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Old 06-13-2004, 02:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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OK, guys, I'm not really sure if this doesn't belong to the HARDWARE section, but I'll post it here anyway. Here's the deal:

Two days ago my PC broke. It got a shock from the 220V power, I guess... so, the Power supply box burned out. Tried to fix it - didn't work... so I got a new power supply to try it out.

So now, when I switch on my PC, I see the keyboard LEDs blinking one time as normal and then the DUAL BIOS logo

Athlon 1700+
512 MB RAM testing OK

and in the bottom:

Press DEL to enter setup, or pres ESC to end memory test

and then nothing - the keyboard is dead (Although I tried it on another PC - the kbd is working fine) and I can't do shit

One more thing: when I press the RESET button, the PC doesn't start at all. It just makes funny beeps once every second or so.

Any suggestions where to look for the problem?

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RADEON 9000 Pro

Ah, and one last thing - when I start the PC with the HDD off it doesn't even complain that there is no system disc (you know - Primary boot disk failure shit) so the problem is somewhere before the booting part for sure
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Old 06-13-2004, 03:35 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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maybe Bios Chip is Fried
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Old 06-13-2004, 06:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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i think sumthin is fried!! open ya cpu! and look whats burned out!!
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Old 06-13-2004, 06:57 PM   #4 (permalink)
 
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k u say that it beeps 1 time per sec, so its either the memory or the motherboard, my guess is memory.

the run on self test first checks the memory then the HD , so i guess its the memory...

try to pull out the memory and place it back correctly and load bios defaults!
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Trie to change some parts:
like 1 get from someone processor(different) and watch if it dosnt help
2 get different power supply
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I had a similar problem a while back, turned out to be a dodgy memory stick, however could also be that your bios is fried, dont you just hate it when that happens, computers eh?
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im fairly sure you fried your motherboard too, or at least parts of it. at least your cpu, ram and videocard works
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Old 06-14-2004, 12:23 PM   #8 (permalink)
 
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"so the problem is somewhere before the booting part for sure "
Id say motherboard or RAM. Id say check RAM first somthing similar happened to me once, had wrong RAM in motherboard and got one beep every second or so.
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Old 06-14-2004, 01:29 PM   #9 (permalink)
 
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I tried it with the RAM out and it omplained that there is no RAM. I have 2 plates of RAM annd I tried it with each of them separately and it found out it only has 256MB... gotta try it with the CPU out
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Old 06-19-2004, 12:03 PM   #10 (permalink)
 
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Comon, guys, I expect some expert opinions here!
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