No display at bootup

carlosvr6

carlosvr6

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Been given a pc to look at which was randomly freezing both in Win XP and sometimes on the post screen. I changed the PSU and ran memtest overnight which had no errors. Tried running Prime95 but the pc froze again. I've also changed the ide & floppy drive cables and given the fans a clean but it keeps freezing.

Now for some reason it wont display anything at bootup. The fans seems to kick in but no display.

What would be the most likely cause for this to happen? Faulty CPU? Mobo?

The specs are:

Jetway V266b
Athlon 2000XP with stock hsf
inno3d geforce4 mx
512+128 of generic PC100

Thanks
 
The display has decided to start working again after switching on this morning.

The computer is now freezing in safe mode with just the gfx card and memory plugged in. I have the side panel off so presume it's not an issue with heat.

Any ideas on why it's freezing?
 
mishima said:
Have you tried monitoring the CPU temperatures? What is the PSU you are using?
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I have noticed the cpu temps rise slightly on post everytime i have restarted the computer. The psu is a generic 350w that i swapped with the generic 300w that was already in there.
 
How many other things are you running beside that in the spec? HDDs etc? I would be pointing at the PSU even thought 350W-400W should be enough generic PSUs don't give out what they quote to. Do you have a spare branded PSU you could try?
 
mishima said:
How many other things are you running beside that in the spec? HDDs etc? I would be pointing at the PSU even thought 350W-400W should be enough generic PSUs don't give out what they quote to. Do you have a spare branded PSU you could try?
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One 20gb h/d, dvd rom, pci modem and a network card.
I dont have a branded psu either at work or home to test it with, sorry.
The old 300w psu has been in the computer for over the last 3yrs and has been working fine. I got the the 350w generic psu from a working machine.
At the moment no hdds, optical drives or pci card are connected but its freezing whilst posting.
 
Re-seat the cpu? :) Be handy if you can see how the thermal compound is doing on it also.

Do you have a different graphics card you can put in as well? (One that ypu know works obviously...)

Or if the graphics card will work in your system try it in there to make sure thats not at fault.
 
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