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scottie322
Lv 6
scottie322 asked in Computers & InternetHardwareDesktops · 1 decade ago

My PC will not switch on - Help?

My PC will not switch on - when had this problem before pressed F8 and booted up but now only can press F2 and BIOS comes up but cannot work out how to start - all settings are on default but will still not work - any Ideas please

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    does the BIOS report any recognized hard drives?

  • Kurius_Kitten
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Unless you are willing to pay to have a diagnostic done on it somewhere, you may have to invest some time in troubleshooting this yourself. I've had this happen before, more than once. In one situation I needed to reinstall my O/S, something got corrupted and it would not let me load in. One other scenario is I had a bad stick of RAM and it would not let me boot past BIOS even though all settings were on default and I didnt' detect any error messages.

    Obviously trying to do a reinstall on O/S is easiest. Only way I knew I had a bad stick of RAM was getting a diagnostic test run at a PC store.

    Source(s): personal exp.
  • starpc11
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    check the hdd connections and the ram reset both and let us know

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    is it plugged in?

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