Computer suddennly die?

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PcFreak14

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Whats goin on everyone? Well on friday i recieved a old computer from my cousin that was gunna throw it out. Its a compaq presario 5000. It says on the case for windows Me. He said that when it boots it shows a blue screen of death. Well after he dropped it off i took everthing out of the case and put it in a empty new HP case. After i installed everything and double checked,i booted it. I came to see that the boot screen was windows professional. It booted up fine and everything worked. I ran scans for virus's spyware and all that. Well it was fine over the last 2 days. Then i went down to grab a cd and i noticed the screen was black. Power save and all that is off, so i though somethings wrong. The HD activity light was steady so was the drive lights. I restarted it and the fans spin and the HD Act light stayed lit. But the hd didnt feel like it was spinning up. I tryed a diffrent power supply, changing ram.

Im not sure what to assume. Anyone have a idea.
This pc was only in my garage online and stuff but i really need to get it working.
thanks again,steve:)
 
Try another GFX or another stick of memory, and if possible, another motherboard. Look for loose items and blown capacitors too,
 
i would try booting to a diagnostic utility disk to run test on the hard drive just to be sure. If hard drive activity light was constantly on, i would look in that direction. You have to remember, bad hard drives can make the system do weird things. I've come across a few in my days.
 
johnb35 said:
i would try booting to a diagnostic utility disk to run test on the hard drive just to be sure. If hard drive activity light was constantly on, i would look in that direction. You have to remember, bad hard drives can make the system do weird things. I've come across a few in my days.
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But they still wouldn't stop it from booting.....

Diagnostics can be incorrect. I've seen threads and from my personal experiences. They say it's good, but I get format errors, ect.
 
Try something easy and take the hard drive out of the mix, unhook it from the cable and see what the system does. If it posts, then its the hard drive, if it doesn't, then its something else.
 
Okay well i tryied hooking first the hard drive just the power with no IDE cable and it spun up, turned off the pc and hooked the IDE cable and it wont spin up, tried different IDE cables,another power supply,but no matter what i have hooked up the pc will not show anything on the monitor,no post,it just goes into sleep mode and the screens LED is yellow, when it should be blue. I have another motherboard thats a little bit older and switch the processor out and see if its the motherboard. Let me know if you want the motherboard of the one i could use to see specs..thanks
 
Don't even hook power up to the hard drive and just try turning the pc on. Does it post like it should then?
 
Since you can't access the bios, see if there is a jumper to clear the cmos on the motherboard and see if it will boot then. Also try removing all pci cards, just leave mouse,keyboard, 1 stick of ram, video card of course. then see what happens. if all that don't do anything then most likely you have a bad motherboard.
 
Well i wont get a change to do what you stated johnb35 till tomarrow. But i took some pictures of the motherboard i was using and the other one i had laying around. yes i know there not the best.
 
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The first picture is the one from the compaq 5000, the other ones i had laying around.
i googled the compaq5000 motherboard to find that it happened to other people with this same model, i didnt find a reason or how to go about fixing it. lemme know if you guys search and find a result
 
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