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
DIY PC Repair...?
Jul 05, 2006
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uk.comp.homebuilt
We might be able to help - how dead is dead ?
Any error messages ? beeps ? nothing but a black screen and no lights ?
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-(
uk.comp.homebuilt. Lot of very good people on there.
Dave
Dell =A3199 ish special base unit is probably best option HTH Phil
Dell =A3199 ish special base unit is probably best option HTH Phil
Err thanks Phil, but I build my own!!!!!
Dave
Thanks all I'll ask over in 'homebuilt'...
Adrian
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
Also, most modern mother-boards have 4 or 5 LEDs which display the stages of the boot process.
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)
Almost certainly a peripheral chip gone.
New motherboard time probly. If its recent the RAM and CPU chips may be reusable.
uk.comp.homebuilt
You could try alt.computer
Hi,
If a certain age mobo, something else to check is the caps:
cheers, Pete.
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