Unresponsive machine (again!)

rsallinsonukrsallinsonuk Houston, Texas
edited September 2004 in Hardware
Well following a previous post entitled "the computer doed on me" the same thing happened! The computer was working fine then i restarted it and it wouldnt boot up. The same problem arises, push power, hard drive whirs a little , fans kick in, "no signal detected" on monitor, no power to keyboard, no boot up beeps or hard drive crackles. I opened up the case to blow out dust bunnies and this time after opening the case i noted a small blue piece of plastic on the bottom of the case approx 10 mm by 3 mm has metal contacts at one end inside plastic, there are similar pieces like this on the mother board, did not try to put back as had no idea where it was originally located!!!

Please help me, i am travelling to the UK for a week on saturday and would like to have the computer running for theother half so she can keep in contact with me when i am gone!

Computer info : HP Pavilion 716n Desktop (P4 - 2.4 GHZ - 512 DDR SDRam - 80 Gb HD - Integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 3 - 64MB Shared) ) Has not been expanded (Yet!)

Comments

  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    That's a jumper. Grab your motherboard manual and check all the jumper locations. Make sure they're set to default or whatever your configuration requires. I don't know how it could just fall off, but things happen.
  • rsallinsonukrsallinsonuk Houston, Texas
    edited September 2004
    Okay, a jumper, well at least we identified the bit, next thing, i didnt get a motherboard manual with the computer as far as i know but it is an MSI Motherboard and i have a print out of the specs of it. Where can i go to find a default set up blue print to have a look at where it might have come from??
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    http://www.msicomputer.com

    Find out the model of the motherboard and look there.

    Is it the HP listed in your sig? That may cause a little problem, as the motherboard may be tailored to HP's specifications. See if you can find a model number on the board.
  • rsallinsonukrsallinsonuk Houston, Texas
    edited September 2004
    I am actually in my office at work well away from my home computer but the details i have are as follows :
    Motherboard Supplier :MSI Mother Board
    System Bios Supplier : MSI /Award
    Form Factor : uATX
    Processor Brand : Intel
    Processor SOcket TypE : mPGA478
    Chipset name : 865 G
    Chipset "Northbridge" : 865G
    Chipset "Southbridge" : ICH 5
    Super I/O : SMSC
    Revision/ stepping : LPC47M192-NC

    Thats pretty much all the information i have to hand

    Is it any use at all?
  • rsallinsonukrsallinsonuk Houston, Texas
    edited September 2004
    Okay its a ASUS P4SD-LA with Integrated Graphics
    The link to the specs is below

    http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?product=326838&lang=en&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c00022505

    Hope this make some sense!
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Since it is a fairly modern mobo you may be in luck. Search away and see what you find. The original manual would be a good place to start.

    Open the box and look very carefully. You are looking for a set of metal pins sticking up that don't have anything on them. It wouldn't be uncommon for you to have three or four sets of these on the mobo.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    How do you get that he has an ASUS mobo when he says straight out it's an MSI? MSI has 3 865G chipset mobos:

    865G Neo2-PLS

    865GM2-LS

    865GVM2-LS

    WAIT I see it now, MY bad. OK someone is very confused here, either HP or rsall - where did you see that it's an MSI mobo, the hp support site says ASUS?
  • rsallinsonukrsallinsonuk Houston, Texas
    edited September 2004
    The MSI bit was on the motherboard sheet but it did say for HP/Compaq computers but i am pretty sure its an ASUS
  • rsallinsonukrsallinsonuk Houston, Texas
    edited September 2004
    There is alsorts of wires, and places where that little bit of blue plastic could go
    there are some of those little blue plastic things in some of the sockets! :)
    Could be from any of them!
  • rsallinsonukrsallinsonuk Houston, Texas
    edited September 2004
    Resolved!!
    We reseated all the connection put the jumper in its spot (once i spoke to hP) and its up and running!! :)

    Thanks guys for putting me on the right track!
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