Dead computer, please help.

[NateDiesel]

I push power and the power supply and all the fans get working. The keyboard lights flash once. The dvd drive accesses a bit. The mobo light is on and green.

There is no signal to the monitor. I try the keyboard shortcut to shut it down again, thinking maybe xp loaded but there's nothing. The xp startup sound didnt play anyways.

I remove the case. The cpu fan was not fastened securely. It was on it but not locked in over the cpu.

I was thinking of goin to get a new mobo and cpu.

Anyways, any help appreciated.

 

[robisbell]

detailed system specs, if you please.

 

[NateDiesel]

amd 2 windsor 3800+

digiworks 1gb 5300 gold ram

st 250gb 16mb sata 2

asus m2a mvp

xfx 7600gt 256 zalman

lh 20a1p

iw c583

manic 500w

I'm in Korea and this is what I tried translating from what he wrote.

Thanks!

 

[robisbell]

are you translating for someone else that is having the issues described?

I'd recommend that they manually test the PSU with and without a load on it with a multimeter.

 

[NateDiesel]

Nah it's my computer, I'm just saying I assume what I wrote is understandable. Like st must be Seagate.

Maybe I'll see if a friend has a psu I can test? I wonder how much a multimeter is. Hehe. And the korean word for it...

 

[robisbell]

????

need to test your PSU before you start messing things up by swapping parts out randomly.

 

[NateDiesel]

The guy in the hardware store said he didn't know how to test a psu with a multimeter. Then we figured one of my ram chips must be bad cuz everything works fine if we remove it. Thanks for the replies!

 

[robisbell]

it's easily found via Google, how to test a PSU with a multimeter.