hard drive full, computer starts but nothing on monitor

by tagskis Aug 29, 2010 6:21AM PDT

went out of town and my friend decides to download video files, ignoring the low disk space warning. he said the computer froze, I assume it was after the drive ran out of space. after trying to restart by holding in the power button the system seems to try and start up but nothing is appearing on the monitor. usually see lights flash on the caps lock,number lock, scroll lock before the monitor lights up... not seeing that now.

windows xp sp2, emachines t6520

wasn't smart of me to let the hard drive get so full but I always deleted a few gb's when needed, he didn't and now here I am oy...

any help will be greatly appreciated

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Re: disk full

by Kees Bakker Aug 29, 2010 7:45AM PDT

Find your XP disk, boot into the recovery console and use your (old MS-DOS-like) command prompt skills to delete unnecessary files.

Kees

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why doesn't the comp connect to the monitor though?

by tagskis Aug 29, 2010 8:25AM PDT

thanks for the fast reply, I'll have to dig around for the xp disk but does the full hard drive make it so the monitor won't work? that is my biggest concern at the moment, wondering why the computer isn't connecting to that. monitor works fine, hooked it to my laptop to check it.

figuring out how to ms-dos command my comp to delete files will take a little research.

thanks

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A full hard drive has nothing to do with ...

by Edward ODaniel Aug 29, 2010 8:35AM PDT

nothing appearing on the monitor (by nothing, I assume you mean not even the BIOS information)

You need to check the monitor cable.

You do mention "usually see lights flash on the caps lock,number lock, scroll lock before the monitor lights up... not seeing that now." and that would appear to indicate that the problem is with the power supply or the motherboard or even the processor.

hard drive full, computer starts but nothing on monitor

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