I've been working with a PC built in 2002 for a few months now. It's got a 3.2 Dual Core CPU and 512x2 RAM and it apparently has cooling issues and crashes every now and then.
So yesterday, while just using Google Chrome and some other non-hardware intensive programs the entire PC shut down and wouldn't turn back on. I know it crashed once while I was using it and didn't turn on for a while after so I gave it an hour.
When that hour passed I came back, it still wouldn't turn on.
The lights on the motherboard were working and so were the case lights so this leads me to believe the PSU is working.
I noticed the CPU fan was like caked in dust. I didn't have any canned air so I used some que-tips to clean some of the dust out. I was careful, so I'm sure this didn't damage it (anymore than it already is) and it still doesn't turn on.
Now, replacing the CPU and RAM are easy enough but I don't know which isn't working. Is there any way to tell if either are working?
wouldn't the pc still work even though it had no ram/faulty ram?
I'm no expert, but wouldn't faulty RAM bring up a BSOD?
It would actually POST if you were to remove it I figured it out. It's the CPU. I think over the years the paste weathered and cause the CPU to overheat.
IIRC faulty ram results in a BIOS/system reboot loop error on XP.
I said it was the CPU.
You posted that literally one minute before i posted.
[QUOTE=Comrade General;24279442]IIRC faulty ram results in a BIOS/system reboot loop error on XP.[/QUOTE]
On single stick systems, it wont. or if somehow all your sticks went bad (Voodoo magical witchcraft right there broski) it won't POST at all. Otherwise, failing RAM, or a 1 stick went bad out of the bunch; BSOD/System reboot ahoy!
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