I spent the best part os a day today taking an old pentium(ish) case, in pretty much AT form factor, and hacking it into an appropriate shape to take a full ATX mobo, with hardrives, power supply, and cd roms/rw's.
I did this to make use of the old hardware I have lying around, to try to make a 1ghz machine on the cheap, to replace a friends PII 350Mhz.
I know he hard drive was good, as was the RAM I used, through a selection of legacy graphics cards I know one of them was good (being the one I've put back into the rig I'm on now.), and I know the mouse and keyboard and power supply were good.
What I'm not sure about is the Asrock K7VT2 mobo (which worked on last use but has been handled a fair bit since), and the AMD Duron 1Ghz which was fine on last use, but has been rattleing around in a draw full of papers and associated stuff for the last 6 months.
On booting the machine, the CPU Fan spins, and you can hear the HDD spin up and read, but then all is quiet except for the CPU fan which continues to run. There is no Beep from the system speaker (though I don't know for sure that the system speaker is good, but it's a fair bet it is), and most importantly, the monitor is not switched on from standby at all. there's not a trace of graphics being produced from either the AGP or PCI slots (depending on card used)
I'm doing it on the cheap because I'm completely skint atm, and so I'm hoping with this thorough explanation that someone might be able to tell me which piece of hardware is the one that needs replacing, or what may otherwise be wrong.
I did this to make use of the old hardware I have lying around, to try to make a 1ghz machine on the cheap, to replace a friends PII 350Mhz.
I know he hard drive was good, as was the RAM I used, through a selection of legacy graphics cards I know one of them was good (being the one I've put back into the rig I'm on now.), and I know the mouse and keyboard and power supply were good.
What I'm not sure about is the Asrock K7VT2 mobo (which worked on last use but has been handled a fair bit since), and the AMD Duron 1Ghz which was fine on last use, but has been rattleing around in a draw full of papers and associated stuff for the last 6 months.
On booting the machine, the CPU Fan spins, and you can hear the HDD spin up and read, but then all is quiet except for the CPU fan which continues to run. There is no Beep from the system speaker (though I don't know for sure that the system speaker is good, but it's a fair bet it is), and most importantly, the monitor is not switched on from standby at all. there's not a trace of graphics being produced from either the AGP or PCI slots (depending on card used)
I'm doing it on the cheap because I'm completely skint atm, and so I'm hoping with this thorough explanation that someone might be able to tell me which piece of hardware is the one that needs replacing, or what may otherwise be wrong.