I did take out the battery. Isnt that how you reset the motherboard?

Yep,It freezes up right after the first post comes up and thats as far as it will go. So I can try new memory and see if that helps? It came with 1gb(2-512mb) and I added 1gb(1-1gb) about a year ago....

It wont let me run a windows cd or anything. It seems to be locked up.

Tried that and it still does the same thing. The computer was working fine the night before and the weather was fine and I dont think there were any surges but you never can tell. If I have to...

I tried holding F8 in at start up but nothing happens. It will saying loading boot menu when pressing Esc and entering setup when holding F1 but it nevers goes past that. None of the other keys will...

My Hp Media Center computer will not boot up. It will not go into setup,recover or reboot from the recovery discs. It just freezes up at the start screen. Does this mean my hard drive has died or I...