Another problem

Maximilian

Lifer
Feb 8, 2004
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Anyone remember when i asked about the comp that wouldnt restart? Well if not it dosent really matter but just for the record this is the same comp im talkin about. It wont boot up anymore, Im thinking it could be the g-card//mobo//RAM heh now thats it narrowed down isnt it..... Anyways all i get is a blank screen, no bleeps no text just blank nothingness. This leads me to suspect the mobo cuz its supposed to bleep right? and the bleeps mean somthing right? but it dosent do this. G-cards the only component ive taken out and messed with (never dropped it or anything and held it with rubber glove to avoid static) so it should be fine but im not too sure.

Heres the specs:
CPU Intel® Pentium® 4 1.7 GHz
Motherboard Intel® Garibaldi D850GB (Tehama chipset)
Memory 128 MB PC800 RDRAM
Hard Drive 40GB Seagate St340823A
CD / DVD Drive 4x 4x 24x Toshiba® combi SD-R1002 DVD/CD-R/RW
Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive
Video / Graphics Card nVidia® Geforce2? MX 400 32MB
Sound Card SoundBlaster® 128 (PCI)
Speakers Creative Labs® SBS35
Modem Lucent® 56K V.90 Winmodem
Case Advent ATX case disassembley
Keyboard BTC® internet keyboard (PS/2)
Mouse Standard PS/2 mouse

i copied n pasted this so theres prolly irrilivent junk here too and i cant spell irrilivent :p
P.S should i put my 9800 PRO into it and see if it works?? would it work at all??
 

Fern

Elite Member
Sep 30, 2003
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Looks like time to pull the mobo outa the case and strip down to bare essentials (cpu+HSF, ram, vid card). I'd try leaving one of those out also to see if I could get the correct beep code. Yeah, the mobo would worry me if it didn't "beep" as it should.

I didn't see your Power supply listed, might try to swap another in for testing purposes as well.
 

Maximilian

Lifer
Feb 8, 2004
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PSU is a 400W noname (i think its noname)
But one weird thing is that this problem occurs every so often, it booted up today just fine but i know it aint gonna continue to do so. Im gonna see if it can boot up without a g-card and if not see if it can work with my 9800 pro and then if no luck umm im outta options lol, i dont have a mobo to switch it with and dont even know if i could do that anyways.