need troubleshooting help

[Balton]

my pc doesnt work anymore.

the thing starts but doesnt show me anything on my monitor. I also get no windows starting sound so I assume that the pc turns on but doesnt do anything else.

I'm pretty lost with such hardware problems. Does anyone know what to do?

 

[Rukee]

we need more info. Can you give the complete system specs including the age of the rig?? Does the fans start?? are there any beep codes?? Do you see any post screens at all??

 

[Balton]

we need more info. Can you give the complete system specs including the age of the rig?? Does the fans start?? are there any beep codes?? Do you see any post screens at all??

I've upgraded this system so often... I can't tell you an age.



since I can't access dxdiag I'm not too sure what I've actually got in my pc. there's a geforce ti4200 in there and some amd chip and a 512mb ram chip...

the fans start
no beeps

the screen stays dark
the monitor stays in power saving mode

 

[MassChAoS]

Try re-seating the graphics card. If it has an embebbed graphics card, try connecting the monitor to it and see if it reverted back to the embebbed card. Try another graphics card.

 

[Rukee]

Yes, reseat everything, if that don`t work, try to remove everything from the motherboard sept the power supply, CPU, the video card and the memory. It should boot to the post screen and then stop with no OS installed. If not, try to remove the memory and start it up again, you should get a beep code, if not, then it may be the power supply, the MB, or CPU took a dump.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

Oh, I’m not falling for this one again. How can you post a message here if your PC isn’t working? AND DON’T TELL ME YOU’RE USING ANOTHER PC! One PC per warrior. That’s the rules! Oh….but you don’t follow the rules, do ya? Nooooooo! I can use as many PCs as I want to connect to the Internet. Hell, I have an entire PC army as my minions. At my beckoned call, they will compute metric to standard. Well, we’re hip to your world domination.... overthrow ideas.

Hope this helps!

 

[Twrecks]

Dead power supply?

 

[ReD_Fist]

unplug evrything accept the hard drive and vid card.

Reseat your ram chips.

cleanout dust and check the fans, a fan may be loading down the supply.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

Dead power supply?

well, yeah. that was going to be my second guess.

 

[Btljuice]

I'd be inclined to think either the MB, Ram or CPU died since there are no POST beeps. Even with a dead Video card/HD etc, the comp would still POST beep telling you there's an error.

 

[Cat Fuzz]

Hope this helps!

Nope, but your avatar does!!! Wow, she's HAWT

 

[QUALTHWAR]

yeah, and a mouth like a catcher's mit

 

[Balton]

Yes, reseat everything, if that don`t work, try to remove everything from the motherboard sept the power supply, CPU, the video card and the memory. It should boot to the post screen and then stop with no OS installed. If not, try to remove the memory and start it up again, you should get a beep code, if not, then it may be the power supply, the MB, or CPU took a dump.

I've cleaned the whole case out, even took the cpu fan apart to get all dust out( more like a colony of dustmice). Then I tried taking my gfx card out but it somehow gets stuck due to my case('ll never go for an el cheapo case again).

then I took my ram out and put it in a different ramplug.
I also cleaned out some more dust.

and then the damned thing worked again

 

[Rukee]

Sweet!! Congrats!! Your a computer repair man!!

 

[Balton]

Sweet!! Congrats!! Your a computer repair man!!

when do I get my badge?

 

[Rukee]

..as soon as I see the consolation fee hit my pay-pal account.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

that's good you didn't have to buy anything.

 

[Balton]

..as soon as I see the consolation fee hit my pay-pal account.

Suddenly sexual favours don't count anymore?

 

[Rukee]

Old hat!

 

[ReD_Fist]

And one thing, about dust in computers, a little bit wich won't look bad is more worse than one might think.
I had a slightly messy cpu heatsink, it was dirty but not bad enough to clean it.
Well I cleaned it anyway, and man it DEFINITLY lowered the temp.And being in electronics for all of my life that ammount of dust I cleaned out shouldn't have made it run very much colder.It wasn't caked on it just looked like kinda dusty and it still had good airspaces between the heatsink fins..
And i didn't wright down the temps but it was and still unbelievele.