zrhodus
03-08-2006, 02:57 AM
PC Specs
AMD xp 2600+
1.5gb pc 2100 ddr
80gb hdd
Geforce fx 5200
agp 4x
As you can tell its no new pc, in fact its probably now 3 years old and now suddenly its not working. I am stumped with this as of late.
I will start by saying I have transported the pc between my dorm room on campus and my home several times since the beginning of the school year. I fear I may have somehow shocked the pc with static in my car for the following reasons:
When I returned to the dorm with my pc it powered on as soon as the power cable was hooked into power supply. It has never done this before, but I assumed I had just accidently pressed a button. I then noticed that the pc was not loading at all..there was no hard drive noise or blinking of the hard drive led. The cd and media reader lights burned steady however.
Fearing the black screen of death I held down the power button for 5 secs or so manually turning off the pc. It then came back on on its own, making the only way to turn the power off with any finality to remove the power cord from the back.
I haven't made any significant changes to the system in the last 3 months or so but I still started trying to figure out the problem by eliminated drives and accessories.
At the point I'm at now I've got the Mobo on a piece of cardboard, hooked into the power supply, with 512 mb of ram, the cpu and the heatsink. The onboard video seemed easier to use for troubleshooting purposes. The pc still will not boot, and does not beep, or give the monitor a signal, or any signs of posting for that matter. I have tried moving the CMOS jumpers as well as taking the CMOS battery out for 10 minutes or so, but this did not help the situation. The computer remains idle on boot attempts.
The problem is not the memory because the memory worked fine in my roommates pc, which uses faster ddr, however the memory did step down and run fine on his pc.
I have not seriously considered the power supply because it does seem to be supplying power to the board and the board will still..temporarily shut off when the two power tips are grounded wouth a screwdriver.
So after doing this I've come to the conclusion that either my CPU or mobo is bad. I have not considered the CMOS battery because I would assume I would get some sort of life out of the machine even if it was dead (POST). I do not know or have a way of determining from here if its the cpu or the motherboard so I thought I would ask some more skilled computer people what they thought. Thanks in advance for any help :)
AMD xp 2600+
1.5gb pc 2100 ddr
80gb hdd
Geforce fx 5200
agp 4x
As you can tell its no new pc, in fact its probably now 3 years old and now suddenly its not working. I am stumped with this as of late.
I will start by saying I have transported the pc between my dorm room on campus and my home several times since the beginning of the school year. I fear I may have somehow shocked the pc with static in my car for the following reasons:
When I returned to the dorm with my pc it powered on as soon as the power cable was hooked into power supply. It has never done this before, but I assumed I had just accidently pressed a button. I then noticed that the pc was not loading at all..there was no hard drive noise or blinking of the hard drive led. The cd and media reader lights burned steady however.
Fearing the black screen of death I held down the power button for 5 secs or so manually turning off the pc. It then came back on on its own, making the only way to turn the power off with any finality to remove the power cord from the back.
I haven't made any significant changes to the system in the last 3 months or so but I still started trying to figure out the problem by eliminated drives and accessories.
At the point I'm at now I've got the Mobo on a piece of cardboard, hooked into the power supply, with 512 mb of ram, the cpu and the heatsink. The onboard video seemed easier to use for troubleshooting purposes. The pc still will not boot, and does not beep, or give the monitor a signal, or any signs of posting for that matter. I have tried moving the CMOS jumpers as well as taking the CMOS battery out for 10 minutes or so, but this did not help the situation. The computer remains idle on boot attempts.
The problem is not the memory because the memory worked fine in my roommates pc, which uses faster ddr, however the memory did step down and run fine on his pc.
I have not seriously considered the power supply because it does seem to be supplying power to the board and the board will still..temporarily shut off when the two power tips are grounded wouth a screwdriver.
So after doing this I've come to the conclusion that either my CPU or mobo is bad. I have not considered the CMOS battery because I would assume I would get some sort of life out of the machine even if it was dead (POST). I do not know or have a way of determining from here if its the cpu or the motherboard so I thought I would ask some more skilled computer people what they thought. Thanks in advance for any help :)