Hi Jim; Thankyou for the tips. Take care. Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Redding" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer won't start Mike we are seeing quite a bit of pin corosion problems due to the damp weather this summer. If you can do it I would suggest that you unplug the power supply cable and the ribbon cable from the hard drive and clean the sockets and pins with contact cleaner. Of course you gotta git inside the box and you gotta be careful. good luck Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Barbara Arcadia" <[email protected]> To: "Blind Computing" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:58 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Computer won't start > Hi All; > > I am running XPSP3 Pro & Jaws 10 on this machine. After assigning Notepad > to open .txt files and Outlook Express to open .eml files some strange > things happened. First, when I tried to open an .eml file, when I would > press enter it would take me back to my Inbox. I thought after making these > changes I had better reboot and that is where it really got strange. I gave > the computer the commands to restart and it wouldn't, then I did a hard > shutdown, and when the computer shuts down there is a ticking sound coming > from the computer, like a clock ticking. When I try to start it up a screen > comes up showing the computer specs and a message to " press DEL to enter > SETUP ." This doesn't do anything. I plugged in a USB mouse so my wife > could possibly click on " DEL " but, the mouse doesn't seem to work either. > I tried to start it in safe mode and it comes up with the same screen that > gives all the computer specs like what kind of RAM, processor speed, and > things like that. Oh, and that message to "press DEL to enterSETUP ". Does > anyone have any ideas on what I can do to get Windows started? All help > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks much. Take care. > Mike > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
