Dad computer - gone a bit weird!

robjf

robjf

robjf

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Hi there, im praying you lot can shed some light on this little predicament.

Basically my dads computer has been running fine for a fair while then all of a sudden it wont boot. The internals have not been touched whatsoever.

On boot up (when it finally boots up!) sometimes it says that the spu is unworkable and when you go into the bios, random characters start appearing on the screen and blocks of different colours, then it turns itself off.

I have no idea whats going on and as i dont have another computer with similar components to hand, cant check everything.

Thanks again.

Rob

PS. Its a P4 3.2 Northy with Abit IC7-G max motherboard. Ive tried reseting the CMOS.
 
Ive tried it with different memory and all the same things are happening. I just went to have another look and now it turns on for about a quarter of a second then turns itself off.

:S
 
Yeh thats what ive been thinking however i dont have any thermal paste at home, all my comp stuff is up in derby where i go to uni.
 
Ok i shall give it a go. Thankyou for the advice!

If anyone else has any ideas id be very appreciative of any more ideas :)

Rob
 
Right ive tried rebuilding it outside of the case. When i trip the 2 pins to turn it on, it boots up, sits at the boot screen complaining about the CMOS being reset to defaults (which i had done). I left it there for a few seconds and the screen starts to show loads of artefacts, lines of random colours then eventually turns off.

This is odd! Any ideas?

Rob
 
Is there anyway to test the power supply itself? Rather than having it plugged into the motherboard etc.
 
My dads got every piece of electrical testing equipment under the sun, im sure he can sort it with regards to the voltages.

Rob
 
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