just powering up!

Skullbones · 25 Jun 2006 at 10:33

new one on me here. Chap at work asked me to look at his "emachine" PC World piece of $%£"

How about this, when you plug in the kettle lead the fan spins up, disconnect the complex header lead, still spins up, ? thoughts anyone, I've not seen this but maybe you all know the cause and better still the fix?? The only info I have is that he thinks his housemate might have twisted the mouse lead to the point it might have shorted across but???

There is no signal on the GFX out. No Mobo beeps at all, just what looks to be a very slowly spinning fan on the heatsink

If you want to know, it's 2.6 intel, can't tell you much more cos it don't work lol
Thoughts welcome peeps! :confused:

Paul11 · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:07

is the graphics on board or is it a seperate card?

does it sound lilke the hard drives spin up when you switch it on ?

xirokx · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:11

can you clarify some more pls?

How about this, when you plug in the kettle lead the fan spins up, disconnect the complex header lead, still spins up, ? thoughts anyone

so when the power lead is connected the pc boots up fine (into windows and works perfectly well?)

and when you disconnect the power lead the pc still boots up and takes you into windows etc?

pls clarify...

hmmmmm

Paul11 · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:14

Skullbones said:
There is no signal on the GFX out.
No Mobo beeps at all,
can't tell you much more cos it don't work

xirokx · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:21

open it up and test the parts separately on another rig....

test the psu, cpu+hsf, RAM, mobo, gpu.....

trial n error mate...

Skullbones · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:34

just to clarify, the Heatsink fan spins up but nothing else happens at all, no Hard Drive, No GFX output, no post of any description!

I think the "take all parts and test individually" is going to be the route here but to be honest I'm too busy and cannot test the CPU as it's a nasty Intel!, only do AMD round here!

Besides all that, it's small form, and a nightmare to get at anything, full strip down needed, as I said....no time here

Thanks anyway guys, just hoping there was a known issue with those symptoms

Skullbones · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:38

Paulus, the GFX is Radeon 9200 se card

Cody · 25 Jun 2006 at 11:43

We have had a few of these at work it is usually the PSU (Besttec 250W) and or motherboard. We had 2 customers who bought theirs at the same time and their PSUs failed within 2 weeks of each other, they somehow always manage to last just over a year though.

Also for some reason they won't POST when replaced with 300/350W Q-Tecs but will with a similar cheap PSU.