Recent content by Sandivar

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    ECS plus Athlon XP 2100 trouble booting

    Okay, trying to fix my friend's computer. Just wouldn't turn on for her one day. I troubleshot it to what appears to be a burned out CPU--black all around the middle of the CPU on both the pin side and top side, plus the fan was all clogged with dust. Bought a used chip (guaranteed...
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    Monitor Turns off

    Dunno if this will help or not, but my friend's Dell 19" LCD was doing that; the computer was still running fine but no monitor. She had to completely power off the monitor, wait a little while, then power it back on. Then it would only come on for a few seconds. She repeated that until she...