Computer no longer boots - seems bad!

slaitaar · Apr 18, 2007, 07:07 PM

Hey everyone, need some advice.

Was happily playing world of warcraft when suddenly the PC turns off and when i go to turn it back on I get nothing but the sounds of fans turning on. Initially i thought it was my graphics card, since I've recently been experiencing it restarting itself (i.e. monitor go blank and back on), but it wasnt this.

I disconnected the hard drive, the floppy, the dvd, the ram, the pci-express graphics so its running on integrated... nothing. I swapped the two 512mb RAM chips over, no change.

What am I looking at here, and is there any way to know what part exactly has gone?

ChaosMinionX · Apr 18, 2007, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by slaitaar

Hey everyone, need some advice.

Was happily playing world of warcraft when suddenly the PC turns off and when i go to turn it back on I get nothing but the sounds of fans turning on. Initially i thought it was my graphics card, since I've recently been experiencing it restarting itself (i.e. monitor go blank and back on), but it wasnt this.

I disconnected the hard drive, the floppy, the dvd, the ram, the pci-express graphics so its running on integrated... nothing. I swapped the two 512mb RAM chips over, no change.

What am I looking at here, and is there any way to know what part exactly has gone?

Some computer specs and voltages n whatnot would be nice, like voltages set in bios and what you had running. Also if you smelled anything burn when this happened.

slaitaar · Apr 18, 2007, 07:27 PM

No idea about voltages in bios, matey, they were never touched.

Its an Asus mobo with an AMD 3500 CPU, the graphics is 512mb x850 Radeon, 2x512mb crutial RAM, 350W PSU...

No smell when it happened, just changed up the PSU and no change.

forgot to say what i had running, it was just windwos vista and world of warcraft at the time.

slaitaar · Apr 18, 2007, 07:50 PM

also just checked the CPU, couldnt see any marks on it at all.

Apr 18, 2007, 07:07 PM	#1
slaitaar DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Computer no longer boots - seems bad! Hey everyone, need some advice. Was happily playing world of warcraft when suddenly the PC turns off and when i go to turn it back on I get nothing but the sounds of fans turning on. Initially i thought it was my graphics card, since I've recently been experiencing it restarting itself (i.e. monitor go blank and back on), but it wasnt this. I disconnected the hard drive, the floppy, the dvd, the ram, the pci-express graphics so its running on integrated... nothing. I swapped the two 512mb RAM chips over, no change. What am I looking at here, and is there any way to know what part exactly has gone?

Apr 18, 2007, 07:27 PM	Thread Starter #3
slaitaar DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	No idea about voltages in bios, matey, they were never touched. Its an Asus mobo with an AMD 3500 CPU, the graphics is 512mb x850 Radeon, 2x512mb crutial RAM, 350W PSU... No smell when it happened, just changed up the PSU and no change. forgot to say what i had running, it was just windwos vista and world of warcraft at the time. Last edited by slaitaar; Apr 18, 2007 at 07:39 PM.

Apr 18, 2007, 07:50 PM	Thread Starter #4
slaitaar DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	also just checked the CPU, couldnt see any marks on it at all.