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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject: Dead computer, please help. |
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I push power and the power supply and all the fans get working. The keyboard lights flash once. The dvd drive accesses a bit. The mobo light is on and green.
There is no signal to the monitor. I try the keyboard shortcut to shut it down again, thinking maybe xp loaded but there's nothing. The xp startup sound didnt play anyways.
I remove the case. The cpu fan was not fastened securely. It was on it but not locked in over the cpu.
I was thinking of goin to get a new mobo and cpu.
Anyways, any help appreciated. |
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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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amd 2 windsor 3800+
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Demophobe

Joined: 17 May 2004
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Why wasn't he fan on properly? Is whatever holds it on broken? I am unfamiliar with AMD heatsink mounts. Did you put it back on? Reseat the graphics card? Check your RAM modules?
As far as I know, the CPU would shutdown before it fries. |
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inthewild
Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Possibly it was disengaged or whatever when the desk was flipped over months ago. It isn't broken, I secured it again today. I put it back on.
After checking what you suggested I found that one of my ram modules was done for. The computer is now working again and I have an excuse for a minor upgrade I guess.
Thanks for the reply. |
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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You're in luck. RAM couldn't be cheaper at the moment. Get 2GB's of quality RAM for 36,000. Or even 4GB's if you want to be future-proof. |
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