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My Computer won't work
Name: Adam Siggers Date: July 4, 2003 at 03:03:04 Pacific OS: Xp CPU/Ram: 1.3 Ghz 256 Ram
Comment:
When I turn my computer on it doesn't do anything but the CPU fan goes the tree little lights come on the keyboard and there is no activity on the moniter or hard drive I have stripped the computer right down to video ram anc cpu and still nothing. The computer was running fine this morning, I have tried different ram and video cards I hope my cpu hasent died, I have also tried reseting the cmos and replacing the battery
Name: Michael Date: July 4, 2003 at 03:34:28 Pacific
Reply:
I would think it was the monitor but you say there is no hard drive activity. Go get memtest, at www.memtest86.com, make a bootable floppy of that (or cd). Its an app that runs a good test to see if ram is good or not. That should narrow it down more, and if it fails the test (errors start popping up) you know its the ram.
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Response Number 2
Name: Free Weasel Date: July 4, 2003 at 14:53:11 Pacific
Reply:
Try another power supply.
I had the no monitor problem with a friend but his harddrive still worked. In that case it was a broken cable on the mainboard power connector!
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