Computer help. Is it dead?

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

I have an old computer that crapped out on me and I was kinda wanting to see if I could get it going again to use as a spare.

Little history on what happend to it.

We had a snow storm blow through one day and that evening I was surfing and the lelectricity surged several times. I turned off the computer and waited a while. When I tried to turn it on again, it acted like it was going to start then go to a promp screen. I couldnt type anything. Well I shut it down and tried again several times. Then it stopped doing anything. I yanked the power supply and took it to the local BB and they tested it and sure enough, it was bad. I bought a new one and put it in. The hard drive light comes on for about 15 seconds, the fan on the processor comes on, the lights on the two disc drives flash. But the floppy drive doesn't flash and the monitor will not kick on. There is also no "beep" from the motherboard.

Think the MB is dead? What else could I check? but like I said, it will not even turn the monitor on.

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[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Alright D**m it TTT //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Does the tiny speaker attached to the PC work? If it does, your motherboard is fried. I had it happen to one of my old ones. If the tiny speaker doesn't work, attach one that does, and make sure your video card is working.

What kind of PC is it?

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

E-machine and the "little speaker" is not beeping

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Pull off the little speaker, and attach a 9volt to it, and see if it makes a noise. Like I said, no beep and a working speaker = fried motherboard. What chipset is it?

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Chip set = I dont know. I am pretty good with computers until it comes to the hardware.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Just saying, I have a pentium 2 motherboard that I'm not using. I could try and power it up and see if it's even going to play if you wanted it. ATX form factor. It's one of the rare ones with AGP, PCI, and ISA slots. No point though unless I knew what chipset you have.

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Thanks!! how do I know what chipset it is????

I got pics of the mother board if that would help.

 

[Raven 10+ year member]

Well, basically just tell me what processor it has. Be it Pentium, Pentium 2, AMD k6, Athlon, P3, P4, etc. Also is the power button a physical switch with 4 large wires running through it (AT), or just a simple button (ATX)?

 

[Goldenknob 10+ year member]

an emachine.. so it's a celeron right?.. AT board.. probably.. I'd start troubleshooting.. unhooking everything unessary for it to run and see if you get any results.. try resetting the CMOS too..

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

an emachine.. so it's a celeron right?.. AT board.. probably.. I'd start troubleshooting.. unhooking everything unessary for it to run and see if you get any results.. try resetting the CMOS too..

I unhooked everything as you said and no change. It will not even tun my monitor on. Here are the specs for my puter off the Emachines web site:

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition

AMD Athlon™ XP 2400+ Processor (2.00 GHz) with QuantiSpeed™ architecture

VIA KM 266

256 MB DDR (PC 2100)

80 GB HDD 1

48x Max. CD-RW Drive, 16x Max. DVD Drive, 3.5" 1.44MB FDD

S3 ProSavage8™ integrated (1 AGP slot available)

10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Seems like so much work, just buy a new Alienware... http://www.alienware.com

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Seems like so much work, just buy a new Alienware... http://www.alienware.com

I would love to but im poor //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crying.gif.ec0ebefe590df0251476573bc49e46d8.gif

besides, I just like to tinker with stuff.

 

[cjjackson85 5,000+ posts]

Here's a cheap one... http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_ALX/alx_features.aspx?SysCode=PC-AURORALX-SLI-D&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT

Starts at $4,000... what a steal!

 

[Rattlebrain 10+ year member]

Here's a cheap one... http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_ALX/alx_features.aspx?SysCode=PC-AURORALX-SLI-D&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT
Starts at $4,000... what a steal!

Holy crap!! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif