apu95
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So one of my PCs here at home decided to stop booting. Everything spins up but I get no video signal when I press the power button. The HDD led is constantly on and nothing else happens. I started testing the components and everything seems to be working. This is what I did:
- Checked the CPU by turning the PC on without the CPU fan to see if the CPU would warm up.
- Checked the RAM by taking it out and turning on the PC. The PC then made a beeping noise when it had no RAM. I concluded the RAM was fine since there was no beeping when the RAM was inside.
- Checked the monitor by hooking it up to my laptop.
- The motherboard shows me a green LED (Intel D865GBFL), I figured it was also fine.
- I reset the CMOS/BIOS by taking out the battery as well as using the jumper pins to reset it.
- Took out all cards and tried turning it on.
- Tested the PSU by disconnecting the main motherboard connector and shorting the green wire with a ground. The PSU's fan turned on, leading me to conclude the PSU is still working.
I can't think of any other tests to run, it's driving me nuts...
- Checked the CPU by turning the PC on without the CPU fan to see if the CPU would warm up.
- Checked the RAM by taking it out and turning on the PC. The PC then made a beeping noise when it had no RAM. I concluded the RAM was fine since there was no beeping when the RAM was inside.
- Checked the monitor by hooking it up to my laptop.
- The motherboard shows me a green LED (Intel D865GBFL), I figured it was also fine.
- I reset the CMOS/BIOS by taking out the battery as well as using the jumper pins to reset it.
- Took out all cards and tried turning it on.
- Tested the PSU by disconnecting the main motherboard connector and shorting the green wire with a ground. The PSU's fan turned on, leading me to conclude the PSU is still working.
I can't think of any other tests to run, it's driving me nuts...