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Is my motherboard faulty?

Feb 10, 2015 7:01PM PST

Hello,
i had problem since yesterday, my computer is windows xp desktop pc, which is old one of 10 years ago...
last month it got a problem of HDD crashed and i change the new hard drive... but since yesterday when i start the power button the cpu running but the monitor shows nothing... shows only "no signal"... so i thought monitor is good also check the cables etc all are good....and also try with another monitor but it also shows 'no signal check your vga cable' so i try to change the vga card which is connected externally in pci slot... but still dont get signal, the cpu fan running powersupply fan running, but if i connect speaker in the motherboard no sound.... no response from mother board... whether it is problem with mother board?or something else?
help me please... i am frustating...
Thanks in advance

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I had an issue like that
Feb 12, 2015 2:31AM PST

and I thought it was a motherboard and i figured at least 300 but it turn out to me a memory chip according to the laptop store. Well I came to find out by accident that the laptop is almost 10 years old and the battery is completely dead. So now I leave the PC on all the time and i discovered by accident that if the power goes off the laptop won't turn on. What is do is remove one of the 2 sticks of ram and boot the laptop and it will boot fine. I then shut it down and put the memory stack back in and the machine boots with the memory available.

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download a linux distro
Feb 10, 2015 8:00PM PST
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If the monitor doesn't get a signal ...
Feb 10, 2015 8:07PM PST

(not even the BIOS showing) it's unlikely you'll see anything of Linux.

After 10 years, it might be time for another PC.

Kees

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I'm finding folk and techs forget the basics.
Feb 10, 2015 10:53PM PST

Just last month I pulled out my Volt meter (for some reason you can't share with them "change the battery" anymore) to show the onboard BIOS battery was too low. This varies with the battery but my rule of thumb for the common CR2032 is anything under 3 Volts is gone. Motherboards can sit there, do nothing to other effects so you can't be sure.

Just a reminder of a basic item.
Bob

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a computer this old
Feb 11, 2015 11:48AM PST
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Ever since I first booted up
Feb 11, 2015 11:56AM PST

Ever since I first booted up my computer, it's was freezing up quite a bit. By freezing I mean the screen freezes on whatever is open at the time. My perephrials stop working as the screen is frozen. My computer itself continues working like normal. All fans and lights act fine. There is nothing I can do other than hold the power button down to turn it off. After getting a new stick of RAM, it ran fine for about 9 days straight of everyday use (7+ hours every day). However, today, I accidently kicked the case and it froze again. I know its not a big deal as it was only a one time thing, but if anyone has any insight on something like that, I'd appreciate a reply on why something like that would happen.

Maybe it could be the hard drive? The area I kicked it was directly against the hard drive so my guess is that.
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