penguins21
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I bought a computer from a friend who has conveiniently slipped off to the beach... but he'll be hearing from me when he returns:
The machine is an Athlon 1.1 GHz, SDRAM, NVidia GeForce 2. Think it started its life as a Compaq... anyway, the thing won't boot at all... no beeps, no video. i've tried just about everything with no avail:
took out RAM - was bad, replaced with new
reseated CPU
reset CMOS
changed video card
changed monitors
removed all other peripherals
While I was troubleshooting something odd happened. Before it would power on, fans and such, just without video and beeps. Now when I turned it on there would be only a momentary spurt of power before it died. I finally decided to dig up another power supply. I tried it, and got the same "blip" before it refused to proceed. Tried the original power supply on a new motherboard and without pushing the power button it made the mobo fan spin, but power button did nothing. Decided it was not wise to leave the power supply on this machine any more.
So i'm puzzled. Is it the motherboard? CPU? power supply? all of them?
Originally a wire from the power supply (1/2 an AT power connector) was hooked to a fitting port (1/2 [single] AT power port) on the motherboard. Never seen this...
Any insight would be much appreciated! Sorry for rambling so much!
The machine is an Athlon 1.1 GHz, SDRAM, NVidia GeForce 2. Think it started its life as a Compaq... anyway, the thing won't boot at all... no beeps, no video. i've tried just about everything with no avail:
took out RAM - was bad, replaced with new
reseated CPU
reset CMOS
changed video card
changed monitors
removed all other peripherals
While I was troubleshooting something odd happened. Before it would power on, fans and such, just without video and beeps. Now when I turned it on there would be only a momentary spurt of power before it died. I finally decided to dig up another power supply. I tried it, and got the same "blip" before it refused to proceed. Tried the original power supply on a new motherboard and without pushing the power button it made the mobo fan spin, but power button did nothing. Decided it was not wise to leave the power supply on this machine any more.
So i'm puzzled. Is it the motherboard? CPU? power supply? all of them?
Originally a wire from the power supply (1/2 an AT power connector) was hooked to a fitting port (1/2 [single] AT power port) on the motherboard. Never seen this...
Any insight would be much appreciated! Sorry for rambling so much!