Re: Computer jeenyus memoquery

James Schrumpf killed six kittens after typing this:

Quiet, Daniel Edwards <edwardsdp@xxxxxxxxx> -- I'm transmitting rage.

James Schrumpf <jaspammenotschrumpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns9799C2F9FDA1Djaschrumpfadelphiane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Quiet, Daniel Edwards <edwardsdp@xxxxxxxxx> -- I'm transmitting
rage.
James Schrumpf <jaspammenotschrumpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns9799BFDEA7128jaschrumpfadelphiane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
I've built quite a few computers over the last 12 years, so I have
quite a bit of experience with their problems. I'm really just
looking for confirmation of my worst fear.
When the green light is on on the mobo, and when you turn the
system on the power light on the front comes up, but yet there is
absolutely no response from the BIOS, that's either a fried BIOS
chip something else really badly wrong on the mobo, right?
When you didn't have the CPU plugged in correctly, did you really
get know BIOS action at all, or did you just get an instant error
beep? 'Cause I'm getting no beeps or output from the BIOS at all.

The little light came on on the MB. Nothing else happened. (Well,
maybe the CPU fan turned on; I don't remember.)

Once I managed to pull the heat sink/fan thing off the CPU and
successfully installed it, all was well (and still is, when Norton
isn't acting up).

I did kill a video card at one point. Whenever I had a significant
amount of black on the screen (in graphic mode), the whole machine
locked up. But I don't think that would prevent you from even
getting to the BIOS. Do you have another video card you could try?


No. We have also noticed that now when we turn the machine off with
the power switch on the front, it immediately restarts again. The
power light comes on, the drive LED stays lit, and nothing else
happens. We hold in the power button for four seconds, it turnes off,
then instantly restarts again. Ad infinatum.

I'm really thinking PS or mobo now.


See my top level reply.



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Chris Boyd
RSFC's 8 of Clubs

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