Re: Computer fails to startup

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Malke schreef:
This most certainly is *not* a software problem. You've got failing hardware
because the system isn't even going through POST. Here are some general
hardware troubleshooting steps:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Troubleshooting

Thanks, but since I'm not able to boot from hard drive or cd-rom (and
there's no floppy, the computer is only 3 years old and has a cd and
dvd writer instead) I won't be able to use all this testing software.

Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out suspected parts with
known-good parts. If you can't do the testing yourself and/or are
uncomfortable opening your computer, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA).

We opened it up to look inside, but at first sight, we couldn't see
anything. (Did this once seven years ago with my own computer to notice
that the mother board was completely black with a hole inside ;-)) My
husband will try this week after his work to do some swapping out of
some parts to see if we can get the computer to work again, but I
suspect the motherboard the most of being the problem, and it's a bit
difficult to swap that one out :-).

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