attilathehun1
Sat Jun 14 05:33:03 PDT 2008
I"ve run through the hole guantlet. I reseated the RAM sticks, checked the
power supply, changed the video card, tried to run it off the onboard video,
changed the hard drive and tried a brand new drive and an older used drive,
took the CPU and heatsink out and oh, that could be it. I think it worked
before I applied the arctic silver. I did a dry run after I took out the CPU
chip and cleaned it off. I immediately turned it off because I didn't install
the heatsink and fan assembly. So, it wasn't the arctic silver it was the
whole device. When I installed the heatsink and fan to the CPU, then it
stopped working. OH, I'm not sure. It fires up, but nothing on the monitor.
I've changed the video card to a new card that's sitting in the PC right now,
and I changed the hard drive to a brand new drive and nothing on the monitor.
Maybe I just have a bad motherboard. I changed the onboard battery and before
I did that the PC wouldn't even fire up. But as soon as I changed the 3 volt
2032 mobo battery the PC started firing up, but no monitor. I tried to move
the jumper over 1 prong, it's a 3 prong mobo jumper. When I tried to put it
into default or move the jumper over from 1 to 2 to 2 to 3 or 2 to 3 to 1 to
2, nothing happened, it wouldn't even fire up, absolutely nothing and then I
had to changed it back to the original position it fired up again but no
monitor.
I've run through the whole kitchen sink with this PC. Anything that can be
checked was checked. If I could go into BIOS I would but I can't go into BIOS
if I can see anything on the monitor. Also speaking about monitors, yes, I
changed the monitor too.
Thanks, attilathehun1
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attilathehun1
"steven@nospam.org" wrote:
> You can also try removing all of the cards (except the video card)
> and see if it works.
>
>
> Steve
>
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:49:28 -0700, "Rich Barry" <rbarry@socal.rr.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Did you get into the Bios and redo all your settings? You could
> >probably choose Default Settings or Optimal Settings for
> > now. Reseat or replace the Video Card with the older one. Make sure it's
> >seated properly. Also, the cpu and heatsink assy.
> >
> >"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:27C1B019-7C53-47AA-A44E-802A9BD19FA9@microsoft.com...
> >> I changed my motherboard battery and it turned out it was dead, because
> >> the
> >> PC wouldn't fire up at all, just dead. When I went through everything you
> >> could think of, reseating the RAM, checking the power supply, changing the
> >> video card, changing the hard drive, changing the monitor and finally
> >> taking
> >> the heatsink and fan assembly off , cleaning it and reapplying the arctic
> >> silver, it turned out to be the motherboard battery. I forgot completely
> >> about that. But, when I finally replaced it and then fired it up, the
> >> monitor
> >> stayed yellow in the LED. I changed the jumper on the motherboard over to
> >> default, or to the other prong, whatever you want to call it, it has 3
> >> prongs
> >> and I changed it over from 1 to 2 or from 2 to 3 whatever. When I did that
> >> the PC didn't even fire up. Nothing! When I changed it back to the
> >> original
> >> position it fired up, but the same problem of the monitor not working. Now
> >> there was progress because nothing was happening when you pushed the power
> >> button. Now you get the fans moving and the hard drive spinning or getting
> >> warm. Maybe it's the hard drive? I did check the hard drive and replaced
> >> it
> >> with another one. I'm going to try a new hard drive that hasn't been used
> >> before and give that a shot.
> >> One thing, if you change the motherboard battery and then you have
> >> problems
> >> you should be able to adjust the jumper on the motherboard to default and
> >> then switch it back. Even the tech at Dell said to do that and it would be
> >> ok. I guess not.
> >> Well, the motherboard is a M7VIG 400 that supports AMD processors and the
> >> chip is an AMD Sempron 2200. I think it's the motherboard that's screwy.
> >> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >> Thanks, attilathehun1
> >> --
> >> attilathehun1
> >
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