OK, So, I fired this POS up for the first time in months.
I get no video image, Nothing.
I hear about 3 to 5 seconds of a hard drive spinning up and it stops.
I get blinking lights from the “Caps lock” and “drive working” with no spin of the hard drive.
Keep in mind this just happened out of the blue.
If I got a boot disc, I’m not even certain that it will pick it up.
In post #67, The Cajun had a suggestion (quote):
"Had this happen on a relatives desktop 2 months ago, reseated the memory boards, took care of the problem.
Went on afterward and CAREFULLY cleaned the memory card contacts (2 mem boards), no reports of trouble since.
Original symptom, it would hang on boot up, wouldn't get to Win start up screen, Hd would stop spinning (Win 7 OS)."
Some people recommend gently cleaning the RAM stick contacts with a pencil eraser. (Disclaimer: That isn't to say that *I* recommend it. I merely mention as an option.)
Otherwise... if there's no POST screen, and no error beeps, you may need to find someone locally (friend/relative?) to sit actually down in front of it, and trouble-shoot the system.
WoW
I let it run since my original post.
45 minutes later, I have video and a log on screen.
I don’t trust it.