[holymoly]

Power up, and I can hear the drive spin and search for about 5 seconds, then it dies.

I don’t have a “boot disc” or the ability to F* out of the boot up.

Any thoughts on this would be greatly accepted.

Do you see the POST screen?

As someone else mentioned, you may need a boot disk (assuming your system can still boot from an optical drive, and the BIOS boot-sequence will allow it). A Puppy Linux live CD or the System Rescue CD might be of use.

[The Cajun]

Had this happen on a relatives desktop 2 months ago, reseated the memory boards, took care of the problem.

Went on afterward and CAREFULLY cleaned the memory card contacts (2 mem boards), no reports of trouble since.

Original symptom, it would hang on boot up, wouldn't get to Win start up screen, Hd would stop spinning (Win 7 OS).

[Zeneta]

OK, So, I fired this POS up for the first time in months.

I get no video image, Nothing.

I hear about 3 to 5 seconds of a hard drive spinning up and it stops.

I get blinking lights from the “Caps lock” and “drive working” with no spin of the hard drive.

Keep in mind this just happened out of the blue.

If I got a boot disc, I’m not even certain that it will pick it up.