- Mar 16, 2012
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Since a while, my youngest daughter has the bad habit of coming and pushing on the power button while the machine is running...
Now, a few weeks ago, I've been having weird screen flickerings, followed by a windows error "Nvidia graphic driver has stopped responding". I reinstalled the driver, to no avail. the error remained.
A reinstall of windows => Same problem.
I wanted to check if my GPU had the same kind of behaviour on another system so I took it out. That's when I noticed huge amounts of dust within my pc. So i took the vacuum cleaner and set it on the lowest settings. I vacuumed the insite from a distace, so i didn't touch the components by itself. I took out the GPU and RAM memory for this.
I put everything back in, booted my PC, only to be greeted by a black screen saying "no Input signal".
My first reflex was that my GPU had finally died on me, so I put an old GFX card in there => same symptoms.
So, knowing it was not the GPU, I removed my RAM memory and tried a boot without these: I didn't even hear any beeps. This might however be normal, since I suspect my system speaker to be set to "off".
To make sure it wasn't the CPU, I removed the cooler and checked if the CPU warms up => it does this normally, so I suspect it's not the CPU either.
I also already checked by draining the remaining power from the PSU, and I removed the CMOS battery for a few minutes => Same issue.
So right now, I fear I might have killed my mobo somehow. Do any of you have any other ideas or suggestions of what I could check?
Now, a few weeks ago, I've been having weird screen flickerings, followed by a windows error "Nvidia graphic driver has stopped responding". I reinstalled the driver, to no avail. the error remained.
A reinstall of windows => Same problem.
I wanted to check if my GPU had the same kind of behaviour on another system so I took it out. That's when I noticed huge amounts of dust within my pc. So i took the vacuum cleaner and set it on the lowest settings. I vacuumed the insite from a distace, so i didn't touch the components by itself. I took out the GPU and RAM memory for this.
I put everything back in, booted my PC, only to be greeted by a black screen saying "no Input signal".
My first reflex was that my GPU had finally died on me, so I put an old GFX card in there => same symptoms.
So, knowing it was not the GPU, I removed my RAM memory and tried a boot without these: I didn't even hear any beeps. This might however be normal, since I suspect my system speaker to be set to "off".
To make sure it wasn't the CPU, I removed the cooler and checked if the CPU warms up => it does this normally, so I suspect it's not the CPU either.
I also already checked by draining the remaining power from the PSU, and I removed the CMOS battery for a few minutes => Same issue.
So right now, I fear I might have killed my mobo somehow. Do any of you have any other ideas or suggestions of what I could check?
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