Computer Dead - Help needed

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Evil Lemon

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When I went to shut down vista it went to the updating screen and was stuck updating 1 of 5 so I left it and went out. While I was out my mum saw it was still on so turned it off at the plug and now it wont turn on.

Everything seems to be getting power ok, all the fans are spinning and the leds on the motherboard are lit up so I'm sure its not the power supply its just the monitor doesn't turn on and I get no error beeps from the speaker.

I have tried unplugging all of the components from the motherboard leaving just the CPU, Graphics card and 1 stick of RAM and still no joy. Since I am getting no error beeps from the computer I think it is either the CPU or the Motherboard since they are the first things the computer checks when it turns on. So I replaced the cpu to check if it was that first, nothing happened again.

So my question is do other people think that it is the motherboard is faulty or do you think it could be the graphics card or ram that could be the problem?

Just so you know I've asked this question on other forums and yahoo answers, I'm just trying to get as much help as possible.
 
Could it be that it was still trying to update when you turned it off? I'm not too familiar with Vista and don't know if it would do that kind of thing when updates get interrupted.
 
It was still on the updating screeen but had been for a couple of hours so I'm guessing the computer had crashed. I know Vista is evil but I doubt it can kill a computer.

Anyway for a couple of weeks now the computer has been hanging when doing the self checks and has been hanging on the cpu phase and that is what let me to suspect the CPU, but as I say I'm still not having any luck.
 
That usually means the power supply's gone out. It seems to be somewhat of a typical problem, computers working then getting cut off, then not powering back up. If you could try a spare, I'd give it a shot.
 
I had totally discounted the psu because everything seems to be getting power, but someone told me that it could just not be getting enough power to boot up.

Only other computers in the house are dells, so its going to be a pain trying to get the psu out to my computer. Its worth a try.

Thanks,

Evil Lemon
 
I dont think its the power supply either, and ram very very rarely goes wrong, if its not your CPU either we can start to narrow things down. Did you set the BIOS to quick boot, try entering it. If theres no picture at all its likely, but not promising to be your graphics card thats fried, try instally your sapre one (if you have one). if you dont have a spare one buy one, there really cheap not, some obsolete 128/64mb one. If not you graphics card it coulb be your Mobo, this is common, there complicated things, try asking whoever made it for help and check if its in warranaty. the last thing to suspect is your hard drive, if its one of those brand new little solid state things, i doubt it s gone wrong. if its a normal one with disky thingys in it it may be that as they combine the 2 most unreliable creations of man into one little box, mechanical and electronic. last of all im very pleased that you had the sense to unplug everything but the core objects its a sensible approach to the problem

hope i helped and ill pray for your rig, Elron
 
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