Sup guys, Im hoping someone can help me fix my spare computer, like the title says the comp runs but it wont do anything else, It was working fine untill i went out and came home a few hours later to find it in stanby/sleep mode, normally i just whiggle the mouse around to wake it up but this had no effect and i could not get it to turn on, so i held the power button in for a few secs to turn it off (no reset button button??), And yeah now it wont even post (no beep/s), also the monitor stays in stanby (orange light insted of green), I have not done any hardware checks yet, im just waiting to see if anyone else has had the same problem or if anyone has solved it, Cheers Mako187.
I just pulled the battery out and cleared the cmos but it still does'nt boot and i noticed the keyboard lights dont come on but the mouse lights up (red optical), i also tested the monitor on my other comp and it works fine so its not the monitor, Any Ideas??
I read another thread about the same kind of problem im having and his was solved by pulling the ram out and installing one at a time (he had a bad stick), i just did that but still no go, i even pulled all the ram out and it still did not beep/boot, also the comp turns on as soon as i put the power cable into the psu (without pressing the on button), Any other ideas??? its starting to give me the edited by ddp.. Cheers Mako187
Do you have another power supply to try? I have heard of the sleep mode fail, somehow killing the PSU, and that monitor light, being orange, was a symptom of the roached PSU. You could also try another video card?
try another psu as most likely thaty is causing the problem. also disconnect all cables to drives & remove all cards to see what happens.
You're on the right track. Unplug everything that's powered except your boot drive and any card you don't need. Take out all but one stick of memory and try it. Move the stick around and try again. Try another stick. Try another psu if you have one. All this fails...it's dead Jim.
Totally agree. If you pulled the memory and no beeps, PSU would be my next recommendation. If it fails with another PSU, it's the mobo or both mobo/PSU that went. This was a notorious problem with 3-5 year old eMachines and Dell computers where both PSU and mobo would die and needed replaced.
