Morning wrath techys, a few moment of your time if you would be so kind.

My Dell desktop (just over 3 years old) appears to be having problems.

I went to turn it on last night and it went through what sounded like the normal noises but no signal was sent to the monitor.

The power remains on and there's the usual faint background fan noise but no output whatsoever. The monitor is fine, it is displaying a message saying it is not receiving a signal.

If anyone has any ideas or theories I'd be very grateful. Inspiron 560, Windows 7 if that helps.

Posted By: samcd84 on February 5th 2013 at 09:10:57

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Morning wrath techys, a few moment of your time if you would be so kind. (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 09:10:57
- take the power lead out (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 5, 12:53:01
  - What's the PSU Karn? (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 13:15:37
    - Power Supply Unit. It's the bit of the PC that you plug the kettle-lead into. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Feb 5, 13:55:14
      - kettle lead, proper idiot-proof, cheers AB (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 13:59:30
        
        sorry Sam, only just seen this (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 5, 18:45:10
- I've got a 10 year old Dell desktop that has always been fine so (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 5, 11:04:47
  - ha, my 2007 ish desktop is starting to behave like this (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:06:58
- I used to have this with an old stack. Here's how I'd get it going (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 10:55:45
  - Partition magic intut? (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Feb 5, 11:01:10
  - much obliged, lots to try (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 10:59:35
    - I didn't realise it was a newish one. Something in the start up that's failing then (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:03:24
      - If by any chance you have a big external hdd plugged in. That would be good to hear (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:05:34
        
        I removed all USB's last night and tried starting it up with only... (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 11:08:40
        
        When you do get it going. Maybe put it into 'sleep' mode instead of shutdown (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:11:04
        
        this parted magic disc? (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 11:10:03
        
        Yeah (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:20:35
        
        This is what it looks like when loaded up (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:24:16
        
        How can it boot from RAM ? The RAM is empty until it boots. (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Feb 5, 11:33:43
        
        Dunno, just thought it did (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:35:54
        
        ... (General Chat) - pants, Feb 5, 11:36:14
- Did it do any beeps on boot up? (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Feb 5, 10:07:33
  - Forgot to attach link (General Chat) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Feb 5, 10:07:58
- Ah, when this happened to me (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Feb 5, 09:41:00
  - i did the same, didn't work for me either (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 09:41:33
- check the lead. (n/m) (General Chat) - Pixelman, Feb 5, 09:37:19
  - monitor lead? (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 09:37:35
    - yes... or should I say cable. It is (General Chat) - Pixelman, Feb 5, 09:39:44
- Almost certainly the processor. (General Chat) - lurd, Feb 5, 09:30:43
  - Really? Processors pretty much never go wrong (General Chat) - scruffy, Feb 5, 09:53:35
    - yeah cant see it being processor either. (General Chat) - doncoop, Feb 5, 10:06:54
      - Every time I've had this failure it's been the CPU though it may well not be. (General Chat) - lurd, Feb 5, 10:12:58
        
        The thing is that most (all?) modern CPUs have an automatic shut off (General Chat) - scruffy, Feb 5, 10:35:38
        
        Replaced the whole motherboard iirc. (n/m) (General Chat) - lurd, Feb 5, 11:21:56
  - I'm not but cheers, may be home sometime in next couple of weeks (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 09:37:21
- My dad had similar and it was his graphics card (General Chat) - Ben, Feb 5, 09:28:03
  - a couple of people have mentioned graphics card, i haven't modified the unit at all (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 09:36:25
    - Laptops either have on board gfx this means the chip (General Chat) - eddie, Feb 5, 10:17:58
      - it's a desktop, cheers for your help (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 10:22:45
        
        Ok same goes for desktop (n/m) (General Chat) - eddie, Feb 5, 11:09:24
- things to try.... (General Chat) - doncoop, Feb 5, 09:18:12
  - Only other monitor option is trying HDMI to tv which I'll do tonight (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 09:22:21
- Sounds tine for a new one if it has a separate gfx card could be tgat (General Chat) - eddie, Feb 5, 09:17:39
- yes, I've had this before on a Dell....I fixed it... (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 5, 09:15:05
  - my particular smell hasnt helped (n/m) (General Chat) - samcd84, Feb 5, 09:16:14
    - eat pickled eggs and red cabbae, then try again. HTH xx (n/m) (General Chat) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 5, 09:32:13

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