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[Elliott Smith]

I've been having the same problem for a while, but I've usually been able to fix it.

When I try to start my computer up, it beeps a few times loudly, then the fan starts up and whirs very loudly, at what sounds like an abnormal speed. Then the fan keeps spinning very quickly, there are no more beeps, but the computer never starts up. Just a furious fan.

Now, what used to fix this was I would open up my computer and switch those two little doodads sort of near to a small, round, flat battery. Each is situated on two pegs of a set of three pegs. One doodad is labeled PASSWORD except something like PWRD. I'm not exactly sure. The other is labeled something like CRD. Like I said, they each sit on two pegs, but there are three. There are two sets of three pegs, and in each set, there is one piece of plastic straddling a pair of pegs, leaving one peg naked. So, if the three pegs in each set are called A B and C, and the piece of plastic stradles B and C, I switch it to A and B, and then back to B and C. And I do this for both pieces of plastic, meaning I do this at each of the two sets of three pegs. I'm sure this explanation was long winded, and hopefully you knew the parts I'm referring to without needing the explanation. Like I said, this used to fix it, but doesn't really anymore. Well, it worked earlier tonight, but about 5 min after I reached the desktop, the computer restarted, except it wouldn't restart back up. So now I'm stuck in the same old rut with a whirring computer fan in a computer that won't start up.

Does this problem sound familiar? I would really appreciate a surefire way to fix this, because switching those doodads back and forth doesn't fix it for good, and these days it isn't fixing the problem at all.

Thanks

Also, there was nothing big that happened that may have caused this. I simply put my computer on standby a few weeks ago, and it wouldn't come out of it. And this type of thing has been happening occasionally ever since. I don't go to porn, and I don't have weird programs on my computer. I'm a pretty safe computer user. Anyway, I hope you can help me!

[*MAFIA* Balthazar]

What's the brand and model of your system? I ask because it will give me an idea on what to look for concerning motherboard documentation. Those little doodads are most likely jumpers to specify different voltage settings for your system. If you can find the right configuration then you might be able to fix the issue.

[Lightning]

If its by the battery.  It sounds like the CMOS jumper.  Im thinking a hardware problem

[*MAFIA* Bonehead]

Eprom is either going bad or there is a hardware malfunction in a cmos control. Or you just may have a piece of boot ram going bad on a card.

[*MAFIA* Wasserfaller]

can you take a picture of it? That might help these tech guys, i have no idea what to look for though, sorry.

[SPARTAN420]

[SIZE="5"]if it won't startup, how did you make this thread?[/SIZE] and i know someone who is great with that. he fixed mine and put on XP!!!!

[*MAFIA* Wasserfaller]

[SIZE="5"]if it won't startup, how did you make this thread?[/SIZE] and i know someone who is great with that. he fixed mine and put on XP!!!!

A pubic hair has more sense than you, did you not both to read how he was able to turn it on? I really hope you spam something else or make another useless thread so you get banned.

@Elliot, like I said earlier a pic will be a lot of help, and if you're lucky maybe loaded will see this and give you some useful information.

[Elliott Smith]

[SIZE="5"]if it won't startup, how did you make this thread?[/SIZE] and i know someone who is great with that. he fixed mine and put on XP!!!!

I had this gut feeling that there had to be a least one other computer on this planet besides mine, so I started looking for it. Lo and behold, I found it 10 feet down the hall in my friend's bedroom. What are the odds????

[*MAFIA* The Cp]

format C:

[*MAFIA* Capsloc]

format C:

yeah dumbass that's gonna fix everything