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Old June 25th, 2004, 06:11 PM
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Dead Computer?
I bought a computer from a friend who has conveiniently slipped off to the beach... but he'll be hearing from me when he returns:

The machine is an Athlon 1.1 GHz, SDRAM, NVidia GeForce 2. Think it started its life as a Compaq... anyway, the thing won't boot at all... no beeps, no video. i've tried just about everything with no avail:
took out RAM - was bad, replaced with new
reseated CPU
reset CMOS
changed video card
changed monitors
removed all other peripherals

While I was troubleshooting something odd happened. Before it would power on, fans and such, just without video and beeps. Now when I turned it on there would be only a momentary spurt of power before it died. I finally decided to dig up another power supply. I tried it, and got the same "blip" before it refused to proceed. Tried the original power supply on a new motherboard and without pushing the power button it made the mobo fan spin, but power button did nothing. Decided it was not wise to leave the power supply on this machine any more.

So i'm puzzled. Is it the motherboard? CPU? power supply? all of them?

Originally a wire from the power supply (1/2 an AT power connector) was hooked to a fitting port (1/2 [single] AT power port) on the motherboard. Never seen this...

Any insight would be much appreciated! Sorry for rambling so much!

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Old June 26th, 2004, 10:58 PM
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Troubleshooting a Dead/Unbootable PC -
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Old June 28th, 2004, 12:01 PM
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Check Memory,CPU, Power in another PC. There's no other way.
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Old June 30th, 2004, 04:58 PM
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I'm having a similar problem with an AMD 800Mhz.. im pretty sure it's the cpu. If you have another cpu sittin around (in a protective case of course) then slap it in and try it out. If that's not it try disconnecting everything thats unnessary like the hd's, cd-roms, floppy, sound card, network card. If that still hasnt done anything, try some other memory, cause that's another possibility but i dont think it would cause this major or a malfunction.
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Old July 6th, 2004, 02:28 AM
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freakishly it's fixed! my friend was messin with it cause i couldnt seem to get it to work. He switched the cpu fan wires to another couple pins and boom there it goes working. I'm proud of the kid. Usin his brains. Anyways.. yeah.. try switchin the cpu fan to another fan power thingy. Hopefully that will do the trick. Laterz
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