Computer not starting / help needed

Dozy · Post by **Dozy** » November 27th, 2004, 1:47 pm

i built my bro a computer like 2 months ago n it has been workin perfectly.. till now.. i wasnt here when it happend but my bro told me that one day the computer just suddenly froze up while he was listenin 2 music.. he pressed the reset button.. and nuthin.. it just went black.. now everytime i try to turn it on all the fans start up, all the little various leds light up (power, network..), the cd drives do their start up dance and the hard drive does its start up sound.. but thats it.. it stops there.. screen stays in stand by mode and all i got is a computer with spinning fans.. ive checked all the cables and connections.. ive tried resetin the CMOS.. but nothing.. what can be wrong?? help!

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » November 27th, 2004, 3:52 pm

Check your videocard and cpu.. You might have fried the CPU

Nolano · Post by **Nolano** » November 27th, 2004, 5:18 pm

hmmm... yeah, sounds like a CPU thing.

Dozy · Post by **Dozy** » November 27th, 2004, 9:58 pm

but how could the cpu have gotten fried? the computer worked fine for 2 months.. and my bro wasnt exactly doing anythin cpu craving when it happend..

Quiet Chaos · Post by **Quiet Chaos** » December 4th, 2004, 7:33 pm

I'm having a similar problem. This happened to my computer and I had my friend fix it but now it's happened again and I'm stuck. He said all he did was fix some wires or something but I don't know anything about the interior of a computer and now he's off on a trip for his company. Is there something that could have come undone or been switched off inside or something? If so where exactly would I have to look to find what I'm looking for? Sorry for all the questions and none specific, but like I said I know very little about the inner workings of computer hardware. I only know what I'm doing while working with the computer while it's on.

edit: I forgot to mention that my friend is the one who built the computer and there are occasionally problems like this but most deal with crashes and such, nothing like this before.