[TriLUG] No BootUp; Need help.

[Jturena]

I came home from the installfest after getting a modem dial-up connection up and running, (BY THE WAY, THAT WAS A GOOD TIME. CAN'T SAY THANKS ENOUGH TO THOSE WHO ORGANIZED AND SET IT UP AND HELPED.), but now that I have re-hooked-up my computer and click the Power button on the box, it doesn't seem to be going through the booting up process and nothing appears on the monitor.

(I have the monitor/keybrd/ms cables hooked to a KVM switch, and the 'switch' using the keyboard keys will not switch back from that machine after I have 'switched' it to that machine from another machine. I have to switch it back to the working machine, manually, using a button on the KVM box, instead of using the hot keys on the keyboard.
Apparently the computer never went through the boot process, even as the monitor was blank.)

But besides the KVM thing I would like to find out what is going on with the power and bootup.
The power button will shut off the computer. And the 'reboot' button doesn't seem to make it reboot.
Of course, I am just listening to the machine since I can't see anything.
It gets power and a green light comes on, but it just seems like it is with power and not going through the bootup process.

Before I left the Installfest, I used this command to halt the "checking for new hardware" process during bootup:
" chkconfig kudzu off "
Would that be affecting things; making it behave like it is?
I am getting nothing but a black screen after having all of the cables hooked up and hitting the power button "on".

To make matters even more perplexing: as I was driving home, I took a sudden stop on I-40 (because there was a construction barrel in the highway lane), and my computer slid off my front seat onto the floorboard---but it wasn't a terribly hard jolt.
But if this is not a commom problem, maybe something inside was broken during that spill.
Any help?
Thanks in advance.
Jim Urena