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Was on my other computer up until about 15 minutes ago, running nothing but MSN - computer freezes completely, I hit the reset button and it doesn't get past the POST screen. Do it again and the screen = black.
Now when I switch it on all I get is a blank screen and the monitor power light flickers as if it's on standby. I tried resetting the BIOS with the jumper to no avail.
One thing I noticed - the green power light on the computer doesn't go on when I press the power button, yet the fans start spinning, CD-ROM lights up, Hard-Drive light comes on and it spins as usual. Weird.
Is it completely screwed?
Now when I switch it on all I get is a blank screen and the monitor power light flickers as if it's on standby. I tried resetting the BIOS with the jumper to no avail.
One thing I noticed - the green power light on the computer doesn't go on when I press the power button, yet the fans start spinning, CD-ROM lights up, Hard-Drive light comes on and it spins as usual. Weird.
Is it completely screwed?
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Already tried that.
I might get a new battery and see if it does anything.
I might get a new battery and see if it does anything.
Take the CMOS battery out - And put it back in.
See if it makes any difference.
See if it makes any difference.
It was the first thing I did when it wouldn't POST.
Out of interest - You opened the case and had a look recently?
Check the molex connects are plugged in properly. Actually check all the cables.
Check the molex connects are plugged in properly. Actually check all the cables.
Hmmmm.
Yesterday I decided to give it another go...and it switched on. First time. It forced me to go into CMOS setup, so I just loaded 'optimized defaults' and hit save & exit. Now, it got about halfway into booting into Windows but crashed at the XP Pro screen thingy, the bit where the 3 little bars go round a few times. Yeah.
...then it froze, and when I tried to restart it, it was doing the blank screen thing again.
Now, like I said before, when it does the blank screen the green power light on the case doesn't come on, but when it actually worked the green light did come on, so it obviously bears some significance to what the problem is.
The motherboard quite obviously still works now(ish), so any idea what the problem could be?
Yesterday I decided to give it another go...and it switched on. First time. It forced me to go into CMOS setup, so I just loaded 'optimized defaults' and hit save & exit. Now, it got about halfway into booting into Windows but crashed at the XP Pro screen thingy, the bit where the 3 little bars go round a few times. Yeah.
...then it froze, and when I tried to restart it, it was doing the blank screen thing again.
Now, like I said before, when it does the blank screen the green power light on the case doesn't come on, but when it actually worked the green light did come on, so it obviously bears some significance to what the problem is.
The motherboard quite obviously still works now(ish), so any idea what the problem could be?
Not really at the moment but in the future...
Does SATA make much difference?
You can buy an NF7-S without SATA at a lower price.
NF7 it is then. By the time I get a SATA Hard Drive I'll probably be replacing everything else too.
NF7-S features Serial ATA. You can easily get by without SATA - my NF7-S has no SATA drives plugged into it atm :O)
(although that will change)
(although that will change)
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