My pc wont boot?

i turn it on and all u hear is a little humming sound. their r no beeps or any thing but that humming. its a custom built back in like 2002 that had/has win 98 on it. it has a 20 gb h-drive. 128 mb ram. the power light is on and the "processing" light stays on. i have to unplug it or hold down the power button like its frozen. as far as i no its never worked. it has all the wires a working power supply and all the standard hardware plugins.

Answers:
Is a chip issue i have seen it. 2 options replace mb and so on or get a new computer
sounds like the hard drive is not loading this can be caused by a loose wire harness
You say it's a custom-built? It's quite possible the person DIDN'T DO IT CORRECTLY. I suggest taking it to a computer repair place and having them take a look at it, see whether or not it's even FORMATTED.
faulty boot drive or corruped os
some options

1) get an XP or something

2) try to get your computer to the options menu Ex. pushing the esc key

3) R u sure your monitor is even working?

4) Keyboard working, (yes my computer has issues if it doesn't have a keyboard)

5) perform voodoo to get the virus out
I had this problem when I incorrectly installed a RAM chip, so maybe you don't have enough RAM memory, or it is installed incorrectly.
First of all who uses something as old as Windows 98 and second of all it is highly possible that your hard drive might be damaged! YOu haven't fully explained if you can at all all log in windows if you can then immeditely get rid of win98 AND install win2000 or above !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_dhsekd...

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