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am_monkee:

Don't know if this belongs here, so apologies to mods if you have to move it.

I just decased my pc and mounted everything to a board. Since I have a cocktail cab, there's not a lot of room to begin with.

The problem is when I power up the computer, it turns on, but it does not boot. The monitor shows what appears to be a blinking underscore like this: _.

Did I just forget to reconnect something when I took everything apart? Or did I thoroughly screw my computer up? Anyone had this problem? The computer was working fine running on xp before I decased it. Thanks in advance.

4Aaron GE:

Hard to say what would cause that.  Incidentally, my new 'dumpster diver special' did that today when I was trying to get XP installed on it.  Strip the thing down to the bare essentials (RAM, mobo, CPU) and see if it will at least get to the POST screen.  Then hook the HDD back up and see if it'll boot.

leapinlew:

4Aaron is right.

How far into the boot does it go? Does it beep at all?

am_monkee:

it does beep at the beginning but then remains at the flashing underscore. I'll try to remove everything and then hook it back up. thanks.

leapinlew:

I've seen this if the memory isn't seated correctly.

At least your getting a beep in the beginning. 1 beep right?

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