Vehementi
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Hello all,
Recently I flew with my computer down here to sunny San Diego for a week-long vacation.
Now the first thing it did when I hooked it all up and everything was connected was turn on, the fans and IDE drives spun up, but there wasn't a signal to the monitor. So, I turned it off and switched off the PSU switch for a few (like 10) seconds, then tried again. It worked fine. Then I tried to restart from within Windows some time later, and it did it again - no signal to the monitor.
Again, switching the power off then back on again seemed to fix it.
Then, another time I booted it up, it did it again, only a power on/off didn't help at all. So, I started getting scared, and checked to see that everything was alright inside my computer. It sure looked like it, so I plugged everything back in and tried to boot up again. It didn't work the first time, so I powered on then off, like I did the earlier times, and it worked fine again.
And so, for the past week, it's been doing this intermittently, not every time I booted up, but pretty close.
Then finally, this morning, it will not work at all. No matter what I do, I can never get a signal to the monitor. I reseated everything, except the CPU. Tried a barebones boot, nothing. Tried barebone booting even without the memory, same exact problem, so I don't think it's the memory. So, it could be the CPU, system board, or the video card. I don't think it's the video card (which was my primary suspect all along), because I tried another video card in it (actually the first video card I ever owned - Matrox G400 - I gave it to my dad who I'm staying with and he still has it). I have long warranties on the CPU and the system board, and they're both new anyway. It sounds like it's my system board, which wouldn't be a problem since I could just RMA it, the biggest hassle would be to take off my heatsink (Thermalright SP94 :dead: ), the same for my CPU. If it was my video card, I'll just buy a new one, no big deal, probably an FX5600XT for $120.
The system board is an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, the CPU a Pentium 4 2.6C (800MHz FSB, HT), and the video card is a (aging) Gigabyte Maya AP64D (Radeon 8500LE). Also, the PSU is a 350W Enermax.
This didn't start happening until I flew on the airplane. I'm sure there was some undue stress on it at times, could have been enough to mess up something. I was mainly wondering if anyone's had this problem before, and of course how to fix it.
Thanks in advance and also for reading this far
Recently I flew with my computer down here to sunny San Diego for a week-long vacation.
Now the first thing it did when I hooked it all up and everything was connected was turn on, the fans and IDE drives spun up, but there wasn't a signal to the monitor. So, I turned it off and switched off the PSU switch for a few (like 10) seconds, then tried again. It worked fine. Then I tried to restart from within Windows some time later, and it did it again - no signal to the monitor.
Again, switching the power off then back on again seemed to fix it.
Then, another time I booted it up, it did it again, only a power on/off didn't help at all. So, I started getting scared, and checked to see that everything was alright inside my computer. It sure looked like it, so I plugged everything back in and tried to boot up again. It didn't work the first time, so I powered on then off, like I did the earlier times, and it worked fine again.
And so, for the past week, it's been doing this intermittently, not every time I booted up, but pretty close.
Then finally, this morning, it will not work at all. No matter what I do, I can never get a signal to the monitor. I reseated everything, except the CPU. Tried a barebones boot, nothing. Tried barebone booting even without the memory, same exact problem, so I don't think it's the memory. So, it could be the CPU, system board, or the video card. I don't think it's the video card (which was my primary suspect all along), because I tried another video card in it (actually the first video card I ever owned - Matrox G400 - I gave it to my dad who I'm staying with and he still has it). I have long warranties on the CPU and the system board, and they're both new anyway. It sounds like it's my system board, which wouldn't be a problem since I could just RMA it, the biggest hassle would be to take off my heatsink (Thermalright SP94 :dead: ), the same for my CPU. If it was my video card, I'll just buy a new one, no big deal, probably an FX5600XT for $120.
The system board is an ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, the CPU a Pentium 4 2.6C (800MHz FSB, HT), and the video card is a (aging) Gigabyte Maya AP64D (Radeon 8500LE). Also, the PSU is a 350W Enermax.
This didn't start happening until I flew on the airplane. I'm sure there was some undue stress on it at times, could have been enough to mess up something. I was mainly wondering if anyone's had this problem before, and of course how to fix it.
Thanks in advance and also for reading this far