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I found a old IBM computer and big monitor next to my trash!!! The monitor powers up but the PC just has a little noise coming from it. i hope it powers up eventually. They are so cool!!!
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"Stupid can opener! You killed my father, and now you've come back for me!"
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"Stupid can opener! You killed my father, and now you've come back for me!"
MugenFox wrote:I opened it and all I know for now is this:
1) It has no RAM
2) It does not power on
3) It has an IBM 20.4GB hard drive
The monitor works perfectly and I tried unplugging the display (blue) cable and it said no signal to receive so it works perfectly.
Is the PC's problem the RAM?
If there is absolutely no power going onto it (assuming the switch for the PSU is in the on position and that everything is hooked up properly), then, the computer should still "start." You won't get to the BIOS and there may be some beeps coming from the computer. If there's no RAM, it will fail the POST, but it should still turn on and get power.
Sane here but on my dads pc, sometimes even if you got the right type of ram for it sometimes the motherboard does not like it for some strange reason or one stick of ram intefears with the other stick of ram, i have experienced this on my server.
hypr wrote:its always so awesome finding comptuers on the curb and wondering if they will power up, hehe I still can't believe someone tossed it away though.
Think how I felt when somebody gave me a PC with 2GB RAM and a 2.5GHz Dual Core Processor, after a bit of messing around I got it booting XP Pro SP3.
hypr wrote:its always so awesome finding comptuers on the curb and wondering if they will power up, hehe I still can't believe someone tossed it away though.
Think how I felt when somebody gave me a PC with 2GB RAM and a 2.5GHz Dual Core Processor, after a bit of messing around I got it booting XP Pro SP3.
That's sooo funny. People say "It's not working anymore"
and suddenly, you just see it's a BSOD hahahah, and you insert your Windows DVD and when it's done you show it to the one who gave it to you who will say <OMG, tech support said the problem was unsolvable. You're quite a genius!.> Hahah, I love that. Has happened some times
xD
That's sooo funny. People say "It's not working anymore"
and suddenly, you just see it's a BSOD hahahah, and you insert your Windows DVD and when it's done you show it to the one who gave it to you who will say <OMG, tech support said the problem was unsolvable. You're quite a genius!.> Hahah, I love that. Has happened some times
xD
Well this PC was no longer used, it was off someone my Mum works with, and he had a new one. It had no hard drive, and the ram had been removed from the slots and put in static bags. I put a hard drive from a Pentium III PC I had (Didn't work and its too crappy for me to bother fixing). Once I put that in and obviously the RAM, it was still not working properly (No Mobo screen). I just plugged a molex into the Mobo and it booted to a BSOD. Which I knew would happen because the Windows on the HDD was from another PC. I just reinstalled XP and it worked fine.
hypr wrote:its always so awesome finding comptuers on the curb and wondering if they will power up, hehe I still can't believe someone tossed it away though.
Think how I felt when somebody gave me a PC with 2GB RAM and a 2.5GHz Dual Core Processor, after a bit of messing around I got it booting XP Pro SP3.
Someone gave me a Pentium D 3.4ghz PC with 1GB Ram and a 7600gs video card because he thought the cpu was burned, it was just the PSU and after I replaced it, the pc worked fine
MugenFox wrote:SCREW WHAT I SAID!!
IT WORKS WITH 98!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm reinstalling it my way right now.
I will try Neptune.
See, EVERYTHING is fixable if you try hard enough.
MugenFox wrote:SCREW WHAT I SAID!!
IT WORKS WITH 98!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm reinstalling it my way right now.
I will try Neptune.
