On Tuesday, October 17, 2006 @ 8:36 AM, Steve Reilly wrote:
and the only card you have is video? did you try them all? any of the connectors you have on the mother board that have wires going to them from the power supply need to be checked as well.
I just have that one card and I cleaned and re-seated it. If the 4 diagnosis lights I discovered on the back of the computer don't tell me anything the next time it happens (assuming my cleaning the Video Card didn't fix it), then I'll start looking at some of the other options that have been suggested; i. e., check power supply, check all connections, check cmos battery, ...
Rikard Johnels
wrote: On Tuesday 17 October 2006 07:01, Greg Wallace wrote: Actually, I didn't, but I pulled the Video card out, vacuumed the slot, wiped the card connectors down with a rag, and re-inserted it.
sounds to me like you removed a pci card or recently installed one, and
didnt seat it properly.
take out all the cards, wipe down the connectors, and firmly re insert
them, that should do the trick?
Lots of cutted text:
I recently got a machine i had to fix for a customer. It had almost the same problem, but it was failing with "probable CPU problem" I proceded by removing everything but the cpu . Mem, cards disks. EVERYTHING. And proceded by adding one thing at the time. First ram, then graphics, then disks, then card by card. I found the NIC being the culprit. As soon as i inserted it the box died on me again.
I don't see any cards except the Video Card. Since I don't see a NIC card, I assume my Network is built-in. There is no card where I plug in my ethernet connector.
Do it step by step. And make sure you power down between the steps. Some errors doesnt show on reboot, only on cold boot.
Good luck.
-- /Rikard
Greg Wallace