Are you seeing the Power On Self Test (POST) screen?  Doesn't sound like it. It differs by BIOS, but it shows the drives, amount of memory, and issues a beep when it is done.  If not, you have a bigger problem then a dead hard drive. You should be hearing beep codes during the POST that signal a bad CPU, bad memory, bad or not properly seated video card, among other things.  If you are getting no POST at all then your mobo may be toast.


gregory Moyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Pc will not boot. I have power, cd roms light, floppy does not light,
>monitor black with flashing cursor.  I suspect bad hard drive?
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