Q. A colleague has problems with his home PC. The other day, while his daughter was online, the computer just went blank. She did not know that something unusual to do, it just went blank. If you are in the computer on, the fans and everything inside the tower, but his screen shows only “No Signal”. He pulled the battery out and put it back in and reset the CMOS after the computer booted and ran fine. He saw the two screws holding the cable to its ATI graphics card was broken (common problem with the AIW 9600XT) so he put the computer as he was replacing the cable screws to repair. Once he had the cable to the graphics card, the computer would not boot. The monitor displays the same as they before.
He a computer store and she suggested that he try to replace the battery to see if that helps. So he was planning on buying a new battery to try today and I have not heard if it worked or not. I told him I would see if anyone on this forum could offer different ideas on what to check or what could be an Intel D865PERL wrong.
The board. I think it has 512 MB RAM, ATI AIW 9600XT graphics card, do not know what processor and Windows XP Home.
Any how much would be appreciated.
Thanks
Best Answer: A hard drive defect is not going to prevent you turning your machine on. Nor is a virus. Either may stop your machine booting but would not cause the error you describe. There are three or four possible causes. In rough order of probability:
1) A main memory problem. Try pulling out and reinserting the memory modules to ensure that they are correctly seated.
2) A graphics card problem. Try removing and reinserting that for the same reason.
3) A cooling issue. Make sure the fans are connected, in particular the fan on top of the CPU.
4) Possibly a PSU issue if it is severely overloaded. However, I would not expect this unless you had installed any new hardware recently.
I also have a brief guide that may be useful at http://andrews.freeshell.org/misc/WontSt… although that supposes basic familiarity with working on hardware, such as how to use a multimeter.
Re:sorry for delayed responce, I forgot about this thread.
After getting my main computer reloaded I took the video card from my other computer over to his house and tried that and nothing changed.
We swapped out power supplies with an extra one I had just to make sure it wasn't that, and it wasn't.
He was getting so frustrated with it he said screw and just ordered a new motherboard.
This time he got a ASUS motherboard (can't remember the exact model) but he's running a P4 3.0 socket478. So one day after work I went over there and replaced the board and reloaded his windows. Everything has been working fine since then.
Still don't know what exactly was the problem with the motherboard but replacing it solved the issue.
Re:Logically, the Video card is what is causing the problem. Check that first.
Re:I thought about taking one out of one of my computers but I'm currently reloading everything on my main computer so I've been using my other computer that I usually don't use much. Maybe once I have my main computer back we can try using the card from my other computer.
In the meantime though, I was just wondering if there is anything else he can try or test?
Thanks
Re:Well….a friend would lend him his!
Re:He would but he doesn't have another graphics card to try.
He doesn't mind having to go buy a new part to fix the problem, he just wants to make sure what it is first instead of just throwing money at it and buying something that doesn't fix his problem.
Is there any other way to check if it is the graphics card?
Re:Try a different graphics card. If it works, then replace the card.
Re:anyone have any suggestions?
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