update:

now it turns on but wont POST at all... Have to unplug it to turn it off... motherboard fried?

another thing: the LED on the motherboard, under normal POST operation blinks at a set...

Hello again, same computer, new problem...

(A little precursor - dont think this is related but just for good measure... I just bought a UPS for my machine and had plugged my computer into it,...

strangely enough, when that drive was set to drive 0, booting from the XP CD produced a blank screen only...

But that problem is long gone, after i gave up and just had that drive as drive 1, it...

Ok, the drive is fine, but cant be used as Drive 0, so I assume the boot sector is corrupted? How can i fix that?

I can't get into safe mode, as the first thing that happens after my SCSI CD drives load is the "A data read error occurred" message. No XP logo or anything.

I've just tried using the XP CD to...

Greetings,

Today I had a power failure (I usually have one every week, and it just shuts my computer down and it comes back up fine after power returns.) This time though, i was in the process of...