Hard Drive and Optical Drive are not turned on when I try to boot the system.

MaxData

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Hi guys.

I have a Intel Celeron 2.4 GHz, 512 RAM, 40 GB HDD.

And I am having a problem.

Few days ago my Nvidia Geforce4 MX440 AGP8x graphics card was dieing.Simply, lots of artifacts, constant display resolution problems and ofcourse, the display shuts down every 30 minutes of work.

So, I found an older graphics card before I find a better solution.It was an ( pretty old ) ATi Rage 128 Pro Graphics.I inserted them, booted and blank screen.But then I remembered that I should go to BIOS and make my display work on PCI Graphics, not an intergrated one.

I did so and everything was fine.I installed the latest drivers for it and it was ok.But it was awkwardly slow.So I thought of those integrated graphics card.I disabled then uninstalled the ATi Rage Graphics I have and removed them.

Then, I remembered that I have not disabled the " boot from PCI option ". If I would turn on the PC, the display would be blank.

I tried to reset the settings in BIOS so my display would boot from VGA Graphics by removing the Battery on the motherboard.

Things suddenly became worse.When I turned on my PC , the Hard Drive and Optical drive ( DVD/CD ROM ) did not make any noise and POST messages ( beeps ) didn't make any noise.If I'd try to open the DVD ROM, it would not react and there is no LED flashlight response from it

And my HDD LED flashlight is constantly on, and the other LED flashlight ( the one which tells me the PC is working ) is not working too.

I tried to reset and replace the RAM.The only thing working is my CPU fan.

Please help me and I apologize for long text.