Wierd problem
This is a discussion about Wierd problem in the Windows Hardware category; Ok. . . . yesterday the fan on my Geforce card was making a grinding noise. I took the card out, removed the fan, cleaned it up a bit, put the fan back on and reinstalled the card. When I went to turn the computer back on, the hard drive lights and the CD-ROM drive came on and never shut back off.
Ok....yesterday the fan on my Geforce card was making a grinding noise. I took the card out, removed the fan, cleaned it up a bit, put the fan back on and reinstalled the card.
When I went to turn the computer back on, the hard drive lights and the CD-ROM drive came on and never shut back off. The monitor will turn on briefly then shuts off and displays the message "DPMS Mode Off". The computer never boots
I took the Geforce card out, threw it in another computer and it worked fine.
I put a PCI video card in my "bad" computer and the same thing happened.
Do you think I fried the motherboard?
I am getting a new mb/cpu today, but I did want to sell the current CPU and motherboard.
Any ideas?
When I went to turn the computer back on, the hard drive lights and the CD-ROM drive came on and never shut back off. The monitor will turn on briefly then shuts off and displays the message "DPMS Mode Off". The computer never boots
I took the Geforce card out, threw it in another computer and it worked fine.
I put a PCI video card in my "bad" computer and the same thing happened.
Do you think I fried the motherboard?
I am getting a new mb/cpu today, but I did want to sell the current CPU and motherboard.
Any ideas?
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You might want to check the RAM before you start blaming anything else; some motherboards won't boot if there is a seriously faulty stick of RAM onboard.
I would suggest removing all the RAM, then try one stick at a time, if it boots, then you know where the problem lies.
I had this problem once, it took me all weekend swapping out cards, hard drives, processors, fans and everything else, before I checked the RAM (needless to say, that was the last thing I checked!).
Hope this helps
AndyF
I would suggest removing all the RAM, then try one stick at a time, if it boots, then you know where the problem lies.
I had this problem once, it took me all weekend swapping out cards, hard drives, processors, fans and everything else, before I checked the RAM (needless to say, that was the last thing I checked!).
Hope this helps
AndyF
I would be tempted to remove everything attached to the motherboard (even the floppy drive, harddrive, and cdrom cables) until only the video card remains (that pci might be a good choice). I have seen once or twice where a BIOS had reset to default. Once I had removed everything, it came back up to the "splash screen", and I began adding items one by one, until all was well again. Hope it helps.
