Culhwch
Lost Boy
So, computer problems. I'm hoping some of the brilliant minds here can give me a little guidance...
A couple of nights ago my wife's PC went to sleep, and it wouldn't wake up. No response at all - keyboard, mouse, power switch, reset switch, nothing. I ended up getting it to switch off by cutting the mains power. When I tried to switch it on again, the PC powered up, but nothing happens - it wouldn't even post. The only improvement was that the power switch does now switch the thing off.
Tonight I pulled everything - video card, hard drives, optical drives, RAM - one by one to see if it made a difference. No dice. Stripped it right back to the motherboard and processor, and it's still dead. I figure it's one or the other that's died. The only thing I haven't tried is the PSU - I'll swap that out this weekend, but I don't figure that's the problem.
So what I'm left with is trying to figure out which it is, the motherboard or the CPU. Anyone have any advice on which it might be, or how I could easily determine the problem? I could swap out out the processor into my machine, but I'm not too keen to do that. It might just be easier to buy a couple replacements. But I'm open to thoughts. I'm a rank amateur at this stuff, really...
A couple of nights ago my wife's PC went to sleep, and it wouldn't wake up. No response at all - keyboard, mouse, power switch, reset switch, nothing. I ended up getting it to switch off by cutting the mains power. When I tried to switch it on again, the PC powered up, but nothing happens - it wouldn't even post. The only improvement was that the power switch does now switch the thing off.
Tonight I pulled everything - video card, hard drives, optical drives, RAM - one by one to see if it made a difference. No dice. Stripped it right back to the motherboard and processor, and it's still dead. I figure it's one or the other that's died. The only thing I haven't tried is the PSU - I'll swap that out this weekend, but I don't figure that's the problem.
So what I'm left with is trying to figure out which it is, the motherboard or the CPU. Anyone have any advice on which it might be, or how I could easily determine the problem? I could swap out out the processor into my machine, but I'm not too keen to do that. It might just be easier to buy a couple replacements. But I'm open to thoughts. I'm a rank amateur at this stuff, really...