Alright so I'm sitting at one of our computers last night and all of a sudden the power goes out. This afternoon I go to turn the computer on and its not getting past the GATEWAY screen to boot up.
After trying everything I could think of, I searched around the internet where I saw that someone suggested resetting the bios via the jumpers on the motherboard. My motherboard says to remove all jumpers to reset and then (1-2 normal) (2-3 config). I take the jumpers off and start the computer up and of course all I get is beeping. So then i turn it off and place the jumper in the 2-3 configuration and turn it back on. Amazingly, this seems to fix it. Rather than staying on the Gateway screen, the computer tells me I dont have a keyboard plugged in (which i promptly plug in) and then it tells me there was an error shutting down and i tell it to start in safe-mode. I got to the windows logon screen and thinking the problem had been fixed, I shut it down normally so I could reconnect all of my usb-devices and whatnot.
And then I turn it back on and its back to the Gateway screen and I cant get it any further! Ive tried it with different combinations of hard drives including drives that I KNOW work and no drive at all! Same thing every time. It just stays at the Gateway screen .. no matter what buttons I push, no matter if theres a cd in the drive, and no matter the bios jumper settings I try.
Can anyone figure this one out?
After trying everything I could think of, I searched around the internet where I saw that someone suggested resetting the bios via the jumpers on the motherboard. My motherboard says to remove all jumpers to reset and then (1-2 normal) (2-3 config). I take the jumpers off and start the computer up and of course all I get is beeping. So then i turn it off and place the jumper in the 2-3 configuration and turn it back on. Amazingly, this seems to fix it. Rather than staying on the Gateway screen, the computer tells me I dont have a keyboard plugged in (which i promptly plug in) and then it tells me there was an error shutting down and i tell it to start in safe-mode. I got to the windows logon screen and thinking the problem had been fixed, I shut it down normally so I could reconnect all of my usb-devices and whatnot.
And then I turn it back on and its back to the Gateway screen and I cant get it any further! Ive tried it with different combinations of hard drives including drives that I KNOW work and no drive at all! Same thing every time. It just stays at the Gateway screen .. no matter what buttons I push, no matter if theres a cd in the drive, and no matter the bios jumper settings I try.
Can anyone figure this one out?