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Thank you for all those suggestions. But I did unplug and replug all
cables, cleaned and reseated the ram, video card, NIC card and modem.
Tried a different monitor, but there were no messages of any type on
that monitor either. It was still completely black. Finally I
consulted a friendly neighborhood tech at Fry's Electronics who
advised me to purchase a new motherboard. Reluctantly I did, and now
all is fine. What could have caused such a young motherboard to bit
the dust? Now for some reason my recently exchanged 200GB hard drive
is only reading 128GB??? What's next?! I have packed it back into
the box I received it in from Seagate only two weeks ago for yet
another exchange. For now, I will take some time to get to know my
New Intel iMAC while I work on getting that PC working smoothly again.
Regards,
Vanessa
On Jan 29, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Venkat Viswanathan wrote:
> Original post (clipped)
>
> <<<I've been using Win XP with AMD Sempron 2800+ processor, 512 MB
> RAM & =
> 200 GB
> harddrive sucessfully for the last year. Now all of a sudden when
> trying =
> to
> power up, nothing appears on monitor and computer shuts down after
> only 1=
> 5
> seconds>>>>
>
> Hi,
>
> there could be many,many reasons BUT on the other hand being only a
> year =
> old system we can possibly narrow it down.
>
> (1) check the cable connections between your hard drive and
> motherboard.
>
> (2)check/reseat the RAM sticks
>
> (3) when you unplugged the monitor, did you get a msg on the screen
> to th=
> e effect .."cable unplugged..."??
>
> (4) do you know whether you have "on board video" or a "seperate
> video ca=
> rd"??
>
> NOTE: all the above suggestions assume you are comfortable working
> inside=
> the system (you have changed the power supply...). IF NOT pl post
> back f=
> or further assistance.
>
> good luck---Venkat
>
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