I have a gateway computer with a 2.8 MHz P4 w/ HT that stopped working. When booting, it gets stuck on the 3.5" floppy drive & just loops back to that divice & won't continue booting. I've tried disconnecting all my cards & the floppy & still get no bootup. The light on the motherboard does come on so is it the processor?
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Jump to Postyour pc has died and you must get a new motherboard-- (just kidding!!)
It seems like one of the boot devices is messed up. Try running the pc with only: case, mobo, video card, cpu with cooler, one stick of ram, one hard drive, keyboard, mouse and monitor, and …
Jump to Postwhat is that number. what is the model of your mobo?
Jump to PostGo in the bios and remove the option to to stop on any error. Most times it defaults to keyboard or floppy. set it to none. and disable searching for floppy.
Jump to PostI have stripped the computer down & it still hang-up on the 3.5" drive on startup. When I disconnect the 3.5" dive, it still hanges up at the point it should be recognizing the 3.5" drive durring start-up. Also, there's a light on the motherboard that does come on when …
Jump to Posta bad power supply could act like this .
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