Is it a Systemax? Do you need their tech support number?
Hrm. You may want to see if you can use a CD version of Ad-Aware and run it...you may have too many registry files in the registry.
If it is making a click sound every second or so, your HD is fried.
Also, turn it off and let it sit for about 5 minutes, sounds silly, but it has worked for me.
Good luck.
When you say “pinging”, do you mean it is making beeping noises during boot up? If so, those could be Post on codes, and may help diagnose the problem.
First, though, just double check your connections. Make sure your VGA cable going from the monitor to the computer is secure. I you have a slotted video card, make sure it hasn’t popped lose from the motherboard.
Then, if it is still not appearing on the monitor, check what those beeps are.
It’s silly, but double check the connection on the cable from the monitor to the computer if you haven’t already. It sounds like everything might be fine, you might get lucky and have it be a jostled cable.
You have a harware problem. The beeping noise and lights are telling you the boot sequence has been interupted.
That said, you may have a corrupted boot sector on your hard drive. If your computer is more than 5 years old and you haven’t performed any disk maintainence tasks, I’d say that’s the most likely case.
You can call TigerDirect if you have some time to kill but you’d be better off taking it to your local computer fix-it store. And if it is over 5 years old, don’t get it fixed, just get the files off it and copy them onto a new computer.
Sorry for the delay--I was traveling yesterday.
The Great Karnack says...
1. Hardware
2. Video card
Help needed:
I have AVG anti virus on my machine but have recently been getting threat detections for something called JS1 Dowloader_Agent. The program heals the file, but doesn’t seem to get rid of the virus because it’s still there when I run it again.
Anyone have any ideas how I can clean it out? The computer is really starting to slow down.