Help! Computer locked up!?

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I'll try to be brief...but...I hooked up an old hard drive to my computer with the thoughts of reformatting it (it needs to be disposed of). I couldn't access the drive, however, so I hooked my drive back up and then all my computer would do is try to boot from my CD drive. Now I can't do anything with it. I reset all my bios settings to factory specs (which were basically how I had it set anyway - except for checking for a boot disk in the floppy and the CD) and now the computer won't boot at all and won't even enter setup. It does it's memory check and then basically locks up and just sits there. I checked the cable and the drive and even put them in another computer and they work fine.

Anyone got any ideas? My computer is running Windows XP.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

First thing you can do if you can't even enter BIOS setup is to remove your battery on your motherboard and move the CMOS jumper one pin over and leave it for 10 seconds. Move the CMOS jumper back in it's original spot and put the battery back in. This resets your CMOS and should gain you access to your BIOS again. The CMOS jumper is usually the jumper closest to the battery

Now that you have reset BIOS you need to enter setup and find your Boot priority list and change the settings to

first boot priority: HDD-0
Second Boot priority CD-Rom
Third Boot priority: None

Then Save and exit.

Now try and boot from your Hard drive.

Make sure the power cable is correctly fastned even though you already checked.

If you don't know how to locate the Boot priority or how the CMOS jumper looks like list try and search under google images with the phrase "BIOS boot priority" and "CMOS jumper" to give you an idea how it looks in BIOS and on your motherboard

? · Answer

feels like a scam, you do get viruses from shady web content. you may also get viruses from downloading stuff that is often free. i might want to have an expert remove the virus. There also are viruses that pretend to be anti virus application.

Help! Computer locked up!?

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