Old Computer Wont go Past Loading screen?

I have an old computer that wouldnt go past the windows 98 loading screen the one at the start with the sky and the windows logo. I tyed many things to get it to work then finally just baught a new computer. What could be causeing it to not load and just stay on that screen. What should be replaced? or what can i do to get it to work again

does it just keep loading and not stop? do you hear any beeps before or during that screen? i remember having this problem with my old 98 computer as well. i had to reformat to fix it. yours may be a different case so don't reformat yet.

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ya it just keeps loading, that screen just wont go away and u cant do a thing on it i tried puting in a disk to re install windows and it wont run the disk until it gets past that screen and it wont go past. Its the very fist screen that comes up when i turn the computer on
....there might be a beep i cant remember mabye what would that tell me?

the beeps from the motherboard will tell you what is wrong. depending on the beeps, it can tell you what is failing. you can find the beep codes at your motherboard's manufaturer site. have you changed anything on it recently? did it jsut happen all of the sudden?

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never changed nothing i just shutdown my computer one day and the next day i went to start it and it did this...Tried long hours of getting it to work but nothing so i finally got a new computer. Ill try and get the old one hooked back up to a monitor to check for beeps where might a find the beep codes for an old hewlet packard 6545c?

hhmmm......do you think you can open the computer and check the mobo for a brand and/or model number?

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OK i turned on the computer and im not sure if this is a beep code but this is what it does

-Black screen
-then one big beep and a crunch crunch crunch loading noise
-then the blue windows 98 screen that appears for 2seconds on a normal computer, but in my case stays there FOREVER i havent bin able to get it working yet

Any suggestions on what i should replace

and that one beep is what always happend when i turned it on even from day one so i dont think its telling anything

yes, one fast beep is normal. one long beep it may be a problem.

do you hear clicking noises from your computer? i don't mean the crunching noises but an actual clicking noise, kind of like a mouse click.

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