Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Question for the hardware gurus.

date posted 1st May 2005 00:17

Thanks for the reply. I've tried out several video cards and a new PSU. No
joy. I'm assuming its either the CPU or motherboard now. Or maybe even the
memory but when I lost a stick of memory in another computer it triggered
the usual bios beeps. If it was a video issue wouldn't that do the same?

Patrick.
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Patrick Ward
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-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Lecklider [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
Date: 30 April 2005 23:44
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] Question for the hardware gurus.


>
>zogthedoomed wrote:
>
>> Presumably if a PSU goes theres a good
>> chance its going to take some of the rest of the computer with it?
>
>Sounds like you've cooked two video cards. If a PSU goes, it goes BANG!
>or it just cuts out. Either way, it doesn't come back again - you
>certainly wouldn't get any drives to spin up.
>
>IME a cooked cideo card would explain all the symptoms, a dead PSU
wouldn't.
>
>-C
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