SpywareShooter
23 Oct 2005, 1:12am
Today I picked up a neat little system at the dump, it was like the size of a laptop from a few years ago (not one of the ½ inch thick ones they have now) and was running WinME and had a 5GB Hard Drive, 633MHz Celeron procesor, and 64MB PC100 RAM. I brought it home, went to boot it up, and the only thing that turned on was the PSU. I started disconnecting everything, starting with the CD drive and floppy drive, when I noticed that the hard drive's power cable wasn't even plugged in! I plugged it in, hit the 'on' button again, and the hard drive booted up.
Then I connected my monitor, and the screen was blank, as if the computer was off. I rebooted, still blank. I've tried a bunch of times since I brought it home this afternoon, but nothing has helped. I also tried connecting another graphics card and using that, still a blank monitor.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this? I told my friend who is looking for parts for his family's computers that if I didn't get it fixed by tomorrow morning I'd give it to him, so it's either going to be a folding machine or it's going to a 10 year old.
Then I connected my monitor, and the screen was blank, as if the computer was off. I rebooted, still blank. I've tried a bunch of times since I brought it home this afternoon, but nothing has helped. I also tried connecting another graphics card and using that, still a blank monitor.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to fix this? I told my friend who is looking for parts for his family's computers that if I didn't get it fixed by tomorrow morning I'd give it to him, so it's either going to be a folding machine or it's going to a 10 year old.