Why Won’t My Computer Start Correctly?
| December 30, 2009 | Posted by HTBP under How to Bypass |
A little background first; Apparently while I was sleeping some people got on my computer and were checking emails, etc when it just shut itself off.
They turned it back on and they were told the computer had been placed into safe mode. They hit F1 to bypass it and to just get back to normal windows. I guess this happened a couple times.
I got on this morning and turned on my computer and while the power and fans came on, there were no beeps (the POST or whatever). Also my monitor stayed black. I later learned of the fact that it turned itself off and immediately assumed that it must have overheated, (had it shut itself off on me I would have immediately opened it up).
Anyway I opened it up and lo and behold it had a lot of dust in the case. I figure that it overheated the motherboard, (since there were no POST beeps) but I'm not sure. Is there anyway that I can definitively figure out what is wrong here?
30 minutes ago - 3 days left to answer.
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23 minutes ago
I might have been a little unclear, the power comes on, the fans come on, but the monitor stays black and there are no beeps when it turns on. I know it isn't the monitor.
11 minutes ago
I get no post screen at all, completely blank, I have like 300G of memory and 2G ram, probably about half full on the hardrive. I'll check the smell thing right now.
8 minutes ago
I can't smell a burnt or dead smell, but I blew it out earlier with some dustoff so that might be why. It isn't hot at all yet the problem persists.
Possible that your onboard video went out. If you have a video card that might be the issue, its hard to determine what is wrong without actually diagnosing your computer. Check if any of the capacitors on the M/B blew out or are warped if so the board is bad. Let me know if you need more help.
Have you tried using a different monitor.