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MT01XP

MT01XP

MT01XP

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I left my PC on overnight and this morning when I turned the monitor on to use it I found that the mouse and the keyboard were non-responsive and the monitor was displaying the image on the screen of how I had left it the night before.

I re-booted the PC, it got past post and it got stuck whilst loading windows. I then shut down completely, left the pc off for a few minutes and tried starting it up again. This time the monitor only displayed 'no signal on input'.

I took the graphics card out of the pc in question and tested it in another build with the same monitor and it worked fine, hence I assume the monitor and the graphics card are not the problem. Having put the graphics card back in, disconnected the HDDs, floppy, DVDs and removed the PCI cards, reaseated the memory I turned it on and still the monitor says 'no signal on input'. The unit powers up fine and all the fans that should be running, are.

I even tried removing the graphics card and turning the PC on without it and there were no beep warnings.

Any ideas what's up?

Thanks
 
Take the RAM out & power it up, that'll sort it out, ie it will bleep then, & maybe cure the "fault". If it doesn't bleep CPU &/or PCB or PSU is most probably at fault. Swap PSU is easy enough, then it is upgrade time.
 
Nick644622 said:
Take the RAM out & power it up, that'll sort it out, ie it will bleep then, & maybe cure the "fault". If it doesn't bleep CPU &/or PCB or PSU is most probably at fault. Swap PSU is easy enough, then it is upgrade time.
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When I removed the memory it beeped accordingly. Put it back in and still the monitor only displays 'no signal on input'. I've just swapped PSUs and that didn't help either. So it's got to be either the CPU or the Mobo. Not sure how I can tell which. :confused:
 
Upgrade time I am thinking. Mixed blessing I suppose. You should be able to recoup some of the cost by selling the Memory & Graphics card if you can test them before selling.
 
Nick644622 said:
Upgrade time I am thinking. Mixed blessing I suppose. You should be able to recoup some of the cost by selling the Memory & Graphics card if you can test them before selling.
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I'm thinking the same.

Money's tight at the moment and in the not to distant future I'd be looking to spend maybe £1.5K on a new rig (quad core) so I'm reluctant to spend too much now.

Here's what I'm thinking for a budget option to keep me going:

  • AMD AM2 Athlon 64 4800+ Windsor Core, Dual Core 2.5GHz, 2x 512KB Cache, Energy Eff'' CPU - Retail
  • Abit NF-M2S SKT AM2 DDR2, SATA2, GLAN, Audio Motherboard
  • OCZ 2GB KIT (2x1024MB) DDR2 800 (PC6400) Platinum XTC Memory

Could pick up today from a local retailer for £130 and just use the onboard graphics until I buy a dedicated GPU.

What do you think?

Would I see a noticable difference compared to the current setup?
 
MT01XP said:
Here's what I'm thinking for a budget option to keep me going:

  • AMD AM2 Athlon 64 4800+ Windsor Core, Dual Core 2.5GHz, 2x 512KB Cache, Energy Eff'' CPU - Retail
  • Abit NF-M2S SKT AM2 DDR2, SATA2, GLAN, Audio Motherboard
  • OCZ 2GB KIT (2x1024MB) DDR2 800 (PC6400) Platinum XTC Memory
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Also, would my existing 450W PSU be adequate?
 
For that price, why not pick up a E2140, Gigabyte P35-DS3 and 2GB of GeIL or something similar from OCUK? I'm guessing it'll be the same price, will be a similar speed and overclock much better :)
 
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