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non-working HP pc...

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dboy

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A friend asked me to take a look at his dead HP pc. It's a XT933, which is a June 2001 model w/ 1ghz Athlon in it. When you turn it on, you hear fans and such, but nothing on the screen - doesn't even get the monitor out of power save mode. Anything else I can try? Their site is useless, and I'm not seeing even a bios come up to check things. It's onboard video, so I can't switch cards to check that (no agp slot either, pci only) The drives and fans have power, but nothing is going out to the screen. Is it completely dead, or is there something I should be trying?
 
It's pretty much down to playing the game of swapping parts. I'd try the memory first. CPU would probably be my second guess.

If it has 2 DIMMS you could try one at a time, that's easy.

Does it beep? Can you make sure the PCI cards are seated properly?
 
Can you find an old pci video card? You don't need anything fancy to see if it will boot. Even an old 1 meg would tell you if had a video or motherboard prob.
 
It has a single 128meg pc100 in it (2 slots) and I don't have any of that around - all of my computer are DDR. I also don't have any spare vid cards (pci or agp) around. I haven't been upgrading long enough obviously!

The only card in it is the modem. For kicks, I pulled out the modem, ram, HD, cdrw, dvd, and floppy. It's now just a mobo and proc. Acted exactly the same - fans spin, no beeps, no signal, nothing. I'm starting to think maybe it's a dead mobo or video, probably not worth fixing. Unless someone has good suggestion, I'll recommend that he get a new pc and sells off the parts from this.
 
If it powers up but the floppy drive doesn't do it's little check during BIOS (or about when BIOS does it) it's more likely the motherboard than the video. All things said and done though, I think a new pc would be the go.
 
I don't think I've heard any floppy searching noises at boot, so I'm guessing a dead mobo is indeed the problem. Anyone know if these HPs have proprietary mobos (power connection, standoff locations, back panel)? I'm guessing they'd like it if I could just stick a new board in there (and I'm betting I could get a nice old amd board fairly cheaply)...
 
I had exactly the same problem with one of those HP's a couple of weeks ago..........turned out to be the motherboard. I ended up buying one on the forum for $25 shipped..... beats scrapping the whole pc🙂:sun:😛 LOL, I can just see telling customers "I think a new pc would be the way to go", LOL
 
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