Urgent : Computer Won't Boot Up

[marka87uk]

Was using it and it froze, so I rebooted, and now, nothing.

The monitor light is flashing so I guess it's not receiving anything. The fans spin up and I think so does the hard drive; but before where they would spin up, then down, then you could hear the hard drive spinning up; now they just stay on. Nothing from the hard drive activity light. The error reporting on the mobo is showing FF... all manuals etc are in the loft but I seem to recall that meaning everything was ok, or everything had failed.

Any ideas? I have a lot of data on the drive I really need to get back and I think it's more of a hardware issue such as the mobo. I don't even have any other hardware I can try.

 

[marka87uk]

Thanks for the help, as I said I have no other hardware to test with and my SATA HD won't be supported on the other computer in my house... but, for some strange reason it's working again!

I disconnected the HD, booted up and "hmm, it's actually booting up and asking for a disk...?!" ... so I shut down again, connected up the HD (praying that it wasn't the HD which had somehow died), and it booted up as normal! Just backed all my stuff up (phew), and it seems 'normal'. I'm thinking the mobo fan or some other fan is more noisy than usual but could be because I have the case apart!

Anyway, thanks.