I had just recently installed a second hard drive (200 GB Western Digital) on my computer and had it up and running when I decided to install the newest version of Ubuntu. I had just set up the partions when I decided to let it install and went for a quick shave. When I got back it was on the Time configuation screen, and after attempting to select an option I noticed it was actually frozen (which has happened before with Ubuntu many times). So I restarted my computer, thinking, "no big deal." Apparently not so much..
After restarting nothing would boot. And by, "nothing", I mean literally nothing. Nothing was being sent to the monitor, it was giving me the, "no data", screen basically or was on and just blank. No happy-fun-time startup beeping noises, it didn't seem to be accessing the hard drives either. The CPU fan and other components were all getting power, it just wouldn't do anything. Although there was no monitor output, I'm pretty positive it wasn't even loading the BIOS. It wasn't making any of the usual startup noises and such...
I'm not really a hardware guy at all, so I don't really know what I'm doing. But anyone have any useful suggestions, things to check out, before I chuck the computer out the window? Is it worth it to get it analyzed by a professoinal (appx $$$ ?) and why do I get the feeling I'm not going to like many of these answers.. I really need my computer pretty much immediatly for work, and I'm hoping the hard drives are okay considering I have the last month's worth of work on there, which I was about to upload right before updating linux but thought better to save it for when I went to sleep. yay for me.<img src=smilies/retard.gif>
any help would be greatly appreciated.
After restarting nothing would boot. And by, "nothing", I mean literally nothing. Nothing was being sent to the monitor, it was giving me the, "no data", screen basically or was on and just blank. No happy-fun-time startup beeping noises, it didn't seem to be accessing the hard drives either. The CPU fan and other components were all getting power, it just wouldn't do anything. Although there was no monitor output, I'm pretty positive it wasn't even loading the BIOS. It wasn't making any of the usual startup noises and such...
I'm not really a hardware guy at all, so I don't really know what I'm doing. But anyone have any useful suggestions, things to check out, before I chuck the computer out the window? Is it worth it to get it analyzed by a professoinal (appx $$$ ?) and why do I get the feeling I'm not going to like many of these answers.. I really need my computer pretty much immediatly for work, and I'm hoping the hard drives are okay considering I have the last month's worth of work on there, which I was about to upload right before updating linux but thought better to save it for when I went to sleep. yay for me.<img src=smilies/retard.gif>
any help would be greatly appreciated.