I have a Compaq Presario sr2020nx.
The hard drive was making an awful noise for a few weeks and then it just quit working. I ordered a new Western Digital 500GB Caviar hard drive and installed it.
Now when I turn the computer on nothing happens. I just have a blank screen. No bios screen appears and nothing happens when i put cd's in the rom drives.
Both roms light up but nothing happens. The cpu fan comes on. The monitor light stays orange as if the computer is off. When I unhook the monitor cable it immediately turns green and the monitor kicks on showing cable unplugged. When I plug the cable back in it goes straight back to an orange light and blank screen.
Any clue what this might be? Bad Bios? need a new battery? did I fry the mother board? What should I check or try? Why will the BIOS screen not come on?
I have changed hard drives before and normally I just install it and put the Windows XP cd in the drive and format it.
no clue what is going on here.
The hard drive was making an awful noise for a few weeks and then it just quit working. I ordered a new Western Digital 500GB Caviar hard drive and installed it.
Now when I turn the computer on nothing happens. I just have a blank screen. No bios screen appears and nothing happens when i put cd's in the rom drives.
Both roms light up but nothing happens. The cpu fan comes on. The monitor light stays orange as if the computer is off. When I unhook the monitor cable it immediately turns green and the monitor kicks on showing cable unplugged. When I plug the cable back in it goes straight back to an orange light and blank screen.
Any clue what this might be? Bad Bios? need a new battery? did I fry the mother board? What should I check or try? Why will the BIOS screen not come on?
I have changed hard drives before and normally I just install it and put the Windows XP cd in the drive and format it.
no clue what is going on here.