HELLO
I recently bought a cheap pc from a friend and thought i would be able to get it going with the right bits that it needed internally (harddrive memory etc)
The problem is it tries to boot up and all it seems to do is the cpu fan is spinning at ten to the dozen the cd dvd drive light is on all the time & it has a blank screen (no picture what so ever).
I have tried literally everything to try and get this thing going and it is driving me mad.
Does anyone have any ideas what it could be.
I have tried another graphics card / different memory / new power supply / removing the cmos battery and many others but to no joy.
Any ideas would be a bonus cheers
Selwyn
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
bobbyraw 16 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
is the Video connection on board or a PCI card. is this a VGA or DVI connection.
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
HELLO
The motherboard dosen't have a built in vga socket , it has an agp graphics card from my other pc in it at the moment.
bobbyraw 16 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
if you are not geting anything on the screen then some thing is wrong with the video card of the mo board is dead.
Remove all connected items including the video card, then connect the video card ONLY, then try to boot, see what happen
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
HELLO
I have literally unplugged everything from the motherboard apart from the hard drive and the graphics card and i still get nothing.
As you say i think it is either a dead motherboard or maybe a faulty cpu.
A friend of mine said to a pci card in one of the pci slots but i dont have a pci card at the moment.
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
I will see if i can take the cmos battery out for like half an hour or something as i only took it out for about a minute before.
Also i am going to see on the compaq website if i can reset the motherboard jumpers if there is any on the motherboard.
caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions Team Colleague
you are using a AGP card from other computer are you sure its comparable with the compaq board .right speed and voltage .
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
it is the bog standard graphics card that came with my compaq pc & i t is being fitted into the problem compaq pc.
I don't know about speed and voltage , i would say they would be about te same if not less on the replacement graphics card.
Thank u ppl
willcomp 30 Posting Whiz in Training
Disconnect all drives -- both signal and power cables. Only way to rule out a faulty drive hard or optical or floppy.
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
HELLO MATE
I have tried this and still nothing.
It is either the cpu or motherboard that it shot as the rest of the parts are from other working pcs
willcomp 30 Posting Whiz in Training
Based on symptoms you described, I suspect the motherboard.
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
its an old 754 mobo so it can go on the scrapheap i think for what it will cost to get it going with a decent cpu aswell.
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
i only paid £10 for the pc im on now
Iqiu 0 Newbie Poster
Hi,
can you hear Windows welcome sound upon booting?
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
no it powers up and no picture at all
Iqiu 0 Newbie Poster
No picture, but what about Welcome sound upon booting?
Selwyn 0 Junior Poster in Training
just the whistling noises of the fan on the cpu thats all i can hear
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