Computer hangs during boot up

[dragondave]

I have a machine that hangs during booting up. It's Win 98 second edition machine with an Intel Celeron 533mhz processor in a peer to peer network. I checked the hard drive it works fine in an identical machine. It hangs when it checks the CD-ROM, the LED stays on instead flashing. I can't boot from the start up disk or CD. I can get into safe mode either or BIOS. What can I DO?

 

[dragondave]

The first post should have read "can't get into safe mode or BIOS." Also, the monitor is completely blank.

 

[jimcr]

You say your monitor is blank , kind of sounds like you have a problem with the video
card. try another video card and see if you get video.
A dead video card will not allow a computer to boot.
Does the computer give any beep codes such as a long tone followed by two short ones?

 

[Mulga]

If the above fails..
As it appears to happen when detecting the CDROM, disconnect this. I have known a faulty CDROM drive to cause this problem

 

[Chrissirhc]

Have you changed anything since this problem has occured?

I would open case turn on check fans are working by looking at them. Two other comments are fine. Check all cards are seated in correctly, and check ram is seated correctly. If you've been inside your computer previously you may have knocked something. I'd personally do the fans first then mulga, then reset bios (refer to motherboard manual), then different graphics card.

Cheers

Chris

 

[dragondave]

Thanks for you help guys. I checked at the cards, no video card. The main board has on-board 128-bit 2D/3D 100MHz Host interface AGP Graphics Accelerator. I tried to reset the bios according the manual but monitor is still blank. The fan is working. Can I just instal a graphic card and disable the on-board interface?

 

[garwain]

yeah, just throw in a vid card and check the motherboard documentation to find out which jumper would disable the onboard vid card.