I recently ran into some computer troubles. I just moved and my computer survived the trip fine whereas my monitor did not and I replaced it with a spare IBM P260 my dad had. I plugged in the new monitor and booted it up and it worked fine. I left it on overnight and turned it off the next day. When I turned it on the next time, I pressed the power button and left the room for approximately 10 minutes.
When I went back in to use the computer, the mouse, keyboard, and monitor weren't responding. I turned the computer off and on a few times and left it unplugged for a few minutes to see if that would help. When it didn't, I opened up my computer case and noticed that my cpu fan wasn't running.
I turned my computer off right away and after some thought I plugged the cpu fan power four pronged head into a three pronged normal fan power slot. The fan worked and so did my computer. However, instead of booting up normally it did some sort of BIOS configuration. It did it all automatically and I didn't touch it while it was working. It then booted up Windows XP and everything worked fine. I watched a movie and played a few games. I left it on a few more hours and shut it down. That's the last time it was working
So now when I turn it on, it just goes into a reboot loop. Nothing appears on the monitor and my mouse and keyboard are unresponsive. It doesn't beep in the first few seconds like it used to. I'm not great with computers so here is what I have done to try to diagnose it so far. I switched out the power supply with a spare brand new one and no difference. I disconnected my hard drive and dvd reader/writer and no difference. I took out the battery and no difference but I have yet to replace the battery. I tried using one stick of memory in the first slot and even switched it for my other stick just to be sure one of them wasn't broken.
I read some that putting a jumper onto CMOS Clear could help and I took out the battery and put a jumper there. I am unsure what to do from there...it doesn't start up at all if the jumper is on there which is possibly what is supposed to happen? I left the jumper on for a few minutes and took it off and put the battery back in but still no luck.
My computer ran fine until now and I am started to get really frustrated with it. Here are the specs:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard Rev 2.0
2x sticks 1 GB Patriot DDR2 800MHz 5-5-5-12
Geforece 8600GT 540M 256MB DDR3 PCI-E
Intel Pentium Dual-Core 2.0 GHz
Seagate Barracuda 7200 250GB
Seasonic SS-550HT
PS2 Keyboard
USB Mouse
If it isn't possible to fix what should I do?
Sorry for the long block of info but I really want to get to the bottom of this.
Thanks
When I went back in to use the computer, the mouse, keyboard, and monitor weren't responding. I turned the computer off and on a few times and left it unplugged for a few minutes to see if that would help. When it didn't, I opened up my computer case and noticed that my cpu fan wasn't running.
I turned my computer off right away and after some thought I plugged the cpu fan power four pronged head into a three pronged normal fan power slot. The fan worked and so did my computer. However, instead of booting up normally it did some sort of BIOS configuration. It did it all automatically and I didn't touch it while it was working. It then booted up Windows XP and everything worked fine. I watched a movie and played a few games. I left it on a few more hours and shut it down. That's the last time it was working
So now when I turn it on, it just goes into a reboot loop. Nothing appears on the monitor and my mouse and keyboard are unresponsive. It doesn't beep in the first few seconds like it used to. I'm not great with computers so here is what I have done to try to diagnose it so far. I switched out the power supply with a spare brand new one and no difference. I disconnected my hard drive and dvd reader/writer and no difference. I took out the battery and no difference but I have yet to replace the battery. I tried using one stick of memory in the first slot and even switched it for my other stick just to be sure one of them wasn't broken.
I read some that putting a jumper onto CMOS Clear could help and I took out the battery and put a jumper there. I am unsure what to do from there...it doesn't start up at all if the jumper is on there which is possibly what is supposed to happen? I left the jumper on for a few minutes and took it off and put the battery back in but still no luck.
My computer ran fine until now and I am started to get really frustrated with it. Here are the specs:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard Rev 2.0
2x sticks 1 GB Patriot DDR2 800MHz 5-5-5-12
Geforece 8600GT 540M 256MB DDR3 PCI-E
Intel Pentium Dual-Core 2.0 GHz
Seagate Barracuda 7200 250GB
Seasonic SS-550HT
PS2 Keyboard
USB Mouse
If it isn't possible to fix what should I do?
Sorry for the long block of info but I really want to get to the bottom of this.
Thanks
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