Return you system back you had it orginally. Boot up and just sit back and see if it corrects itself, give it 10-15mins., drink coffeee or soda, etc. or cut the grass.
If it stills sits but maybe shows some HD activity, leave it alone, until done. -OR- Boot-up and hit the F8 key to get menu for "safe mode" start-up, once in safe mode, aloow it to boot and finish, answer, "Yes" if so prompted to correct anything, allow to finish. Once done, reboot into normal mode and see if that fixed it.
Next time, place friend's HD on 2nd IDE port alone as master.
congrats '05 -----Willy ![]()
Hi everyone- here's what's just happened- I've got a P4 1.6 Ghz with a MSI MS-6524GL Mobo running xp pro with 256 mb RAM. The PC has two hard drives, everything was working fine last night. This morning I had to back up an old hard drive for a friend so I set his HD to slave and connected it to the second hard drive's cables. It started up but all the text on the screen out of place so I turned the system off, reconnected my second hard drive (so it was just as before) and turned it on again. The pc whirs up and I can hear the hard drive clicking (the hard drive light is on steadily too, which it shouldn't be). The monitor does not switch on though and the system won't boot up. What have I gone and done?
Thanks in advance, I need to know whats going on ![]()

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