DIY PC Repair...?

[Adrian]

HI All Anybody here know anything about fixing 'dead' PCs - or maybe suggest an appropriate newsgroup where I can ask this question.

Thanks Adrian Suffolk UK

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

uk.comp.homebuilt

[Colin Wilson]

We might be able to help - how dead is dead ?

Any error messages ? beeps ? nothing but a black screen and no lights ?

[Dave Liquorice]

You had a thunder storm as well?

Kids computer now refuses to POST let alone boot. All power lines are present and correct, it'll power up/down fine, HD spins up but nothing else happens. B-(

[gort]

uk.comp.homebuilt. Lot of very good people on there.

Dave

[nimbusjunk]

Dell =A3199 ish special base unit is probably best option HTH Phil

[nimbusjunk]

Dell =A3199 ish special base unit is probably best option HTH Phil

[gort]

Err thanks Phil, but I build my own!!!!!

Dave

[Adrian]

Thanks all I'll ask over in 'homebuilt'...

Adrian

[meow2222]

have you checked the voltage of the cmos battery? May be all it needs. May be various other probs too, eg a faulty pci/isa/agp card.

NT

[Bob Martin]

Also, most modern mother-boards have 4 or 5 LEDs which display the stages of the boot process.

[chris French]

I had a similar problem recently, the PC would sometimes crash and then not POST - would always have to fiddle inside it. Eventually tracked it down to a dodgy video card - sometimes the fan on the card wouldn't power up (probably a dodgy power connector) and this stopped the machine in it's tracks (presumably an anti-overheating strategy)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Almost certainly a peripheral chip gone.

New motherboard time probly. If its recent the RAM and CPU chips may be reusable.

[Dave]

uk.comp.homebuilt

[Mighty Magpie]

You could try alt.computer

[Pete C]

Hi,

If a certain age mobo, something else to check is the caps:

cheers, Pete.