Hi,
Got a strange one here - an HP G5200 desktop belonging to an elderly relative. It sees hardly any use and recently when they moved house it was a few days before the PC was taken out of storage and plugged back in at their new house. The problem is that when its plugged into the mains and you press the power button, the green light on the PSU comes on and the fans all spin up. I'm pretty sure the hard drive does too but there is no accompanying 'beeps' which I imagine it should do when it posts. Nothing, everything just sits powered up and there's nothing on the monitor. So I swapped out the PSU with a new one but it does the same. Had a spare, working PCI GPU card (the computer uses onboard graphics) so I fitted that and tried it. Still nothing.
Gave up and had lunch, then an hour later I went back to it, plugged it back into the mains and it fired up immediately, straight to Windows. The time in the taskbar was showing 00:00 and the date was January 2002. So I changed all that and shut it down to see if it would reboot. It didn't.
Left it a few hours, unplugged and tried again, this time it started up fine as if nothing had happened! I'm beginning to think the damn thing is possessed!!
I then opened it back up and swapped the CMOS battery out with a new CR2032. I unplugged it and held the power button down for a minute and tried booting again. Nothing this time, just lights and spins fans. Essentially, it refuses to start unless you leave it unplugged for an hour or so.
Any suggestions?
Got a strange one here - an HP G5200 desktop belonging to an elderly relative. It sees hardly any use and recently when they moved house it was a few days before the PC was taken out of storage and plugged back in at their new house. The problem is that when its plugged into the mains and you press the power button, the green light on the PSU comes on and the fans all spin up. I'm pretty sure the hard drive does too but there is no accompanying 'beeps' which I imagine it should do when it posts. Nothing, everything just sits powered up and there's nothing on the monitor. So I swapped out the PSU with a new one but it does the same. Had a spare, working PCI GPU card (the computer uses onboard graphics) so I fitted that and tried it. Still nothing.
Gave up and had lunch, then an hour later I went back to it, plugged it back into the mains and it fired up immediately, straight to Windows. The time in the taskbar was showing 00:00 and the date was January 2002. So I changed all that and shut it down to see if it would reboot. It didn't.
Left it a few hours, unplugged and tried again, this time it started up fine as if nothing had happened! I'm beginning to think the damn thing is possessed!!
I then opened it back up and swapped the CMOS battery out with a new CR2032. I unplugged it and held the power button down for a minute and tried booting again. Nothing this time, just lights and spins fans. Essentially, it refuses to start unless you leave it unplugged for an hour or so.
Any suggestions?
