Hi,
I've read on here a couple of times a method for determining which component of a PC has failed. Now in my time of need I can't find it so could somebody point me in the right direction.
The PC in question is a SFF PC used for a business and some really smart cookie appears to have thought the computer was a shelf and in the process of stacking things on top of it managed to cover up the air vents thus overheating the system.
The system tries to boot but doesn't appear to give me the option to get into bios and progresses rather rapidly to a screen saying: 'loading operating system' or something along those lines. I've had the HDD out and into my PC and it boots fine so obviously some other component has died, I'm guessing the mobo.
The build is an i3 540 build on a Gigabyte H55N-USB3 with 4GB OCZ Platinum RAM.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I've read on here a couple of times a method for determining which component of a PC has failed. Now in my time of need I can't find it so could somebody point me in the right direction.
The PC in question is a SFF PC used for a business and some really smart cookie appears to have thought the computer was a shelf and in the process of stacking things on top of it managed to cover up the air vents thus overheating the system.
The system tries to boot but doesn't appear to give me the option to get into bios and progresses rather rapidly to a screen saying: 'loading operating system' or something along those lines. I've had the HDD out and into my PC and it boots fine so obviously some other component has died, I'm guessing the mobo.
The build is an i3 540 build on a Gigabyte H55N-USB3 with 4GB OCZ Platinum RAM.
Any help would be much appreciated.
