I'm a bit stumped by this one. My computer won't display anything at all when I turn it on. There seems to be no defects to the mo_bo, or anything connected to it. The hard drive powers up, all the fans spin, and the processor warms up as well. I don't think there is anything wrong with the ram as I've given it a visual inspection and there seems to be nothing defective about it, I've smelled it to make sure it hasn't burned out, and it hasn't. I really don't know what could possibly be the cause.
The computer won't display anything.
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dark_lord69
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The specs are:
2GB DDR3 RAM
500GB SATA II HDD
AMD A6 3500 Tri-Core APU
I have a video card but because the processor is an APU, I can also have onboard graphics.
I just got an email before I posted this reply, yes the monitor is set to the right input, and to add something else, I don't get any beep codes.
10tacle
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Well no beeps is no guarantee of not having failed hardware. Try booting with a single stick of memory and swap them out between boots if the first attempt still doesn't work. The general hardware trouble shooting for video trouble is as follows: memory, power supply, GPU, motherboard/CPU.
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I'm not familiar with older AMD builds, but with Intel chips and newer AMD builds if you have a dedicated video card installed on the motherboard, it by default disables the on-board chipset graphics. Just to be clear, you have tried both the on-board APU graphics as well as your dedicated graphics card and plugging the monitor into each accordingly?
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Well at this point it could be anything. FYI just because you see no physical defaults on the motherboard like blown capacitors does not mean that something didn't go bad. MOSFET chips for example are known to go bad over time and you'd never know one was bad without an electrical test.
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Can you tell me what make and model of PC speaker you have.
Does it resemble this?
https://www.amazon.ca/Baoblaze-Motherboard-Internal-Speaker-Buzzer/dp/B0798PXK3L/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522856590&sr=8-2&keywords=motherboard+speaker
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