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I let my mom borrow my old PC

Oceandevi

Oceandevi

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Athlon xp 2700 barton
Asrock MB


She had it on the carpet, and I told her to put it up. I am betting she never did and the static may have killed it.

Am I anywhere close? Anyone have this issue?

The power switch lights up and nothing happens. No fans move no sound from anywhere. Nothing moves. I have no idea how to fix this.

I have already swapped power supplies..... Could it be the mobo?
 
Friction of something rubbing against carpet (cloth from socks or rubber from shoes) is required in order for static to build up.

A computer simply sitting on the carpet is not going to spontaneously experience static one day.

If the physics were such to make that possible then everyone's walls, bookcases, tables, chairs, etc that are in contact with carpet all day everyday would magically be building up static charge.

Ever been zapped by a bookshelf?
 
It could be anything, but you're looking for a reason to blame dear old mom. :shocked: The unfortunate timing of your PC dying isn't because she didn't follow your placement instructions.

Think about all the times you didn't follow her advice or instructions...
Cut her some slack, she's your mom. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Friction of something rubbing against carpet (cloth from socks or rubber from shoes) is required in order for static to build up.

A computer simply sitting on the carpet is not going to spontaneously experience static one day.

If the physics were such to make that possible then everyone's walls, bookcases, tables, chairs, etc that are in contact with carpet all day everyday would magically be building up static charge.

Ever been zapped by a bookshelf?
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Yeah what was I thinking people don't walk on carpet.... :laugh:
 
Your mother didn't cause this. At least, not by putting it on the carpet. There's a BIG difference between handling electronic components while standing (or god forbid, walking) on carpet and placing a finished, grounded chassis down on top of it. (And people walking on the carpet nearby would have no effect whatsoever on the static charge directly in contact with the computer)

If you hit the switch and NOTHING happens, there's only a few things I've seen cause that:

1) PSU is dead. Assuming the one you already substituted in is good that's out.

2) The motherboard is dead.

3) The power switch has gone bad.

The last one is the one that, in my experience, rarely gets much consideration, but I've seen it happen a couple of times. Switches are a mechanical device and just as prone to failure as any other mechanical component. They're also REALLY easy to test, so I'd suggest you do that. Just remove the connector with the power switch from the interface header and use a small screwdriver (or any other conductive device) to briefly short together the two pins.

Unfortunately, if that doesn't do it it's likely the motherboard at that point. You can try removing all extraneous components (pretty much everything but the CPU, 1 stick of RAM, and video) and see if you get anything, but I wouldn't bet the farm on finding something else. Good luck though.
 
i bet she is playing a joke on you. She problem opened the case and disconnected the power cable. She's gettting you back. 🙂
 
I changed cases and PSU's to rule those out and now I can get it to boot, but with only 1 stick of ram. If I use both sticks it does the BSOD and restarts everytime.

With 1 it barely functions. Freezes up when opening files and folders.
I am thinking this mobo is damaged.
 
If one memory stick was bad the chances of the other being bad are... pretty good.

Cook yourself up a memtest disk and leave it on for a few hours. This could be fun. Personally, I love watching the errors rack up on my client's machines. They get a memory replacement and I get some money in my pocket!

Then again, if it's an Intel based board, the memory controller could be going bad...
 
I know a guy, that was modding his case with a Dremel, and the entire PC was still assembled, and he just started cutting and grinding on the case. Well. guess what happened ? lol All those little metal flakes flying around. When he powered back up, funny sh1t
 
Originally posted by: JPB
I know a guy, that was modding his case with a Dremel, and the entire PC was still assembled, and he just started cutting and grinding on the case. Well. guess what happened ? lol All those little metal flakes flying around. When he powered back up, funny sh1t
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lol what an idiot


yea run memtest and then post back. make sure you get v1.7 as its the latest.
 
Well it crashed when I tried to start wow. I have 2 sticks of ddr266 I can use.

Don't you need a floppy to use memtest? I don't have any..
 
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
[BI changed cases [/b] -- I never heard of a case causing issues...hmmmm

and PSU's to rule those out and now I can get it to boot, but with only 1 stick of ram. If I use both sticks it does the BSOD and restarts everytime.

With 1 it barely functions. Freezes up when opening files and folders.
I am thinking this mobo is damaged.
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Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
[BI changed cases [/b] -- I never heard of a case causing issues...hmmmm

and PSU's to rule those out and now I can get it to boot, but with only 1 stick of ram. If I use both sticks it does the BSOD and restarts everytime.

With 1 it barely functions. Freezes up when opening files and folders.
I am thinking this mobo is damaged.
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The switch was faulty. They were not interchangeable. I did the screwdriver trick on the old one and it started it. So I just changed to another case that had a functioning switch.

Is this the hard way? I have alot of unused stuff in totes, I try to use it for something.
 
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