computer just died, help me please!!!

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lcsaeteurn

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I was roaming around on my computer, both tasking and doing other junk when my computer just suddenly lost the video(the screen went blank). I restarted it, but nothing, the monitor cannot pick up a signal not even from the bios. I had the monitor cable connected to a video card, so I tested the onboard video also, but still no luck.
Before the monitor lost signal, the speedFAN reading for the CPU was about 50c, which is high, but not the highest I've had it. The computer will turn on, but I've noticed that the LED on the front will no longer turn on. Please help me out, thanks and later then.
 
That don't sound good :(
When you hit the button do fans and all start spinning and does the hard drive make noises likes its booting just without and picture?
 
when I turn it on, the fans all work, the hard drive sounds like it's booting up, but the bios itself will not even show. by the way, here are my system specs:
processor: pentium d 820 2.8gb
primary drive: seagate 10gb
backup drive: seagate 500gb sata
ram size: mixed 2 512 pc3200
operating system: windows xp pro
optical drive: nec dvdrw
motherboard: ecs p4m800pro-m

let me know if more info is needed, thanks again.
 
Ok, looks like one of three, things

1) Your monitor decided to die, which is unlikely and if you have a second computer or borrow one then you can test to see if this is the problem or just use a spare monitor

2) Bad connection or the cable broke, test the cable, try reconnecting it at both ends or again use a spare one or borrow from a friend

3) If neither of the above are the problem then it looks fairly certain its your Graphics card, try some of the following, try reseating the graphics card in its slot, if that doesn't solve the issue then it looks like it broke/over heated (Does it have its own fan?, if so does it spin when computer is on. Again borrow someone else's or a spare one and see if this solves the issue.

You said that the hard drive and fans are all working so that suggests the computer is working fine expect it has no video read out. are there any beebs coming out of the computer?

Also you said about trying the on-board video, if I am right, I believe that VGA won’t be active unless there is no graphics card in the motherboard slot, i.e. if the BIOS detects a Graphics card in its AGP or PCi-e slot then it will deactivate the on-board video, so take out the graphics card and then try the On-board.

Hope we can get you back and running again.

J_D
 
checked the monitor, it's fine, monitor cable is fine also, I checked the graphics card with another computer, and it's fine, the onboard video was also tested without the video card attached, same result. the video card does not have a fan, it's a fairly old one and only has a heatsink on it. there are no beeps, but I've been testing it a lot lately and found that it does power up and the computer does start almost every try, but will only stay on for about 30 seconds before it loses video again. When the bios comes on, it makes a beep, then another one when the windows xp logo comes up, that's as far as I can get it. the weird thing is that the same thing happened to one of my older computers', it turned out to be either the motherboard or the cpu, I tried replacing the cpu, but I didn't know what I was doing at all, so I gave up. thanks again for all the help so far, I truly appreciate it.
 
Hmm, this doesn't sound good does it.

Well we can check the RAM very quickly, even if it turn up ok, it’s another thing to rule out.

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

This is what I use to check my RAM, which I now do every so often because I have before suffered an OS corruption due to bad RAM.

Everything should be self explanatory you will need either a floppy drive or a CD drive, (And a spare computer to make the bootable media). if your computer works fine while checking then there is a good chance its the memory or Hard drive, as firstly the hard drive is not accessed during the testing, and all RAM space is used for testing not loading OS in to it.

However even if this step doesn't help solve the issue it will at least confirm if the RAM is ok. So it’s somewhere to start

J_D
 
lcsaeteurn said:
checked the monitor, it's fine, monitor cable is fine also, I checked the graphics card with another computer, and it's fine, the onboard video was also tested without the video card attached, same result. the video card does not have a fan, it's a fairly old one and only has a heatsink on it. there are no beeps, but I've been testing it a lot lately and found that it does power up and the computer does start almost every try, but will only stay on for about 30 seconds before it loses video again. When the bios comes on, it makes a beep, then another one when the windows xp logo comes up, that's as far as I can get it. the weird thing is that the same thing happened to one of my older computers', it turned out to be either the motherboard or the cpu, I tried replacing the cpu, but I didn't know what I was doing at all, so I gave up. thanks again for all the help so far, I truly appreciate it.
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Don't give up.

Older video card's didnt need an fan, they didn't creat enough heat to make one.

I am looking at blown capacitors on the motherboard, overheating.
 
you could try uplugging the power from the back and then resetting the bios somehow (shorting the jumpers or leaving the battery out for half an hour or so) then try turning it on again.
 
so I tried to reboot the computer again this afternoon, and it turns on but the bios will no longer load, I tried removing the battery and jumper and leaving them off for about 15 minutes, but nothing. I think I did blow the compacitors on the motherboard, the speedFAN reading was only showing me the temp for the processor and not the motherboard. I even unplugged the power cable to the two backup drives because I thought it might be the power supply not being powerful enough to handle all the different drives, but no. guess it's time to get a new computer.
 
Definatly sounding a lot more serious, if you buy a new computer or build one, you might be able to salvage components from this current computer. I.e RAM and Hard drives. but that depends on the spec of a new computer.
 
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