howdy all, and first off thank you everyone for the responses to my question about my pop's monitor double blinking...... now i am having some difficulties. a couple of days ago my computer didn't want to boot up when i first turned it on. i hit the switch a couple of times and it finally came up. did it to me yesterday also. i will hit the switch, it will chatter a tiny bit, like it's trying to access the hard drive but then it quits. the power supply fan is going fine during this time. it won't try to read either my a or b drives at all. so today when i tried to start it up, it wouldn't do anything. i popped the case and looked around. i think the power leads going to my hard drive were loose. i pulled the plug and re-inserted it a couple of times. the first couple of times nothing, i could hear my hard drive whine just a bit but never go ahead and start spinning. finally it came on. oh, and also one of the times it had one long continuous beep. not any short ones, just one long beep. i know that means something but not sure what. so, what do you think?? hard drive goin south?? or cable??? i'm not really sure what to do next. because of finances i can't go out and upgrade yet but plan on it in the future, as of now my system is as follows: 486 cpu 170 meg ide hard drive dos 6.2 win 3.1 running memaker---and the system hates it, i just have been gun shy about removing it yet netroom memory management util.. i don't know, what else? (can't see brand name on hard drive) sorry if this is too general, holler with questions and i'll check.... thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.... now it's later in the evening and i noticed my cpu fan is dead. it's a new fan and even though i know they are cheap and can go out in a blink i still suspect something else, cables coming from power supply maybe??? thank you everyone, David A. Abbe [log in to unmask] _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]