Update of why my computer won't boot up

mrs2000

After having experienced several blue screen dump crashes today my computer now won't come on, the hard drive tried to kick in once after this but I received a long continuious beep and now the green power button lights up and the cd drive kicks in but that's it nothing else happens, up until today I could at least use my pc for a while after a couple of attempts to boot

Original post

I have recently been having problems with my Compaq Presario Pc with windows 7

It is just over a year old and the problem is when I turn it on I can hear the fans and the cd drive light kicks in but the Hard drive does not, normally a little orange light comes on.

I have taken my computer into work for an It technician to have a look and it always booted up for him so he did some checks and said everything was fine, but when I got it home I continued having the same problems.
Again I took it in to him with my Monitor but like before always booted up for him. the only problem he could think of was the power, I used to run my Pc and monitor from a surge protected Y cable which was plugged into a surge protected extension lead, I have since changed this to a single lead for computer and monitor from a different wall socket, this worked for one day then I continued having problems.
I have since changed the power pack in the computer but still having problems. The It technician seems to think it is the motherboard and advised me to buy a new pc which I don't really want to do after only having this one for one year

danthemoneysavingman

you've tried plugging it all in elsewhere in your house then, without adapters and such?
what did the bluescreen info say?
if it works fine elsewhere it does point to being an environment issue, i.e. in your house is the problem...?...

johnmc

1 long beep indicates a memory fault. Replace the RAM.

http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/compaqbeep.htm