At times after I've put my system back together after upgrades/maintenance etc, My Lite on-CD drive bay has a bug that it opens on its own during boot and won't stay closed after I get the system back together. In the past, I've powered down the system, opened the case and pulled the power cable off of the drive, waited 30 seconds, plugged it back in, powered up and the drive acted normally again. It's happened plenty of times and is annoying, but no big deal. Like I said, only after an upgrade.
Well, last night after a successful upgrade...I got lazy...and real stupid.
The drive, as usual after an upgrade kept popping open. WHILE THE SYSTEM WAS ON and the side panel off, I unplugged the drive...waited 30 seconds and made the move to plug that drive back in. The moment the plug made physical contact with the socket on the back of the drive...the entire system instantly powered down.
I started sweating. I gave it 60 seconds, and powered back up. When she powers up now, it identifies the bios, chipset, CPU, clock settings, performs the memory check, identifies the primary and secondary masters and slaves....and it goes no further. (I guess that's called posting?) It just sits there on that initial screen with all the identifying info. It doesn't seem to be even attempting to boot. I've done nothing else, because I really don't know what to do...
There are no irregular beeps of any kind. I CAN get into bios.
Tell me there is a minor fix for this. Tell me I haven't screwed myself.
Epox Nforce 2 motherboard, Windows XP, AMD Barton 2500.