Have always assumed this to be a motherboard problem

If the hard drive was failing, it would tell you

My experience of old pc's not 'posting' with noises or monitor lights changing, usually is to keep trying

Although when you do eventually get it going, it's going to show you the safe mode options cos you've turned it off and on so much

Maybe try and power it up with nothing but the power lead plugged in. See if you can hear the machine booting

Unplug any usbs too, so on power up the machine has nothing to scan from the usb's and only thinks about posting from the HDD

Posted By: pants on February 27th 2012 at 17:53:07

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PC help please... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:44:53
- seen this loads of times Lee (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:13:24
  - Really? I'll give that a go in a bit then... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:20:53
    - yep, really - power out, power on, power back in, power on (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:29:25
      - Nah, didn't work... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:31:04
        
        Could press and hold the power button for a minute or so (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:39:30
        
        Did you keep the power pressed in until the fan stopped turning? (n/m) (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:37:43
        
        At what stage? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:46:19
        
        Fan wouldn't be turning when I press for 20 secs, no? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:46:48
        
        Fan will turn until power is gone completely (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:50:56
  - I forgot about doing that. Think I used to do that on an old white pc (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:15:29
    - I first heard about it from some Indian guy at Dell when I was working for the NHS (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:19:27
      - I'd think normally that 3-4 years isn't that old for a pc, but I do find with modern usb (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:28:10
        
        Unsure about the links thing. You mean links in my message body? (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:29:02
        
        ROLF (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:37:13
        
        It's usually small that does this (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:42:05
        
        chairs (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:44:12
- And I've taken one monitor out of the graphics card slot, and plugged into onboard (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:47:57
  - You had a monitor in the graaphics slot??? Jeez, I don't know a lot about computers but (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 27, 17:53:54
- Old pc? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:47:36
  - 3-4 years (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:48:15
    - Have always assumed this to be a motherboard problem (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:53:07
      - Also, you could turn it on and do something else for 10 minutes or so (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:55:20
        
        Yeah, left it on for a bit now. It's had symptoms... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:57:47
        
        Yeah, it's going to happen more often then (it's probably the motherboard slowly failing) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:06:50

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