Hi,
I left my computer on overnight yesterday, and this morning it had the scary text screen of death ("your computer has been shut down to prevent damage"). I should have made a note of the details, but instead just reset. The computer refused to startup - hard drive spun up, fans spinning away but no juice.
I've removed all the peripherals and cards save the graphics card, and tried a replacement power supply, but with no results. The problem must be with the video card, memory, motherboard or CPU, but how do I tell without finding spares and swapping them in and out? I don't have a speaker plugged into the motherboard, so any useful diagnostic beeps are going unheard.
It's a homebuilt system: Athlon XP2400+, Asus A7N8X, Radeon 9700, 2 GB of RAM.
Any suggestions gratefully received!
I left my computer on overnight yesterday, and this morning it had the scary text screen of death ("your computer has been shut down to prevent damage"). I should have made a note of the details, but instead just reset. The computer refused to startup - hard drive spun up, fans spinning away but no juice.
I've removed all the peripherals and cards save the graphics card, and tried a replacement power supply, but with no results. The problem must be with the video card, memory, motherboard or CPU, but how do I tell without finding spares and swapping them in and out? I don't have a speaker plugged into the motherboard, so any useful diagnostic beeps are going unheard.
It's a homebuilt system: Athlon XP2400+, Asus A7N8X, Radeon 9700, 2 GB of RAM.
Any suggestions gratefully received!