- Aug 12, 2014
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Sorry if this is in the wrong forum category, but I'm new to this site.
Anyway, I won this old computer in a drawing, it's a 2002 Dell DHM. For about the first week, it seemed to work alright. I was going to replace the Windows XP with Linux, all was going well.
One day, I come home from work to a BSOD. Ugh. Now, I'm a computer novice, honestly, and turned the thing off, pushing the button. I let it sit for awhile, then tried to turn it back on.
Nothing.
The lights all come on (power button, USB lights), the fan is whirring, but nothing ever comes onto the screen. I can't access BIOS, I can't get anything. I tested my monitor with another computer, just in case, and it's not a monitor problem. And all the connections look good.
A friend told me to maybe replace the CMOS battery, that it was a long shot, but cheap, and that did nothing.
It also won't even boot from USB like I had previously been doing to try out Linux.
Any ideas?
Anyway, I won this old computer in a drawing, it's a 2002 Dell DHM. For about the first week, it seemed to work alright. I was going to replace the Windows XP with Linux, all was going well.
One day, I come home from work to a BSOD. Ugh. Now, I'm a computer novice, honestly, and turned the thing off, pushing the button. I let it sit for awhile, then tried to turn it back on.
Nothing.
The lights all come on (power button, USB lights), the fan is whirring, but nothing ever comes onto the screen. I can't access BIOS, I can't get anything. I tested my monitor with another computer, just in case, and it's not a monitor problem. And all the connections look good.
A friend told me to maybe replace the CMOS battery, that it was a long shot, but cheap, and that did nothing.
It also won't even boot from USB like I had previously been doing to try out Linux.
Any ideas?
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