Failure to boot!

[Northern Skies]

I think there's a hardware problem:

-computer froze. ctrl+alt+del unresponsive.
-MAY have something to do with something being dropped against the case, tapping it lightly. That happened before it froze.

-I hit reset button. Here are the symptoms:
1. does NOT beep on power-up.
2. monitor remains on standby. does not get signal.
3. num lock led on kboard responds.
4. optical mouse lights up, and brightens on movement, while plugged into mouse port. When taken out of adapter and plugged into usb port, no light.
5. USB wireless adapter has no lit LED's
6. I can hear both CD drives running. I can't hear the hard drive but it's really quiet anyway.
7. power supply fan and CPU fan run.
8. LED on motherboard is lit.

that's about it. The computer turns off after holding the power button for a few seconds, not right when it's pushed.

Thanks for the help, I really can't figure this one out.
Cheers!

[kzcvtm]

If the computer does not beep at all on the power up, the CMOS mabe be dead or the motherboard has gone belly up.

Open up the case, with the machine unplugged, remove the memory chips, plug the PC in and try to power it up. It should start beeping if it is able to do the POST (Pre Operative System Test). If not, your motherboard is toast. Replace it and you should be good to go.

[Northern Skies]

So, I played around with everything to make sure it's tight, even took the ram out and put it back in.

Computer boots into BIOS utility. Message says that it hung due to improper CPU speed setting.

I exited the bios, and it booted as normal. Everything seems to be working fine now.

Thanks!

[andyf]

yeah,
Overclocking your CPU can make your computer unbootable
and/or simply fry your CPU so better keep it under the limit.