Hey, my mom went to go on our computer this morning I was still sleeping... (had to be woken 
), anyways the computer wouldn't turn on so I looked to see if the PSU was turned on and wether the computer's power cable was plugged in on either side, I use a power bar. The power bar works because other electronics will turn on using it.
So I took out my computer un hooked all external hardware and opened it up, looking through it to see if there was any problems.. I saw nothing wrong all though 7-8 years of never being opened, dust was pretty bad.. I meen centimeters of it
. Then it occured to me to try a differen't power cable just incase for some reason the one I was using blew or something. So I went to my sister's house to get her computer's power cable, so I tried it the computer would stay on for 5 seconds before turning off using her's it was able to be turned on 3 times. Then it stopped turning on using it. Then I remembered that my monitor uses the same type of cable so I tried using the monitor's cable and it has been turning on using it.
The problem is I am not getting any output from the computer like I can use the cd drive it opens and closes when I press the open button but when its on, the monitor won't display anything(it's plugged in) I was able to find another power cable for my monitor, the monitor just stays in stand by mode when the computer is on or off. My usb mouse when it's plugged in, it isn't recieving any "stuff", same with any other external hardware.
One more thing I took out the ram disk when I was checking for problems in the computer, to show my mom what it looked like. I was having problems getting it back in, it wasn't snapping in easy I could always get one of the ends of the ram disk to lock in but the other wouldn't I finally got both ends in properly. Could this have anything to do with the lack of output? The screen won't display anything this includes some of the start up information that display's before it shows the ram loading, so I don't think the ram is the problem with the monitor.
Also internal hardware in the computer works like the fans and hard drive and the cd drive well not sure about the hard drive I am not sure what it sounds like but I know the cd drive works and the fans. Also right after opening it I dusted off the inside with an ordinary dusting cloth. It might have been a swiffer cloth(don't think so though).
If you need computer specs feel free to ask I'll look for some if anyone needs them but what I can tell you right now is it has:
40 GB HARD DRIVE
512 MB RAM
WINDOWS XP HOME SP2
1 CD RW DRIVE
1 FLOPPY DRIVE
6 USB PORTS
1 KEYBOARD PORT
1 MOUSE PORT
1 MONITOR PORT
AUDIO PORTS
AND ONE OLD PRINTER PORT I THINK IT IS IONO WHAT IT IS FOR.
I am not a computer nooby. I just deal more with software rather then hardware. My time is running out on this library computer.... So I need to finish up so also if I hadn't mentioned it fried two power cables and trust me their friend they won't work on other computers. The only difference between the cables that were fried and the cable that works is the color of the wire I meen the casing the fried ones are black and the one that's working is white.
I also can't afford and buy new hardware for the computer unless it is like under $20 so I really need to try to fix this myself. Parts of the mother board work fine cause one of the fans in the computer get's it's power from the mother board.
I may edit this later I got 2 min's till I get kicked off this comp.
[edit]Also when I turn on the computer it meeps three times(which it didn't do when it worked), there is one little speaker I found on the bottom of the computer on the inside so I unplugged it from the mother board and turned the computer on to see if it meeped again but it still did and I can't find this hidden speaker =\. No I do not have the external speakers plugged into the computer, when I do have the speakers plugged in and the computer is turned on the speakers make this wierd humming noise...[/edit]
Thank You!
Ask as many questions as needed.[/list]
), anyways the computer wouldn't turn on so I looked to see if the PSU was turned on and wether the computer's power cable was plugged in on either side, I use a power bar. The power bar works because other electronics will turn on using it.
So I took out my computer un hooked all external hardware and opened it up, looking through it to see if there was any problems.. I saw nothing wrong all though 7-8 years of never being opened, dust was pretty bad.. I meen centimeters of it
. Then it occured to me to try a differen't power cable just incase for some reason the one I was using blew or something. So I went to my sister's house to get her computer's power cable, so I tried it the computer would stay on for 5 seconds before turning off using her's it was able to be turned on 3 times. Then it stopped turning on using it. Then I remembered that my monitor uses the same type of cable so I tried using the monitor's cable and it has been turning on using it.
The problem is I am not getting any output from the computer like I can use the cd drive it opens and closes when I press the open button but when its on, the monitor won't display anything(it's plugged in) I was able to find another power cable for my monitor, the monitor just stays in stand by mode when the computer is on or off. My usb mouse when it's plugged in, it isn't recieving any "stuff", same with any other external hardware.
One more thing I took out the ram disk when I was checking for problems in the computer, to show my mom what it looked like. I was having problems getting it back in, it wasn't snapping in easy I could always get one of the ends of the ram disk to lock in but the other wouldn't I finally got both ends in properly. Could this have anything to do with the lack of output? The screen won't display anything this includes some of the start up information that display's before it shows the ram loading, so I don't think the ram is the problem with the monitor.
Also internal hardware in the computer works like the fans and hard drive and the cd drive well not sure about the hard drive I am not sure what it sounds like but I know the cd drive works and the fans. Also right after opening it I dusted off the inside with an ordinary dusting cloth. It might have been a swiffer cloth(don't think so though).
If you need computer specs feel free to ask I'll look for some if anyone needs them but what I can tell you right now is it has:
40 GB HARD DRIVE
512 MB RAM
WINDOWS XP HOME SP2
1 CD RW DRIVE
1 FLOPPY DRIVE
6 USB PORTS
1 KEYBOARD PORT
1 MOUSE PORT
1 MONITOR PORT
AUDIO PORTS
AND ONE OLD PRINTER PORT I THINK IT IS IONO WHAT IT IS FOR.
I am not a computer nooby. I just deal more with software rather then hardware. My time is running out on this library computer.... So I need to finish up so also if I hadn't mentioned it fried two power cables and trust me their friend they won't work on other computers. The only difference between the cables that were fried and the cable that works is the color of the wire I meen the casing the fried ones are black and the one that's working is white.
I also can't afford and buy new hardware for the computer unless it is like under $20 so I really need to try to fix this myself. Parts of the mother board work fine cause one of the fans in the computer get's it's power from the mother board.
I may edit this later I got 2 min's till I get kicked off this comp.
[edit]Also when I turn on the computer it meeps three times(which it didn't do when it worked), there is one little speaker I found on the bottom of the computer on the inside so I unplugged it from the mother board and turned the computer on to see if it meeped again but it still did and I can't find this hidden speaker =\. No I do not have the external speakers plugged into the computer, when I do have the speakers plugged in and the computer is turned on the speakers make this wierd humming noise...[/edit]
Thank You!
Ask as many questions as needed.[/list]
