Ot - computer won't boot

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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com> wrote:

>
> Thank you for reading this and I know that this a vague  question but you
> may be able to give me a lead.
>
> For the past  couple of days my desktop computer has been very slow to
> begin the boot process, perhaps 5 minutes or so. Now it won't boot all.
>
> The disk activity led blinks at about a 3 second rate, the fans run, and
> speed up once the system warms, and I can measure 5 and 12 volts at the
> disk drive. There is no video from the on-board
> video chip (which is normal until the system boots up) and the system
> won't boot from the cd drive either. I've reseated various connecters and
> the ram board.
>
> So, the power supply and disk drive are propably ok which leaves the
> mother board, ram and cpu but how I determine which one is at fault? I'm at
> least a 1000km from civilisation so I cannot speak to service personnel.
>
>
> Sent from Samsung tablet.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil
>

Can you get to the boot level setup menu?
Once there, Is your system set to look for a bootloader on the CD drive?
Many systems aren't set to look to the CD drive if the hard drive times out
before booting up.  On those systems it has to be configured manually.
Don't assume that just because there is power to the disk drive and the
activity light is blinking that the drive isn't starting to/has failed.
ED
On the Mojave.

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