[akac]

Hi,
I have a system with these specs -
AMD AM2 Dual Core 4200+;
Gigabyte motherboard;
1GB RAM;
160GB HDD;
Installed Ubuntu Linux 7.1 and Windows XP;
One fine evening, I connected my external USB HDD (desktop hdd) to it, while running Windows. I removed the power to the HDD accidentally within a couple of seconds of connecting it. With this, the screen froze. There was some music playing which just stopped and repeated the last 0.5 seconds over and over. I thought that restarting the PC would solve the issue, but it's not! Ever since, when I power up the comp, the screen doesn't show anything , the mouse doesn't light up (optical one), the keyboard LEDs for num lock etc blink once during boot up and after that only num lock works - once in a while.
The hard disk works during this and the CD rom works. Please tell me what could be the problem
Thanks,
Akella

[LincolnSpector]

Hi, akac.

First, make sure that external hard drive is unplugged from the PC. I've seen that stop a boot.

Have you tried booting from a CD or DVD?



Lincoln