Just had someone drop their computer round as they had problems with it booting.
Now had a look at it and from what I can work out it's possibly a motherboard issue.
Everything inside looks seated ok and everything is plugged in fine.
Now whats happening is I power the thing on and it lights up ok, fan on the cpu spinning and thats about it. Power to the dvd drivers are there also.
Nothing is being outputted to the monitor, i've plugged the sound card in and I can't hear the windows boot up tune so based on that I don't think anythings happening in the background. Also I can't hear any real hard drive activity like you'd expect when booting into an OS.
It also seems a little random when powering the thing off and on, sometimes the cpu fan will start fast then really slow down, although I expect this to be down to some temperature management thing in the bios. However other times the an starts fast and remains fast, again possibly down to temperature.
Also on one boot I was getting a long repeating beep at 3-4 second intervals which according to the motherboard manual is a memory error. So decided to take out the 2 sticks f ram and re-seat and the memory error didn't show.
I'm now back at the stage where nothing is actually happening in that the computer is lighting up, the fans are spinning, however nothing is outputting to the screen so on first thoughts I'd say graphics problem, but theres also no sound from the sound card indicating it's booting into windows. Theres also no bios beep like you get when you first start pc's up although I think you can turn this off is the bios.
So what you think guy's graphics card or motherboard problem ?
Now had a look at it and from what I can work out it's possibly a motherboard issue.
Everything inside looks seated ok and everything is plugged in fine.
Now whats happening is I power the thing on and it lights up ok, fan on the cpu spinning and thats about it. Power to the dvd drivers are there also.
Nothing is being outputted to the monitor, i've plugged the sound card in and I can't hear the windows boot up tune so based on that I don't think anythings happening in the background. Also I can't hear any real hard drive activity like you'd expect when booting into an OS.
It also seems a little random when powering the thing off and on, sometimes the cpu fan will start fast then really slow down, although I expect this to be down to some temperature management thing in the bios. However other times the an starts fast and remains fast, again possibly down to temperature.
Also on one boot I was getting a long repeating beep at 3-4 second intervals which according to the motherboard manual is a memory error. So decided to take out the 2 sticks f ram and re-seat and the memory error didn't show.
I'm now back at the stage where nothing is actually happening in that the computer is lighting up, the fans are spinning, however nothing is outputting to the screen so on first thoughts I'd say graphics problem, but theres also no sound from the sound card indicating it's booting into windows. Theres also no bios beep like you get when you first start pc's up although I think you can turn this off is the bios.
So what you think guy's graphics card or motherboard problem ?