Computer won't start-up, BIOS won't post, screen is black. Any ideas?

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Metario:
if it wont startup/post check the gpu
else it's dead, jimbo

Insert Name Here²:
Change the video plug from the graphics card, to the motherboard's rear IO and see if that fixes it.

If not, then take out all your ram sticks until you're left with one, and try it in every slot per ram stick to see if that fixes anything.

Reseat every single one of your components, plugs, cpu and all.

If none of this works, it's a PSU issue

TableSalt:

--- Quote from: Insert Name Here² on January 08, 2018, 12:15:12 AM ---If none of this works, it's a PSU issue

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huh ive never heard of that playstation

Goth77:
Sounds like the motherboard is fried. Many times, the power supply will be delivering power and the fans may run and the disk attempt to boot but if components of the main board are burned out, its usually forgeted

I had a slimline tower where the mainboard got so hot it started smoking. The ungodly scent! I was able to save the video card and processor, and the obsolete phone-line card in it - the mainboard was done for though and it had about all the symptoms you described here : fans running, hard drive appears to boot, but no display or even beep after post - I reset the jumpers and flashed the bios to be sure, but I knew it was cooked

You can probably salvage some if not all of the old parts from your PC, and buy a motherboard replacement for a whole lot less than an entirely new tower. If you have a spare tower laying around try swapping out parts on it to see what parts might still work!

Kearn:
sounds like either motherboard or CPU

pull the gpu out and try using the bare minimum RAM and see if it will post off the integrated graphics

it doubt its a PSU failure because a. i wouldnt expect it to try to boot in the first place and b. youre liable to have a knockon effect with a dead PSU frying other things down the line and itd probably be pretty obvious if the PSU died

if you have another motherboard or cpu with the same socket you can eliminate one or the other

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