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Newly finished comp won't start
Name: Joe35 Date: October 20, 2004 at 00:58:56 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: p4 3.0 1GB ram
Comment:
I just finished this computer which will be my second comp made. I started it up and all seemed well i started formatting hard drive and it shut itself off. I then proceeded to restart and it wouldnt so i switched the back power switch off for 5 mins did it again and it started up i went to bios checked everything saved changes and it went off again. Now after checking all connections and polarities. Making sure no pins are broken or anything. Right now my monitor won't start either it says no signal. The video card was good prior to this comp because i used it on my other computer. What do u think? I think the hard drive may have some problems. I checked power to and the power supply is 550 W max Thank you
Name: Richard59 Date: October 20, 2004 at 02:10:48 Pacific
Reply:
Possible overheating issue. Pentium cpu has thermal cutoff to prevent it burning out.
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Response Number 2
Name: najitech Date: October 20, 2004 at 05:25:13 Pacific
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Does your motherboard have onboard video? If so, you will want to make sure to disable it on your BIOS before connecting up to your graphics card. Also, if you have both onboard video and a separate graphics card, make sure you have the monitor cable connected to the correct video port.
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Response Number 3
Name: tom529 Date: October 20, 2004 at 12:32:33 Pacific
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symtoms are most likely caused by overheating processor or bad hard drive.
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Response Number 4
Name: Joe35 Date: October 20, 2004 at 15:35:44 Pacific
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well Got a new hard drive and now it stays on now the monitor doesnt get signal. Tried resetting motherboard by removing batterie and clearing cmos, also tried using dif video cards a pci and agp. What should i do now?
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