a computer can hang before getting to the bios because it is having trouble detecting a harddrive but 9 times out of 10 computers just give up and assume there is no drive and eventually go to the bios even after a 30 second timeout wait for the drive to become available. sure all you can do is press a button to retry or go into the bios and look around.but fundamentally, it works.įreezing or becoming non-resposive IN the bios is a dead giveaway. the CPU needs to do the commands of the BIOS to actually boot.īut all 3? sure it complains there is no boot device. Slap some ram in a board and power it up?. the BIOS needs RAM to load the boot routine into. Take a board out of it's packaging, slap a CPU in it and power it up?.won't work.
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If those don't help,I would nevertheless check the harddrive in another pc for errors to at least role that out as a problem.Ĭomputers only need 3 things to boot at all. Switching the power supply shouldn't be very hard either, if you have a spare lying around. Reseating the ram and even the cpu is something that can be done without much problem. Maybe the mobo isn't freezing but the keyboard is simply becoming unresponsive? Could the bios clock being displayed give an indication if the mobo is still running? Isn't that displaying the actual time, updated every second? The mobo might be to old to be able to boot from usb, and maybe there is no dvd drive in the system? In such a case, you might need another ide harddisk to see how it boots from that or you need an ide optical drive you can connect so that you have another possible boot device. In such a case, the harddisk is the major suspect, but the freezes in bios make us believe something different. I assume the system was seen in working condition before it was sold, which means we might need to search for something that is caused by the transportation of the system. While basically, everything written here is correct, it would be a strange coincidence that the supply becomes bad or the capacitors become bad enough to make the mobo fail just after the system changed owner and got transported. they are getting pretty old if they haven't started leaking already. any of the green capacitors around the CPU should be replaced. check the capacitors for any with bulging tops. the stuff it comes with is junk.īarring those items, or replacing them with known good parts, the board is at fault. you should be removing the CPU cooler and removing the stupid thermal interface material they come with and replacing it with some good heatsink grease anyway. if they've been overheated they can get flaky random things happening. it's a pretty paltry celeron nothing special. the stock "ITX" power supplies inside the machines are junk and really need to be replaced with something better.įailing those things, you can remove and reinsert the CPU.switch it with another if you have one that will work in there. just plug in and test it and see if it boots to the bios and works okay. Reseating the RAM.take the stick out.maybe blow out the contacts and reinsert. you can safely ignore every other component like monitor harddrive io board. The computer is being random (as it seems) but freezing in the bios means board issue, CPU, RAM, or power supply.
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