Hi guys,

I have an Abit BE-7 mobo, and an Intel Pentium 4 2,4 Ghz.
Yesterday I dust cleaned my mobo and CPU.

But now when I boot up my pc, it does nothing. Only my fans start rotating and there is a sound beeping (which is not normal). So nothing else happens, even my monitors don't start.

Is there something I need to do when I removed and re-inserted my CPU ?

Any help is appreciated !

Greets
Zoempie

I would pull the cpu again and look for bent pins...

I assume you know about the notch on the cpu and only supposed to go in ONE WAY..

Hey, hang on here!

The very first thing to try is resetting CMOS!

Remove the CMOS battery, with the power doisconnected of course, and replace it after waiting for several minutes for the CMOS memory to be cleared. That will set everything back to defaults.

It is a basic troubleshooting procedure to carry out when your system does not POST.

We also need a description of those beeps. How many, how long or short, etc etc.

Hello, everyone! This is my first post.
I have a problem similar to johnwong11. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron running XP, and it will not properly boot. All it will do after POST and the "Starting Windows" spash screen is to load the cursor onto a blank screen. I can move the cursor, but nothing happens.
This started after I attempted to clean up spyware that snuck onto the machine. I can't even load Safe Mode, and the CD may or may not load, because I can't see the screen. Is there anything I can do to access my laptop?

Hi Icarus_Night.

That is not the same problem at all. It is a Windows problem you have. Please repost as a new topic in the Windows XP section and we'll see if people there can help you to locate and fix the reason why Windows is not successfully loading on your system.

Thanks for the direction, Catweazle. :o I hope someone there can help.

Hi The beeping can tell you what it going on with your motherboard. Usually you hear a series of beeps like one beep the three beeps a pause and three more beeps and so on. What is your motherboard and the beeps is one thing you might want to find out.

Next you stated that you added a new video card. With out refreshing your BIOS it may be the problem of not receiving the Video.

Best way is to make sure that the video card is being reconized in the BIOS.

Peter if you lost sound it may be as simple as removing your sound driver and allow it to reinstall upon start up. Make sure that there are no duplicate drivers in safe mode. Usually drivers tend to duplicate when you remove them from the motherboard or that the orginal setting in Bios is set to an onboard or back to factory specifications.

Hope this helps Guys

RueB2sDe

You might try resetting your bios by removing the battery for about 6 seconds and restarting the computer.