Need PC help so I can play with you fools again!

[Poker$tar$]

Have you checked your boot order and that the proper boot device is selected in the bios?

yup. hmmmmmmmmm if the battery ran out tho it might be booting from the wrong Hard drive. Maybe those orders are messed up. And I reset all the plugs, ram, video card. Will the battery recharge with it being plugged in?

[acolyte_to_jippity]

yup. hmmmmmmmmm if the battery ran out tho it might be booting from the wrong Hard drive. Maybe those orders are messed up. And I reset all the plugs, ram, video card. Will the battery recharge with it being plugged in?

probably not. but check in your bios to make sure the boot order is right. you'll need to set the system time if the battery went

[Steamer]

If you moved it around at all, make sure all cards, RAM, and every other connector is secure.

I have had this problem before from a RAM stick knocked a bit loose. Bios post, all good, ect, black stuck screen after post.

As others said, check bios and boot orders also.

[Poker$tar$]

nothing worked that was mentioned...could my harddrive that is running the OS be bad? But the thing is, it won't even boot from the CDrom. Shouldn't it be able to boot from the cdrom with the windows disk? I dk if I said this before but the boot order was messed up, first priority was floppy, so im pretty sure the battery died on the mobo.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

nothing worked that was mentioned...could my harddrive that is running the OS be bad? But the thing is, it won't even boot from the CDrom. Shouldn't it be able to boot from the cdrom with the windows disk? I dk if I said this before but the boot order was messed up, first priority was floppy, so im pretty sure the battery died on the mobo.

then change the boot order back to having CD rom, then HDD.

[Poker$tar$]

then change the boot order back to having CD rom, then HDD.

Thats what I'm saying, it won't boot from CDrom. I have changed the boot order for every combination.

[Steamer]

Odd... Should be able to boot from cdrom if bios is posting and your ram is working....

What happens when you actually go to boot from the CD? Black screen thing again? Make sure the disk is actually bootable, also, try USB stick boot.

[Poker$tar$]

Odd... Should be able to boot from cdrom if bios is posting and your ram is working....

What happens when you actually go to boot from the CD? Black screen thing again? Make sure the disk is actually bootable, also, try USB stick boot.

yup, black screen with blinking cursor. And I have booted from this disk before to reformat my pc. I'll try USB stick boot, last time I tried that I couldn't get it to work correctly tho, I used cdrom instead.