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| Thread ID: 67338 | 2006-03-24 23:22:00 | PC wont start | Nyuuji (5460) | Press F1 |
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| 440458 | 2006-03-24 23:22:00 | Mate dropped off his sadly departed PC last nite. Just suddenly stopped booting up. Compaq Presario S3060AN, about 2 yrs old. XP Home, Athlon XP processor 2200+, 512 RAM, 40GB HD. After switching on, the PSU fan, cpu fan and case fan all kick in, but there is no BIOS beep and nothing at all comes up on screen. Have tried with 3 different moniters, same result. Wont even bring up BIOS screen, and wont boot from XP cd either. I believe no BIOS beep means its hardware related. Can anyone give me some clues about how to proceed from here? What can I do to check hard ware? Btw, removed hard drive and slaved it to my machine to recover important data (Documents, email etc.), and the hard drive seems to work ok and was able to copy all data easly. Thank you. |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 440459 | 2006-03-25 00:02:00 | Try another videocard. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 440460 | 2006-03-25 00:07:00 | It has onborad video,so Do you mean try plugging in an AGP card to see if the onboard graphics are kaput? |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 440461 | 2006-03-25 00:14:00 | It has onborad video,so Do you mean try plugging in an AGP card to see if the onboard graphics are kaput? Yup, thats what I mean . Not all BIOS'es beep btw . Like this one . It used too, but it used to beep for every USB device, that was plugged into it lol . (ie: which is 5 here) . It got rather annoying! So, ASUS in a BIOS update, killed the beeps altogether . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 440462 | 2006-03-25 00:43:00 | Tried the working AGP card from my machine (9200 SE), but no change. (I would have thought that I would need to install drivers and disable onboard graphics in BIOS settings) Anymore things I can try, other than a new motherboard? Thank you. |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 440463 | 2006-03-25 00:58:00 | Have you tried another power supply? I know the fans work but they're on a 12v supply rail. The processor runs on another rail (5V-I think) If that rail isn't working then the PC aint going to boot. Btw, don't open up the Power supply, mains rated voltages in there. A new one is relatively cheap, about $35 and up. | sinndisco (4059) | ||
| 440464 | 2006-03-25 01:03:00 | I got a spare PSU, i'll give that a go then. | Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 440465 | 2006-03-25 01:27:00 | Tried spare PSU, but no change. Thanks for suggestions ppl. Anything I havent tried yet, but should? If the RAM was faulty, that should still not stop the BIOS screen coming up should it? |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
| 440466 | 2006-03-25 01:36:00 | Ok. Take everything out except the PSU/ram/CPU/hdd/videocard (well u cant since its onboard). Then see what happens. Has the mobo got an ATX 4 pin connection?? If so, is power connected to it? I would also check the hdd cables, if any are SATA. They come out easily. And make sure power adapters are plugged in properly. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 440467 | 2006-03-25 01:38:00 | Ok, ill give it a go now Speedy. | Nyuuji (5460) | ||
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