pc hardware problem
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:55 pm
I have a spare pc I'm fixing up but it doesn't boot.
No POST beep. No bios. Monitor says no signal.
I originally thought it was the hard drive because the hdd led wasn't lighting up, but after hooking up my hard drive to it, and hooking that hard drive up into my pc, the hard drive is fine.
I tried removing the ram and re-seating it piece by piece.. still no beep. Tried hooking up my PSU to that motherboard.. but it didn't even power on (why?). I tried taking out the mobo battery but that didn't work (with it out, or when i placed it back in).
The only things I can think of that are left are the cpu, graphics card, and motherboard. Can I successfully test that it's the graphics card by hooking up a spare one? Will it bypass the built in graphics card that may be bad?
How can i test the mobo and cpu?
EDIT| Before it crapped out, the monitor would randomly go off and the pc would have to be rebooted before it would come back on so I'm thinking the GPU.. however, it did have a fair amount of shutting down improperly because when people rebooted it they would just unplug it or hold the power button down.
No POST beep. No bios. Monitor says no signal.
I originally thought it was the hard drive because the hdd led wasn't lighting up, but after hooking up my hard drive to it, and hooking that hard drive up into my pc, the hard drive is fine.
I tried removing the ram and re-seating it piece by piece.. still no beep. Tried hooking up my PSU to that motherboard.. but it didn't even power on (why?). I tried taking out the mobo battery but that didn't work (with it out, or when i placed it back in).
The only things I can think of that are left are the cpu, graphics card, and motherboard. Can I successfully test that it's the graphics card by hooking up a spare one? Will it bypass the built in graphics card that may be bad?
How can i test the mobo and cpu?
EDIT| Before it crapped out, the monitor would randomly go off and the pc would have to be rebooted before it would come back on so I'm thinking the GPU.. however, it did have a fair amount of shutting down improperly because when people rebooted it they would just unplug it or hold the power button down.