i turn on my computer and it's dead.

[rempi]

when i turn on my computer normally everthings works fine. But yesterday i turned on my computer and it does not work.

the power LED on my computer lights up as normal and the power light on my monitor lights up but flashes and i see no picture. i can not hear my drives start to boots up but upon open my computer the drives are getting power as an internal LED on my hard drive light up. Also the heat sink fan does not seam to work.

i was just wondering if anybody had any sugestion are had seen this type of fault before.

system info.
case / powersupply is quite old (5 years)and generic.
100 mhz motherboard (2 years old)and generic.
AMD 500 mHz cpu (2 years old) with heavy duty heatsink and fan.
128 (100 mhz ram) single bank (2 years old)
sound blaster value sound card 512 bit(2 years old)
AGP vodoo3/3000 graphics card 16 meg (2 years old)
1x 1.28 Gbit Mator hard drive running windows Me.(Primary)(5 years old)
1x 20 Gb Mator hard drive used for data storage(primary slave)(2 years old)
1x 44speed cd drive(secondary)(2 years old)
1x 4speed cd drive (secondary slave)(5 years old)

[ranchdog]

Hi rempi and Welcome....

Couple different ways to consider this one. But the Heatsink Fan not working is the key.

Some Mboards have a safety factor that if the HSF doesn't spin the system will not boot up. Some Mboards just won't boot up if the fan header (current supply source) fails.

And the CPU may be damaged because of heat problems caused by the HSF not working. The K6-2 CPU usually doesn't fry extremely quick.

Try unplugging the HSF from the Mboard and finding a different source of power for it. If the fan still doesn't spin try a replacement.

At that point if the PC doesn't boot up you will have to try a different CPU.

Luck.

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