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Troubleshooting
You have no power to the system or monitor
etc.
The system will not boot up from the hard disk
when switched on.
The floppy disk drive does not work
The system boots up but there is no display
in the monitor.
Message appears on the monitor telling me I
have a General Protection Fault. (screen blue, white writing)
- You have no power to the system or monitor
etc.
This is very frustating, you have just built the system, switched
on and nothing happens.
- Check the power lead is connected to the computer.
- Check power lead is plugged into mains. (simple but common mistakes)
- Check the fuse in the plug.
- If none of these work check the mains lead either swap it or
try plugging it into a kettle.
- Go back and check all connections inside the case.
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- The system will not boot up from the
hard disk when switched on.
- Boot up from floppy emergency startup disk in the floppy drive.
- Press DELETE on start up and enter the SETUP programme.
- Does the system know the type of hard disk installed and save
to CMOS. Select Auto detect hard drive and save settings on exit.
- If these don't work try checking how you configured the hard
drive.
- Is the jumper set to master or slave?
- Has the hard disk been fdisked and formatted?
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- The floppy disk drive does not work
- Does setup know there is a floppy drive?
- Is it set as a 1.44mb Floppy disk drive?
- Is the twisted pair cable connected properly?
- Does the side with the red stripe connect to pin 1?
- Is the power cable connected to the drive?
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- The system boots up but there is no
display in the monitor.
- Is the monitor plugged in?
- Is the contrast and brightness turned up?
- Is the monitor cable connected to the graphics card?
- Is the graphics card fitted correctly into its slot, try taking
it out and reseating it again.
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- Message appears on the monitor telling me I have a General
Protection Fault. (screen blue, white writing)
- There may be a virus in the system, run a virus checker.
- May be a faulty hard drive.
- Check configuration of hardware, in particular look at the jumper
settings of the EIDE devices (hard drives and cdroms).
- The CPU could be over heating, if the fan fails the CPU overheats
and Windows closes the system down.
- Run scandisk. This checks the drive for integrity and bad sectors.
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