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Troubleshooting old self-build

inigo · 2015-05-03 12:36:42

A few years ago I built a PC with help from this forum. Being in the spare room and having a laptop and a phone, I'd forgotten about it for years until recently. Problem is it won't boot up. Everything is as I left it the last time. I've checked for lose connections, all fans start up, num lock key on keyboard works,…

03-05-2015 12:36pm

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inigo

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A few years ago I built a PC with help from this forum.

Being in the spare room and having a laptop and a phone, I'd forgotten about it for years until recently. Problem is it won't boot up. Everything is as I left it the last time. I've checked for lose connections, all fans start up, num lock key on keyboard works, there's no sound coming from the hard drive. The cd/dvd drive makes a sound that repeats maybe every second but it won't open (the green light flashes once when I press the button).

Any ideas where the problem could lie?

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#2 03-05-2015 12:43pm

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Anything on the display?

Try removing the ram and reseating it, or without ram, and then one stick at a time. Clearing the CMOS might work, there's a little silver, disc shaped battery in there. Remove it and wait 10 minutes, then push it back in and try again

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#3 03-05-2015 1:22pm

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Thanks DS. Nothing on the display. Reseating the ram didn't work. And taken the battery out... didn't work either.

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#4 03-05-2015 1:26pm

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Any beeps when you try to boot it with no ram?

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#5 03-05-2015 1:30pm

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Nope

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#6 03-05-2015 1:31pm

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Likely the motherboard then, though its possibly the PSU. Any friends or shops where you can test a different PSU?

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#7 03-05-2015 1:35pm

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We may have some lying around at work from old PCs...

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#8 03-05-2015 1:50pm

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Unplug the dvd drive as i've seen a dodgy one causing a pc not to boot.

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#9 03-05-2015 1:53pm

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I'm afraid I tried that also...

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#10 04-05-2015 6:22pm

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Remove psu and plug it in onits own. See if fan of light comes on. If it makes a noise its probably working. Check fuse in psu plug too.

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