Model is Dell Dimension 8400
OS in none ( I wiped the hard drive )
Power light is amber which means hardware failure if I remember correctly
I failed to dual-boot XP and Ubuntu (it would boot straight to ubuntu so I made both partitions bootable at which point my PC froze and would not do anything including power off so I had to pull the plug after ten minutes. I plugged it in and turned it on at which the power light turns amber and the monitor says it is in power save mode and it will not wake up. I have hooked up another desktop and the monitor works fine. I tried to get it to boot an OS install disk but the tray sits idle. I have had this PC since I was little and do not want to give it up. Later I will be trying to swap video cards to see if it is a video card failure as well as do a boot with only minimum components to see if i can at least get into the BIOS
Any and all help is appreciated
Apologies if i sound clueless I am 18 and learning as much as i can about computers, they are my passion and soon to be my life's work
Sincerely, timothy.quick.us.il