Recent content by base836ball

yea i exhausted all of your options but with no prevail....im just gonna put it in my closest till i get time to take it in..thanks anyways for all the suggestions cheers

yea i noticed that when i turn it on the fan doesnt move at all, so i had an extra one and same thing, wouldnt budge. the fan shoudl turn on instantly right?

yea, i guess i would just toss it but i know the chip and mobo are good and the memory is new.....im stumped....maybe i will take it in somewhere

i cant, i turn the power button on and after 5 seconds it turns off, it doesnt even get to the start up screen where it runs the POST and what not... I have changed almost every component...im throwing it away lol

I have a HP ze4420us with an AMD chip. The problem is that when i turn it on it only stays on for 5 seconds (exactly) then turns itself off. Every now and then it will go to the screen where it says press F2 for setup or ESC to change boot order, but after that it wont stay on long enough. I...

Im gonna side with Anti-Trend cause Im guessing you have at least one floppy drive and a cd rom of some sort and a hard drive, the mobo, and a processor that is 2.4 Ghz. I just don't think 300W would last very long. Since you said several years it has been running, Im already a little shocked...

So how do I modify or rewrite the boot sector?

Yea my main idea was to clear the BIOS but I cant find it. There are no jumpers and the CMOS battery is connected to 2 little clips that will break it off. Unfortunately the video is built into the board. Looks like I am SOL on this one. I will just go buy a new motherboard unless someone can...

Yea thats what I had to do. It just baffles me thats all. I use the Windows XP format when I put the CD in. I am formatting using NTFS and NOT the quick option. Just annoying thats all.

Lets take for example that I have one copy of XP Pro Installed. Something screws up with it and I FORMAT the hard drive and put on XP Home. How come it now gives me the OS choice on startup. I thought a format deletes it all. So why would I be given the option of XP Pro still. And if I do choose...

Ok Im not sure what fan is the PSU one and what one is the CPU because there is only one fan which is connected to the heat sink. The power lights turn on when I start it along with the keyboard lights (caps, numlocks, etc.). I tried the memory thing but no luck. The only thing I can think of is...

I have everything out. The only thing in is the motherboard, the chip (P4 2.4) and the heatsink fan over top of it. And it only works when I have the chip unplugged. When the chip is in it shuts down. I have tried 3 different chips. The chip is the processor right?

I am so stumped. My moms friend gave me her Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop to fix. Reason to fix it was that it kept shutting off after about 5-10 seconds before the post. When I unplug the hard drive, cd rom, floppy, network card, it still did the same thing. I unplugged the processor and it stayed...