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Slowhand · 04-02-2003, 04:20 AM

I have an old HP 6340 It has an Celeron 333. I purchased this item new in June 1998. Over the years I have added a Maxtor 48 Gig hard Drive , a video card, and Soundblaster 5.1 sound card. Also added to sticks of memory to bring it up to 256k. I also went from Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro. It was always kind of noisey booting up and even running programs. Until yesterday I never had a problem with the system. During the afternoon it just shut itself off. There were no line surges or spikes while is was home. I looked at the Surgemaster connection and nothing tripped. The power lights to the printer and monitor were still on.
So I turned the system on. I heard the typical whirling and clicking sound it made when rebooting, however thats all it kept doing when I came back 10 minutes later thats all it was doing. At that point I sat there and watched for a few minutes more but nothing. So I decided to shut it off, but it would not shutdown using the on/off switch it just kept whirling and clicking. I would appreciate any replies to what is going on. I am a novice as far as technical issues go. Thanks in advance!

04-02-2003, 04:20 AM	#1 (permalink)
Slowhand Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Coral Springs , Florida Posts: 101	See today's most popular deals at » Help! Computer Will Not Boot Up I have an old HP 6340 It has an Celeron 333. I purchased this item new in June 1998. Over the years I have added a Maxtor 48 Gig hard Drive , a video card, and Soundblaster 5.1 sound card. Also added to sticks of memory to bring it up to 256k. I also went from Windows 98 to Windows XP Pro. It was always kind of noisey booting up and even running programs. Until yesterday I never had a problem with the system. During the afternoon it just shut itself off. There were no line surges or spikes while is was home. I looked at the Surgemaster connection and nothing tripped. The power lights to the printer and monitor were still on. So I turned the system on. I heard the typical whirling and clicking sound it made when rebooting, however thats all it kept doing when I came back 10 minutes later thats all it was doing. At that point I sat there and watched for a few minutes more but nothing. So I decided to shut it off, but it would not shutdown using the on/off switch it just kept whirling and clicking. I would appreciate any replies to what is going on. I am a novice as far as technical issues go. Thanks in advance!