My computer won't boot

[Lilith]

Hi, I have a Dell Dimension 9200, windows xp.

It won't boot. First time I started it today I got to the user login screen, then the screen turned black, but the computer was still 'running'.

I restarted the pc, the Diagnostic lights 3 and 4 is solid green, and beep code 1-3-2, Nothing shows up on the screen. Yellow light inside the computer. So I assume something is wrong with the memory?

My computer is pretty old, and have been unstable for a while, so I don't really care for the computer, but i have 10GB of pictures there i must have.. Is there any way of getting these pictures back? Anything I can do myself?

Thanks for your time

(Yesterday I had collected all the pictures in one folder, and was about to copy them to my external hard drive, but I couldn't find the USB cable, so I decided to put it off till today.. Bad move..lol)

[Jarhed7276]

Hi Lilith. Welcome to TechIMO.

You can slave your hard drive to another pc and access your pictures then move them to your external hard drive.

[stroyal]

You could install the hard drive as a slave in another computer, or if your external is the same size, you might be able to use that.

Welcome to TechIMO!
edit
oops, too slow.

[Lilith]

Thanks for the fast replies.

I've never slaved a hard drive before, how hard is it? Is there any good guides?

[Jarhed7276]

This will show you how to slave a PATA drive:

Hard Drive Recovery Tutorial - How To Slave A Hard Drive

If you have a SATA drive this will help:

Add a Second Hard Drive

The second link shows the difference betweem SATA and PATA (aka IDE) drive.

[Lilith]

Thanks alot!