philzee. We're troubleshooting a similar situation; your post gives us another thing to "check" out. Appreciate the tip. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

[mjc]

Phil, good call, that was either shorting it out or moving the memory out of place. I guess sometimes the simple answer is the one that works. So I am going to add looking at drive length to my troubleshooting checklist.....


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[Whyzman]

Good catch philzee!! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

This one I'm gonna put down as a variation of the card mounting screw tipping the card out of the slot thingy. Only reason...because I guess it has to do with assembly troubleshooting! This certainly is a new one though! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

Hmmm, so your RAM was rammed! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[Paleo Pete]

Good call...

This one brings up a very good point also, and one I always try to remember. Always check the simplest possibilities. Cords unplugged, cards not well seated, cables plugged into the wrong jack or upside down, jumpers set wrong, no disk in the floppy drive...

And always write protect your start up disks. I lost at least a dozen by turning off the machine with the disk still in the drive befoe I got the hint, it can corrupt them if it tries to write to the floppy at shut down.

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