The computer fails to start completely.
The computer fails to start completely.
My grandpa has an old late 2000's amd athlon computer. Apparently it has been broken for a while and refuses to show any post screen or any boot menu. The computer's fans still spin and the cd drives still open and close, but the hard drive is completely dead. I have tried replacing the cmos battery hoping it would do something (the old battery was completely dead) and it did nothing. I have not tried shorting out the battery terminals with a coin yet though. The computer does not show anything on a monitor, not even a command line. I have not tried the psu to see if it is supplying too much voltage, so i don't know if the motherboard is fried. I don't know the exact model of the cpu or motherboard, but I can probably check the motherboard tomorrow. Any help will be great because I currently have no idea what to do.
eventually rely on just one memory stick
check if you connected the battery properly with the plus sign clear
restarting the BIOS might also help
it came with only one ram stick and i already tried swapping slots and removing it altogether, but that didn’t help. Yes, i made sure the cmos battery was placed correctly and used the jumper pins to reset the bios, yet nothing changed. I also don’t think the cd drives are the problem since they’re completely empty, though i’ll try them just in case.
Oh yeah, and just a quick note—when this post comes up again, the main issue was with the power supply. It kept fluctuating between about 5 and 18 volts. After replacing it, the computer would work fine but then crash right away. I also experienced a blue screen once in Windows, which suggests the CPU, chipset, or GPU might have been damaged due to the high voltage.