Re: [Simply Computers] Computer won't start up - No logo or diagnostic info on screen - NEW MEMBER

 

Is the video built into the mothrboard or video card.
 
The video card may have slipped out of the slot.  Happened to me once.
 
AK
 

From: B Welkin <welkinator@gmail.com>
>To: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 10:42:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] Computer won't start up - No logo or diagnostic info on screen - NEW MEMBER
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>My first impression is bad power supply but..... I could be wrong.
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>In the shop I would disassemble the unit, put the hard drive in a
>known-good unit where it would be tested for viruses and imaged. If
>this couldn't be done then I'd think bad hard drive - but it rates
>low on my list of suspects. Then I would try to fire up the mobo -
>after stripping it down to it's underwear - with a known-good power
>supply. If not good there I would test the memory and, if I had a
>suitable CPU, I would substitute the processor. Somewhere in all this
>I would get a hint of what the problem likely is.
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>...Bryce
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>At 07:48 PM 8/3/2011, you wrote:
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>>Greetings friends, I am a new member of this group. I am not a
>>computer tech, I just know enough to get into trouble. I have
>>replaced memory, hard drives and a DVD Rom in an older computer.
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>>My problem today is a Gateway desktop with Win XP. We had a severe
>>thunderstorm the other night and I don't know if it's the cause of
>>my problems. I do have a whole house surge protector, and a APC UPS
>>with surge protection.
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>>My computer lights will turn on, and I will hear the fan going. The
>>Hard Drive light shows no activity. Even when I've had HD trouble in
>>the past, I at least got the Gateway logo, and the usual diagnostic
>>screens. This time nothing happens, no video to the monitor. I am
>>able to put a CD in the DVD/CD rom and it blinks, but nothing loads
>>or is shown on the monitor.
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>>Does this indicate a bad HD, or as I suspect a fried Motherboard?
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