Ok, totally off topic, but that is the point of this forum!
When I power on my computer everything sounds fine, lights come on, fan spins etc, but nothing is happening on the monitor.
I changed monitors. Still nothing. Monitor works with other PC.
I have the computer on my LAN, so I waited for it to boot into Windows so I could try pinging it to see if it is up. It's not. So, it's not booting into Windows.
Again, there is nothing happening on the screen, and there are no beeps or anything to suggest a hardware failure - I guess that it isn't even getting to the BIOS.
I took hard drive out of faulty PC and put into another PC, that works fine, and I was able to copy all the files onto another PC.
What do I do now? What can I try to fix it? Nothing unusual has happened to it, this happened literally overnight... Could it be the PSU? Would that make sense if there obviously is power?
There are no scorch marks or anything on the motherboard, and all cables seem to be correctly plugged in.
Please Help!
Rich
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the capacitors for leakages ("Bad Caps"). I had a massive problem with those recently.
Nothing unusual has happened to it, this happened literally overnight
The same thing happened to me with bad caps.
Other than that, the BIOS might be screwed.
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A few months ago I try added more ram to my computer. When I turnded it on, the same thing happened, I removed the ram and it was back to normal. Did you upgrade your computer recently?
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just doesn't recognise that some extra RAM is plugged in.
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Sounds like bad video card to me. Happen to have another handy?
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That happend to me to. I took apart the comp and cleand off the dust an it worked fine.
check your cpu and mother board, that happened to me a while ago and my motherboard and cpu were fried (with no visual signs)
hope this helps
I swapped over the PSU with one from a working machine to no avail.
Have swapped everything except mobo and processor...
Oh well - I will get a free laptop next year for Teacher Training, my fiancee will get a free Laptop for being a Teacher, then I will get one the year after for starting teaching, so in 2 years we will have 3 laptops... there's not much point buying a new mobo etc!
Thanks for your help!