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Thread #119801 Message #2601050
Posted By: Richard Bridge
31-Mar-09 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Computer is dead
Subject: RE: Tech: Computer is dead
Do you get a beep from the motherboard now, and if so what does the motherboard manual say that beep is telling you?
On and straight off in a split second sounds like memory, or motherboard. Can you drop the memory out and run memcheck or memtest in a different computer (or might be cheaper to buy and put in the minimum necessary compatible memory, since a computer shop will charge qute a lot to test memory because it takes a long time as memcheck has to access every bit)?
If you have an old PSU lying about it may be worth trying - so long as you are not running huge graphics cards etc and loads of optical drives/hard drives a little old PSU will probably not go bang (but if it does it will take a whole lot of architecture with it).
Much as I hate Vista it is hard to blame it as it sounds as if the machine is not getting to boot Vista!