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PabloTeK

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Howdy all,

A couple of days my parents machine stopped booting. It showed no previous signs to warrant a problem. The only things that told us there was a problem were a lack of an image on the screen and no beep from the BIOS The machine is:

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
ASUS X7V8X
1GB Mixed PC-3200
ATi (Sapphire) Radeon 9000 64mb AGP
80GB PATA HDD
Phillips DVD+RW
TEC CD-RW

Any ideas chaps and chappettes?:confused:
 
So the computer starts up and doesnt go anywhere? Just stays blank? Im confused...lack of what image on what screen.

I had the same mobo and cpu setup like your for a few years. its not bad.



So you turn on comp and its blank. you cant even access BIOS setup??
 
It won't even access the BIOS, there is absolutley nothing on the screen, the monitors won't pick anything up, they go into a sleep state...

It'd worked fine for 3 years and then this...:confused:
 
unless some Guru geek on the forums has some magical way of fixing this issue without any visual data, i would have to recommend getting a new mobo for starters.

try taking the battery out of the mobo for 30 secs. let it reset. thats really your last option thats most likely wont work lol..

sorry pal. I think your mobo is busted.

try changing your power supply. You never know man.
 
i wouldnt necessarily say the mobo was busted, sounds more like a graphics card issue. I had a similiar problem in the past on an old pc where the graphics card never sat properly in its slot and could easily pop out a little this caused the screen light to briefly go green and then orange and never show anything on screen. Therefore i suggest you try reseating the graphics card and making sure its firmly in place and hasnt come loose.

Also is the power led on? are fans turning?
 
pull all the ram out of it, then turn it on and it should give a series
of beeps, if it doesnt beep the mother board is probably fubar
 
Ya try that with the RAM, because if you didn't alter anything else prior to this happening the RAM is most likely the culprit.
 
Wow...it could be any number of things. What condition was the computer in? Did you have any viruses, etc? Was it on 24/7?

Describe what happened the first time you tried to turn it on and it wouldn't start. Was there a spark? Did the fans spin up, then stop?

If you have a spare video card lying around, I'd switch them, or if not, you can buy an AGP card on Newegg really cheap. You might also want to switch out the PSU and the RAM, one at a time, of course.
 
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