PC help needed

[kirisute]

Sounds like you certainly have something a bit more terrible going on there than just a dodgy connection bud!

Final test would be to try boot up with no ram....if you get constant beeping then CPU is functioning as your getting past CPU boot and onto post memory check.

If you don't get constant beeping its either mobo or CPU damage.

You have old socket board and old socket CPU...at today's prices you might as well splash out and invest on modern tech. 1155 mobo, i range CPU and ddr3 ram....should cost more than £180-£250 depending in your chosen CPU (i3 or i5)

Edited June 15, 2013 by kirisute

[chesters1]

If you get one beep it means its booting ,if theres nothing on the screen then its probably video related ,how many outputs does your pc have ,some have inbuilt vid and a vid card in a slot the bios maybe using the other one?

Is the hard drive light blinking? It could be running as it should but video less ?

Check though the memory is pressed in their slots firmly if one end isnt fully in it gives similar results but check very carefully the pins on the video lead

If one pin gets pushed in or bent it gives similar symptoms

Edited June 15, 2013 by chesters1

[Sportsman]

Thanks again guys

Kiri, I tried booting with no RAM and I get a succession of beeps in bursts of three.

My video card has VGA and DVI output. I normally run a two screens, one from each.

At the moment I have a single screen connected to the onboard VGA connection.

When the PC is running I switched the screen off and back on. The Acer symbol comes up, followed by "no signal"

 

I am feeling that it may end up in the sick computers hospital.

[Sportsman]

IT'S ALIVE

 

I took the video card out, cleaned everything out again and for no apparent reason swapped the screen connections over.

It worked but I don't know why.

Just to see I swapped them back to how they were and it doesn't work.

Swapped them back and both screens work again

 

Oh well, thanks again everyone who replied.

[Samuel Stafrace]

You may have a broken VGA/HDMI cable! Buy a new one and if that does not work your monitor could be broke

[Andy_1984]

You may have a broken VGA/HDMI cable! Buy a new one and if that does not work your monitor could be broke

 

Nope, just the order of the screens priority got messed up. It's a pain in the arse but rarely happens.

[kirisute]

ive seen it with dvi connections in the past...some older monitors just don't provide the connectivity response to bring the card to life.

but it doesn't explain why the system didn't post correctly when you removed the video card and used the onboard!

[Sportsman]

Both screens are VGA so I use a converter on the DVI output

 

For years the screens have worked fine with screen A connected to output A and screen B connected to output B.

 

Now I have to connect screen A to output B and screen B to output A, otherwise neither of them work.

 

This changed when I fitted the new CPU cooler (which works really well by the way)

 

I have no idea why, it makes no sense.

[Andy_1984]

Get a copy of Ultramon if you can it will let you adjust so many things with dual monitors

[Phone]

Kiri,

 

Did you look at the URL in post #10

 

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