Monitor, Keyboard & Mouse not turning on

[lk12billy]

When I turn on computer there is no activaty (blinking lights) on keyboard or mouse, but the monitor starts to fire-up and then says power save, and shuts down, all the lights on the tower seem to indicate it is functioning ok, but hard to tell with no visual, tried other monitoers, no help, had this problem a few months ago, went in and checked connections and wires and still did the same thing,unplugged computer and started looking at upgrade prices, 3 weeks later I plugged it back in for another try and everything came on as normal and worked great for 3 months, until I bought a new system, I gave the old one to a friend's little 10 year old Daughter, it was working just before I unplugged everything to take it to the friend's home but when I hooked everything up there and turned it on, now it's doing the same thing. what -up?

[mjc]

Sounds like a power supply problem...make/model of computer with problem.

[lk12billy]

Processor type: x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2
Processor Vendor: Authentic AMD
System BIOS version: AMIINT-1000
System BIOS date:03/08/02
Physical Memory: 256 MB

[mjc]

Is it an HP, Compaq, Dell, etc?

What is the model number?

[lk12billy]

It says AMD but I think it is something someone slapped together, all the prior msg information is from the Computer it self (my Computer)

[lk12billy]

Thanks friend , but I got it working, pulled all the cards, blew out their slots, replaced them and it worked, go figure.

[Paul Komski]

go figure
Just one slightly bad, loose, dirty connection; that's all it takes. Just one small hardware fault (ANY piece of hardware) can prevent a computer from starting-up at all.