- Nov 18, 2012
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Hi everyone,
My dad has had a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P desktop PC for about 8 or 9 years; and today it's suddenly stopped working. It's the Intel Celeron D model @ 2.66Ghz.
When we turn it on, it makes the POST beep and begins to boot; but before it does it turns off completely. We tried using a Windows XP recovery disc to boot from and again it turns off. We opened it up and checked everything - the hard drive and optical drive are both IDE drives and the CPU and RAM are seated properly. I am slightly concerned as the cpu cooler isn't on top of the cpu; it's placed near the top of the motherboard; whereas the cpu is near to the centre of the motherboard - not even on top of eachother - but this hasn't been altered sinse we bought it. It has been running pretty slowly the last 2-3 years and so today I defragged it and uninstalled some old software (Yahoo messenger and iTunes).
I'm really unsure about what has happened here - the heatsink was incredibly hot earlier though; which I though may be due to the weather i.e 32 degrees celcius here in the UK at the moment.
It's quite important that we do get it to work again as it is the source PC of the household, which we rely on - we can't really afford a new PC.
Please help me,
Thank You,
James
My dad has had a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo P desktop PC for about 8 or 9 years; and today it's suddenly stopped working. It's the Intel Celeron D model @ 2.66Ghz.
When we turn it on, it makes the POST beep and begins to boot; but before it does it turns off completely. We tried using a Windows XP recovery disc to boot from and again it turns off. We opened it up and checked everything - the hard drive and optical drive are both IDE drives and the CPU and RAM are seated properly. I am slightly concerned as the cpu cooler isn't on top of the cpu; it's placed near the top of the motherboard; whereas the cpu is near to the centre of the motherboard - not even on top of eachother - but this hasn't been altered sinse we bought it. It has been running pretty slowly the last 2-3 years and so today I defragged it and uninstalled some old software (Yahoo messenger and iTunes).
I'm really unsure about what has happened here - the heatsink was incredibly hot earlier though; which I though may be due to the weather i.e 32 degrees celcius here in the UK at the moment.
It's quite important that we do get it to work again as it is the source PC of the household, which we rely on - we can't really afford a new PC.
Please help me,
Thank You,
James
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