• PC wont boot to BIOS
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This is the first time I resort to Facepunch to solve a computer problem, but I'm out of ideas. To start from the beginning, yesterday I got home and turned on my computer, everything went fine, got into windows, logged in on Steam and chatted with a friend for 5 minutes or so until he decided we should play Magicka, so I start Magicka and the computer screen freezes. This was the first crash I've had in a few months as usually when my PC crashes is due to dust inside, I rebooted. This is where the problem began, the computer starts up but won't show anything, no USB devices are powered up except for those with external power supplies and the monitor detects the computer has been turned on but there is nothing displayed on the screen, it just stays blank. More facts that might help you help me :v: What seems to be working: - PC boots Hard Drives (I can hear them working), DVD drives, the CPU fan and at least the graphics card fan is working. - The LEDs on the DVD drives light up and then turn off as the PC starts. Which has always been like that. - There are no warning beeps produced. What's wrong: - The LEDs on the frontal panel where I have 2 frontal USB ports and an SD Card Reader light up and stay like that, they used to turn off and blink when something was plugged in before. - Almost none of the USB devices connected turn on, only those that have external power supplies (screen, external HDDs). - There's no display on the screen, nothing shows up, not even the BIOS setup screen. What I've done: - Clean up all the dust inside. - Take every component out and disconnected every cable, reassembled the PC and nothing (yes, I made sure I was grounded) - Take the BIOS battery off, even replaced it with a new one. What I haven't done: - Turn on the PC with most of the components disconnected. So tell me facepunch, is it dead for good or might salvation still be possible for this 2 year old machine? I searched on google and apparently some motherboards can do that if at least one piece of Hardware is damaged, so I'll try to disconnect the hardware components one by one when I get home, leaving only the essentials.
This happened to me and it turns out my RAM died. If you have some spare RAM go chuck that it and see.
I don't have any spare but I'll try plugging one at a time, maybe just one of them is broken if it's the RAM at all. Thanks for the suggestion .
That didn't work, I'm out of ideas. I could take it to a computer repair shop but they'll probably try to rip me off and I was thinking of buying a laptop so I'll just get the ASUS ROG G73JW and forget about the Desktop :v:
Give the computer to me so I can salvage parts from it i like parts [editline]1st February 2011[/editline] Also sounds like an overheating problem, possibly something wrong with the PSU
[QUOTE=Xolo;27795928]Give the computer to me so I can salvage parts from it i like parts [editline]1st February 2011[/editline] Also sounds like an overheating problem, possibly something wrong with the PSU[/QUOTE] It could be anything really.
It's failing to post. Could be a few things some bad ram, a bad cpu or a corrupt bios. Those are my best guesses.
Or, you know, bad caps on the motherboard.
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