PC will not boot

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Grim

A frend who bit of a monkey and has a pc which When it turn on it does
nothing not even beep. I am told it LCDs on the motherboard instead
of beeps and thay have a order but all they now is just all turn on
at ones. Can eney one help the motherboard is a LANPARTY NFII ULTRA
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I'm wondering if it's possible that your system experienced an
electrical spike/surge. If that is indeed the case troubleshooting
will be difficult. Any number of things could have taken a lethal
hit.

I doubt that it's the memory..... or the video card. If either of
those had failed you would have gotten appropriate beeps when booting.

Wait a second.... how did you replace the video card if you claim that
the system will not reboot? You didn't replace the video card with
the machine still running, did you? I suspect you didn't but I
thought I'd ask. If you shut the machine down and replaced the video
card (hopefully you unplugged the system and took appropriate
anti-static precautions) and the new card "did the same thing" then
your system must have rebooted in order to see the monitor.

I suggest that you supply a complete "timeline" of events step by
step.

Is your system using a UPS? ( Uninterrupted Power Supply ) If not
are you using a surge protector? I'm not a big fan of surge
protectors. I always recommend hooking up a UPS vs a surge protector.

For starters I would take take all the cards out except the video card
and of course the ram.

My last suggestion would be to look at the power supply. It may be
going south on you. Does the cpu fan come on when you turn the system
on? What do you see and/or hear when you try to boot up?

Get back to us and let us and keep us informed of your progress.

Good luck!


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Pat De Rosalia ([email protected])
Subject: PC will not boot

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Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Date: 2000/03/19

Any help with the following problem would be greatly appreciated:

My PC was running yesterday when I left the room for a few minutes.
When I
returned the screen was flickering wildly while the screen saver was
still
running. The computer would not respond to any input (keyboard,
mouse) and
to shut it down I had to pull the power plug. When the machine is
powered
on now there is no initial beep and the machine does not boot. With
the
problem with the monitor and the machine not beeping I suspected the
video
card (a 3d Blaster Banshee). I took out the Banshee and replaced it
with an
STB Velocity and the problems persist. Could this be memory? CPU?
Is
there anything else I can check?
 
You need to provide more information. Has this just recently started? Was he
trying to overclock the processor?

regards

Pete
 
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