Hi,
My system just completely died and I think it was caused by the video card, but any other advice would be helpful. My specs are:
AMD Athlon XP 2000 Processor
Lex BN790E Motherboard
Creative Blaster 4 Ti 4200 Graphics Card
20GB Master Harddrive
40GB Slave Harddrive
300W PSU
I installed the video card, processor and motherboard 5 months ago. About 1 month later I started hearing some rather strange noises coming from the PC, but couldn't work out what it was. I thought the bearings had gone in my CPU fan, so replaced that and the noises stopped. Recently my PC started locking up, freezing and sometimes re-booting. On checking found out that my graphics card fan wasn't spinning. I gave it a tap and it started and the noises started too, so I determined that when the noises had stopped, about 4 months previously, so had my graphics card fan and I'd been running the PC without it. Anyway, I took the fan out and cleaned the dust off it and re-installed it. The PC booted up fine, but while I was trying to upgrade to Windows XP it shutdown and now won't power up at all. The initial green light on the case comes on, but when you press the power button it shuts off completley.
I think the graphics card must be dead anyway, but even with it reomoved the PC still won't power up. Could it have caused a short circuit in the motherboard maybe?
thanks,
Matt
My system just completely died and I think it was caused by the video card, but any other advice would be helpful. My specs are:
AMD Athlon XP 2000 Processor
Lex BN790E Motherboard
Creative Blaster 4 Ti 4200 Graphics Card
20GB Master Harddrive
40GB Slave Harddrive
300W PSU
I installed the video card, processor and motherboard 5 months ago. About 1 month later I started hearing some rather strange noises coming from the PC, but couldn't work out what it was. I thought the bearings had gone in my CPU fan, so replaced that and the noises stopped. Recently my PC started locking up, freezing and sometimes re-booting. On checking found out that my graphics card fan wasn't spinning. I gave it a tap and it started and the noises started too, so I determined that when the noises had stopped, about 4 months previously, so had my graphics card fan and I'd been running the PC without it. Anyway, I took the fan out and cleaned the dust off it and re-installed it. The PC booted up fine, but while I was trying to upgrade to Windows XP it shutdown and now won't power up at all. The initial green light on the case comes on, but when you press the power button it shuts off completley.
I think the graphics card must be dead anyway, but even with it reomoved the PC still won't power up. Could it have caused a short circuit in the motherboard maybe?
thanks,
Matt