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Troubleshooting old self-build

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  • 03-05-2015 1:36pm
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    inigo
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭


    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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    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    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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    inigo
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭inigo


    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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    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


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


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    inigo
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭inigo


    Nope


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    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


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


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    inigo
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭inigo


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


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    game4it70
    Registered Users Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭game4it70


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


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    inigo
    Registered Users Posts: 647 ✭✭✭inigo


    I'm afraid I tried that also...


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    Redfox25
    Registered Users Posts: 1,547 ✭✭✭Redfox25


    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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