as you can probably see, it goes thru all the POST and self tests then just goes to dead signal and the screen starts flickering. It won’t even go into setup
it’s not a monitor problem, it does the exact same thing on 3 known good ones. Its not a floppy/cd conflict because I bypassed all those and it still does it.
what could this be, corrupted bios? bad mb? not detecting plug & play monitor?
If your bios was corrupt, usually itll make a bunch of beeping and wont even begin to post like that. Maybe its so incredibly dusty something is just overheating after 30 seconds of use? Tough call on that 1…
Try putting a windows cd in there to system restore. HD might just be bugging out. My buddy had a similar issue, where it looked like it was starting and going to work, then it just shut off when windows starting to load. A fresh install cured it.
If the hard drive is failing re-installing fresh on that drive is not going to help. It’ll just happen again and this time it’ll happen even quicker. The best idea would be to replace it if it’s failing. Find a copy of spinrite and put the drive in another machine to test it out.
by HD bugging out, i meant drivers and such when windows was loading not cooperating with eachother. I didnt mean the HD physically taking a shit. Im aware that there isnt much that can be done to save that lol.
My friends issue was switching HDs between mainboards constantly and eventually there were driver issues (or something) and the HD wouldnt load until there was a fresh install.
Then again this guy isnt switching harddrivers around…ah well.
I agree with the memtest and barebones boot as well. Oh the possibilities for an ancient pc!
