Stuck in the first stage of BOOT-UP

[pohui]

Having problem with my almost 5 year-old desktop, as it could not boot up and stucked in the first stage of booting.

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Here's the symptom: Whenever I press the ON button, the CDRW's LED will remained permanent lit (as illustrated in the videoclip) and at the meantime, there's this "wizzle" sound generated from the CPU.

Initially, I thought it's the CDRW that caused the problem, but having isolated it didn't solved the problem and the "wizzle" sound still remained.

Only later, when I unplugged the power cable to my floppy drive ("A" drive), the "wizzle" sound is gone and concluded at that point might be the floppy drive (since my boot-up sequence is from "A" to "C"-Hardisk, then "D"-DVD-Rom and "E"-CDRW).

Sad to say, the problem didn't solve at all when I try to replace a floppy drive, as at this stage, it's the LED of the replaced floppy remained permanent lit!

By this time, I had already unplugged any peripherals (except my video and RJ45 cable) from my mobo.. So what could I concluded from this?

It was only few hours earlier, i'm still using it as per normal.

[Hunter]

Huh. I dunno. Have you tried disabling the other drives in your BIOS then booting and see how far it got? I mean my first instinct is to say that there is a power error (what with the LED's and all) and that it's interfering with your boot sequence. My main questions are always, have you installed anything recently; has it been dropped; and what where you doing when you first noticed the problem.

I would try disabling your secondary drives from BIOS first, and booting solely from the hard disk. This is my advise based on the statement you gave that you have NO other peripherals plugged in to an USB port. A common problem is having an USB drive plugged in (or Flash Card) and not realizing it. Many computers will try to boot off of these and fail, but can't seem to recover on their own without a full reboot and removing the drive.

Tell me what happens after you try the steps above. BTW, video always helps. Good call!

Hunter

[pohui]

Huh. I dunno. Have you tried disabling the other drives in your BIOS then booting and see how far it got? I mean my first instinct is to say that there is a power error (what with the LED's and all) and that it's interfering with your boot sequence. My main questions are always, have you installed anything recently; has it been dropped; and what where you doing when you first noticed the problem.

I would try disabling your secondary drives from BIOS first, and booting solely from the hard disk. This is my advise based on the statement you gave that you have NO other peripherals plugged in to an USB port. A common problem is having an USB drive plugged in (or Flash Card) and not realizing it. Many computers will try to boot off of these and fail, but can't seem to recover on their own without a full reboot and removing the drive.

Tell me what happens after you try the steps above. BTW, video always helps. Good call!

Hunter

Hello Hunter..

As mentioned, I did try to disconnect the "relevant" peripherals but the problem is - the PC remained "stuck in the first stage of the boot-up process", thus there's not way for me to get into my BIOS.

I did not install any hardware nor it didn't suffer from any "concussion" before the whole thing happened.

It simply just happened when few hours earlier it was still working fine.. anyway, it's been with me for almost 5 years and I think it has served me well and deserved a good "rest" afterall

Thanks for your feedback, Hunter

[Hunter]

Yeah, unfortunately I'm gonna have to call this one a death from natural causes. Sorry Pohui