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Power to pc but nothing else
I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way
and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now out of ideas. |
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"Ron" wrote in message ... I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now out of ideas. Everything you report points towards a hardware issue. You do not even mention the word "Windows". The experts in microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware might be best qualified to provide advice. |
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Ron wrote:
I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now out of ideas. Is there any evidence elsewhere in the house of there having been an electrical problem, e.g., clocks not at the right time, appliances needing to be reset, etc.? -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Power to pc but nothing else
"Ron" wrote in message
... I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. In your place I would take the RAM chips to a PC shop that can test them reliably. A single bad RAM unit can have effects like this. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Power to pc but nothing else
sounds like a difficult
issue to figure out. what I first try is to boot into the bios and ensure that the time and devices are are recognized. if the bios time is incorrect, and the device settings are blanked out, then it is likely the cmos battery went bad. if however, your bios settings are ok and still can't get the system to boot via the hard drive, then you will likely have to boot with a xp cd and bypass the hard drive. (to do the above you may need to re enter the bios and change the primary boot device to cd) then at the xp setup screen launch the repair/recovery console and see if you get to a disk prompt. if so, then I would run a fixmbr chkdsk /r fixboot then exit, remove cd and try to boot via hard drives. -- -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - @Hotmail.com - nntp Postologist ~ "share the nirvana" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Ron" wrote in message ... I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now out of ideas. |
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On 16 May, 22:34, Ron wrote:
I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way and also switched of the power at the mains *as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it *does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains *on off switch.. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now out of ideas. Forgot to mention I am running Windows XP pro on a 7 year old, home built pc with 2mb ram. Recently tried Windows 7 but did not like it and reformatted and reinstalled XP. |
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On 16 May, 23:07, "Db" wrote:
sounds like a difficult issue to figure out. what I first try is to boot into the bios and ensure that the time and devices are are recognized. Can't get this far a there is no activity at all other than the power supply. No signal to the monitor. |
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hmm?
it is likely that the monitor and hard disks would function on a different system. so it sounds to me that your bios is not detecting your hardware. seemingly you should be able to hold down either the del key or f2 key immediately after pressing the power button on in order to load up the bios setup page but if you can't even get into the bios then perhaps the power supply is the problem -- -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - @Hotmail.com - nntp Postologist ~ "share the nirvana" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Ron" wrote in message ... On 16 May, 23:07, "Db" wrote: sounds like a difficult issue to figure out. what I first try is to boot into the bios and ensure that the time and devices are are recognized. Can't get this far a there is no activity at all other than the power supply. No signal to the monitor. |
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Lem lemp40@unknownhost typed: Ron wrote: I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also cant shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now out of ideas. Is there any evidence elsewhere in the house of there having been an electrical problem, e.g., clocks not at the right time, appliances needing to be reset, etc.? Or you left the modem plugged into the phone line and had lightning storms while you were away? Phone lines are the usual method of surges and spikes that can cause damage. But the advice to check with the hardware group was good; that's really where you need to go. They'll know to ask you if the mobo LED, PSU LED, etc. are lit, what color they are and all that good stuff. I'm going to guess you either have something shorted killing a power rail or a missing voltage from the power supply. But try the other group for better considerations. HTH, Twayne` |
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Power to pc but nothing else
"Ron" wrote in message ....
I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch. I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard, including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to power up each time but I just get the same thing. I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000 with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now out of ideas. Try removing and reseating the memory modules. Also, you might test or simply replace the power supply. If neither of these help, check the mother- board manual for "BIOS Rescue". Ben |
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