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Guys,
Need your help please, you know those quick 5 min jobs.....
My Mum's pc is an ancient 1GHz Athlon on an Abit IS7 motherboard. In response to a complaint about poor performance, I checked this morning and was astounded to find it only had one 256MB module of PC133 SDRAM. Ahh no problem says I, I've a spare one of those knocking around somewhere I'll just pop it in and Bob's your Uncle...
I took that RAM out of the slot, checked it and popped it back into the same slot with another one next to it. Try and boot up and 'no video signal' to the monitor.
I've checked the monitor on my PC (using DVI connection) and it works, however trying it on my Mum's its 'no signal' using either DVI or VGA.
I've replaced the original RAM in the slot it was in and no joy. I've tried the same RAM in every other slot - no joy and I've tried the other RAM in turn in each of the other slots and still no signal! I've tried a spare video card and the same 'no signal'. Am I correct in thinking that even if I have borked the RAM somehow, this wouldn't stop the BIOS loading and displaying?
My only other ideas are that somehow the AGP slot the video card plugs into (which is next to the RAM slot) has failed or maybe the M/B itself.
Any ideas please, I was hoping to escape this weekend but I'm feeling very guilty at the prospect of running away having killed her PC...!!!
Cheers,
Paul.
Need your help please, you know those quick 5 min jobs.....
My Mum's pc is an ancient 1GHz Athlon on an Abit IS7 motherboard. In response to a complaint about poor performance, I checked this morning and was astounded to find it only had one 256MB module of PC133 SDRAM. Ahh no problem says I, I've a spare one of those knocking around somewhere I'll just pop it in and Bob's your Uncle...
I took that RAM out of the slot, checked it and popped it back into the same slot with another one next to it. Try and boot up and 'no video signal' to the monitor.
I've checked the monitor on my PC (using DVI connection) and it works, however trying it on my Mum's its 'no signal' using either DVI or VGA.
I've replaced the original RAM in the slot it was in and no joy. I've tried the same RAM in every other slot - no joy and I've tried the other RAM in turn in each of the other slots and still no signal! I've tried a spare video card and the same 'no signal'. Am I correct in thinking that even if I have borked the RAM somehow, this wouldn't stop the BIOS loading and displaying?
My only other ideas are that somehow the AGP slot the video card plugs into (which is next to the RAM slot) has failed or maybe the M/B itself.
Any ideas please, I was hoping to escape this weekend but I'm feeling very guilty at the prospect of running away having killed her PC...!!!
Cheers,
Paul.