Bah computer went into an endless loop without ever posting. Looks like I get to buy a new psu. I just finished building my computer desk too.
Bah computer went into an endless loop without ever posting. Looks like I get to buy a new psu. I just finished building my computer desk too.
Bah computer went into an endless loop without ever posting. Looks like I get to buy a new psu. I just finished building my computer desk too.
Be careful about opening pages from this site, i got a thing called a trojan
I gave up on it last night. I am hoping it is an easy fix. It may be time to upgrade the computer. It is going on 5 years old now.
I gave up on it last night. I am hoping it is an easy fix. It may be time to upgrade the computer. It is going on 5 years old now.
I hear you, they age so quickly now and prices for new have decreased so much. FWIW, the last three computers I bought (a laptop for the wife, a desktop for the household, and a netbook for my boy to use at college) came from www.newegg.com and we've been satisfied and you can find really good deals.
I work on them all the time. Depending on the power it had when it was new, 5 years might make it a dinosaur, or still useable for lots of things.
When you say it doesn't post, do you mean it doesn't get past the BIOS screen before it reboots? Or does it start loading Windows?
Powers up but nothing on the screen?
Homercidal said:It sounds like either MOBO or PSU. If you had a spare PSU to try that could save some headache.
But it could also be RAM or CPU, since either of those could have partially failed, allowing the board to start a boot sequence, but not get far enough along to generate screen output. Not as likely as a PSU gone bad, though.
Try removing everything that is not needed: HDDs, video card, DVD ROM, etc. If it's very weak, removing some of the load might allow it to boot. If it does (up until it warns about the video card anyway) then you know to replace the PSU.
If it still won't boot at all, then you are back to testing with a replacement.
check the heat sink on the cpu.Clean out the fans.Check to make sure the heat sink didnt come loose
Is it a Dell?
If it started right after moving maybe its as simple as the heatsync pulled off the CPU... although my moms did the same thing and it was the CPU that went out.
schmoe said:It really is amazing. Someone finds out that you have done something once, and now you are the expert.
What's wrong with the laptop?
Compaq. With that crap whenever the computer is turned on, the monitor turns on with a bunch of black lines across the screen and doesn't do anything. Hard drive doesn't spin.
I checked every last ribbon cable on the stupid thing and didn't find anything. I hate working on laptops. Everything is tiny and those ribbons are a PITA
Good luck. Those things are a PITA all around.
Sounds like the Video Card might be shot since it won't boot. If it was just a cable, it should still boot even with crappy signal to the display.
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