Hi,
I can't work out what the problem is after doing different tests which appear to produce different results.
It's an old Pc, which I am having to use because my laptop broke!:
asus m2n4-sli motherboard
4gb RAM (recently upgraded from 2)
amd x2 athlon 5600+ (2.3GHz)
nvidia geforce 8600GTS
About a month ago, my power supply (550W) broke so I replaced it very recently with an ACE 600W one (I do know that these are not the best power supplies, but this is an old computer and i only want it to last a year or two more at best so didn't want to fork out).
Anyway, the power supply came and i replaced the old one. The computer turned on which is more than it was doing before, so good start. The screen however wasn't displaying anything. I had had a problem like this a few months back which I solved (weirdly) by unplugging the HDD and replugging it back in. So I tried this... i unplugged it, switched the computer on and the display worked fine. I then turned it off, replugged in the HDD and booted again... again it worked fine. It booted windows and just as it was displaying the windows 7 loading thing, it crashed (blue screen of death). At this point I thought I must have a hard drive problem.
I unplugged it again and booted... but with no result. I now cannot seem to get the screen to display at all, with or without the HDD plugged in.
I tried taking out the CMOS battery from the motherboard to see if there was some kind of problem with the BIOS config but this didn't work.
I couldn't work out why it was displaying those few times and now not so I also tried taking out the GPU and dusting it off (thinking the problem might be that the GPU has been damaged), and I tried plugging it into the other slot in the motherboard, neither of which worked. I am thinking that maybe the PSU took out the graphics card somehow. Unfortunately, I don't have a spare computer to test it on
.
(I have checked that the monitor and cable works, of course!)
I am stuck for ideas to try, if anyone has any it would be great!
Thanks,
Dan.
I can't work out what the problem is after doing different tests which appear to produce different results.
It's an old Pc, which I am having to use because my laptop broke!:
asus m2n4-sli motherboard
4gb RAM (recently upgraded from 2)
amd x2 athlon 5600+ (2.3GHz)
nvidia geforce 8600GTS
About a month ago, my power supply (550W) broke so I replaced it very recently with an ACE 600W one (I do know that these are not the best power supplies, but this is an old computer and i only want it to last a year or two more at best so didn't want to fork out).
Anyway, the power supply came and i replaced the old one. The computer turned on which is more than it was doing before, so good start. The screen however wasn't displaying anything. I had had a problem like this a few months back which I solved (weirdly) by unplugging the HDD and replugging it back in. So I tried this... i unplugged it, switched the computer on and the display worked fine. I then turned it off, replugged in the HDD and booted again... again it worked fine. It booted windows and just as it was displaying the windows 7 loading thing, it crashed (blue screen of death). At this point I thought I must have a hard drive problem.
I unplugged it again and booted... but with no result. I now cannot seem to get the screen to display at all, with or without the HDD plugged in.
I tried taking out the CMOS battery from the motherboard to see if there was some kind of problem with the BIOS config but this didn't work.
I couldn't work out why it was displaying those few times and now not so I also tried taking out the GPU and dusting it off (thinking the problem might be that the GPU has been damaged), and I tried plugging it into the other slot in the motherboard, neither of which worked. I am thinking that maybe the PSU took out the graphics card somehow. Unfortunately, I don't have a spare computer to test it on
.(I have checked that the monitor and cable works, of course!)
I am stuck for ideas to try, if anyone has any it would be great!
Thanks,
Dan.
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