I just got a TOWER from my old bus driver, anyways, when I boot, the only thing I get is a screen stating the BIOS information at the top like it should at start up, and under that it says that it's checking the NV RAM. I let it sit for over an hour, and still nothing...

heres some infomation that might make a make a difference to somene.

I don't know if this is souposed to happen, but when to computer is off, the optical mouse stays lit, and will respod to motion by GETTING brighter.
When I got the tower, it didn't have a power button, so I put anotherone on, don't know how that COULD effect anything though
I put the video card, hard drive, cd drive, dvd drive and ram in my self, and they all work.

Motherboard: ASRock K7vtz
Ram: 2, 128 PC100 sticks
CPU: AMD duron 1300 GHz
HDD: 1, Maxtor 20GB
S3 ViRGE/DX video card
USB 2.0
Samsung DVD rom drive
BenQ 52x24x52 cdrw drive

Ok any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Was that tower a working computer when you received it or just the case and power supply? What about the power supply? Have you considered the possibility it might be bad or inadequate for the components you've installed? Can you see some specs stated on the power supply?I would unhook all the drives and cards except video and see if it works. You may need to set the BIOS options to failsafe for now.Well, I got the tower working, the jumpers were set worng on the hard drive, they were set to slave, and it was the only hdd in the tower. but now I am trying to put WIN 98SE on the computer, i have got to the part where I enter my product key, and the computer will go to a black screen saying "windows protection error, you need to restart your computer"uhg, nevermind, I will just put XP on it, my xp DISK is in my locker at school


Thanks for the help