need troubleshooting help

[Balton]

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.

yeah well, I guess that's one of the things that happened.
Now I'm back to my original problem. pc turns on but nothing happens.
When I'm lucky the pc boots up to windows but crashes quickly after. Thrice I turned the pc on and the monitor went on too but it stopped before going through my ram(y'know that loadup-screen-thingie) with the message "checking NVRAM).


so... my RAM could be broken... or something else... I'll try to replace my ram with some older ones that I should have somewhere... does anyone have a better idea?

 

[Balton]

ok, Im back on my pc running at antique 256 mb ram. I had to hit my reboot key twice to get my pc running so I'll just have to sit it out and see if it was my ram that's broken : /



to be continued...

 

[QUALTHWAR]

maybe power supply as twrecks suggested?

 

[Twrecks]

Buy a new hampster. They typically only live 1 - 2 years.

 

[Balton]

maybe power supply as twrecks suggested?

My ram must be ok.

What kind of symptoms does a dead power suplly unit give? I doubt its the psu since I replaced it last year for a decent one. The no bleeps sounds might be due to me never connecting the pcspeakers(dang!).

Im still believing that my graphics card took a dump especially since the gfx fan makes extreme noise shortly before my pc crashes(whenever it manages to boot windows anyhow). Another thing is that the screen freezes with each crash.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

Well, I’m certainly no expert, but from what I understand, a PS can do multiple things. I think it depends on how much power it’s putting out. “I THINK” it can go completely bad and you won’t see any LED lights or anything on inside your box. Or, they might have enough power to light up some LED lights, but not enough to boot you up.

Take that further and maybe they have enough to boot you sometimes, but soon heat up and lose power and fail. I had a PS go bad and it would light my LEDs, but it wouldn’t boot my system. Yours might have enough power to boot you up sometimes.

Mine went bad when I got a new case and they sent me a replacement PS, but I bought a good PS before the replacement arrived. I keep the replacement as a backup to use as a test PS.