New Unrelated issues....

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:13 pm

Oh boy, has this been the week from hell for the PCs in my house... The GF was on her machine tonight, when she got a BSOD with the usual cryptic message, (Running WinXP) and it told her to reboot. She did so, and the machine would not boot. No POST, no memory test, no video, nothing. The fans came on, but nothing else. The machine has integrated video, so It could be that, but it should still POST and I should hear the beep from the memory test, right? I'm thinking the mainboard or the BIOS is fried or something... It's not all that bad if it is, but I just want to be sure before I drop the bucks on a new board / CPU combo.

XMEN Iceman · Post by **XMEN Iceman** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:27 pm

Re-seat all cards and memory, then pull the power cord, clear the CMOS.

Wait 10 minutes

THEN plug back in the power and try again. Sometimes it is just that finicky.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:31 pm

I hope that's right.. (Then again, I kinda hope it's the board.. Does that make me a bad person? LOL)

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:33 am

I got it figured.. took the damn thing pretty much apart, reseated everything, and it works.. here's to waiting to see how long I have to go before I have to do it again... LOL

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:53 pm

Dust? Got cats?

Glad is OK now.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:30 am

Yes to a cat, no dust in the case.. it just needed a good jostling of components... The case was as clean inside as I've seen... It's not a high performance system, so it's pretty quiet.. only one fan on the back of the case.. but I'm going to remedey that in the next day or two, now that I have my new fans.