Specs:
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Motherboard
Intel P4 3.6Ghz CPU
2GB Ram
700W PSU OCZ
Evga 7800GT GPU
80GB Hard Drive
Something strange is happening.
I was using my PC, everything was just fine. I shutdown, go to sleep, and the next morning when I turned my PC on, nothing booted. The GIGABYTE text showed up at the start and just froze there without loading any further.
I tried restarting a few times and with every restart, I heard a strange noise which occured only once after every boot up. I believe it came from the Hard Drive and sounded like a whirl noise of some sort.
That led me to believe that my HDD was dead.
This PC is fairly old so I decided to purchase a new Motherboard, CPU and larger HardDrive.
New Specs:
ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93Ghz E7500 CPU
160GB Hard Drive
-Memory and GPU left the same-
After putting in the new hardware and booting the PC up for the first time, sadly, the same thing. Strange noise from the new Hard Drive now, and nothing at all is showing up on the screen.
The monitor's standby orange light still glows and nothing loads. The Motherboards green LED light does light up, and everything seems to be running fine, however I cannot solve the mystery of why this PC doesn't load.
Please I need some assistance.
Thanks, Yuriy.
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Motherboard
Intel P4 3.6Ghz CPU
2GB Ram
700W PSU OCZ
Evga 7800GT GPU
80GB Hard Drive
Something strange is happening.
I was using my PC, everything was just fine. I shutdown, go to sleep, and the next morning when I turned my PC on, nothing booted. The GIGABYTE text showed up at the start and just froze there without loading any further.
I tried restarting a few times and with every restart, I heard a strange noise which occured only once after every boot up. I believe it came from the Hard Drive and sounded like a whirl noise of some sort.
That led me to believe that my HDD was dead.
This PC is fairly old so I decided to purchase a new Motherboard, CPU and larger HardDrive.
New Specs:
ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93Ghz E7500 CPU
160GB Hard Drive
-Memory and GPU left the same-
After putting in the new hardware and booting the PC up for the first time, sadly, the same thing. Strange noise from the new Hard Drive now, and nothing at all is showing up on the screen.
The monitor's standby orange light still glows and nothing loads. The Motherboards green LED light does light up, and everything seems to be running fine, however I cannot solve the mystery of why this PC doesn't load.
Please I need some assistance.
Thanks, Yuriy.