Hi
I have a 4 years old eMachines T2341 with AMD Athalon. It has since last week, suddenly stopped working. When I turn on the power switch from the front, the front LED for the hard drives light up for a few seconds. The CPU fan starts up. RED LED on the MB lights up. Hard disk seems to be spinning. CD/DVD drives open and close. However, the monitor keeps saying No Signal. The PC had died a few months back as well, when I replaced it with a new 350watt PS.
Here are some of things I have tried so far:
1. connected the monitor and the cable with my laptop and the monitor works
2. tried taking out cd/dvd drives, mouse, keyboard connections, etc.
3. Tried swapping the RAMs one at a time
4. and lastly, thinking that the onboard video card is damaged, got a new PCI NVDIA card. Still no signal.
Here are the add-ons I have on the PC, that I am planning to strip out and give a try as well:
– 512 RAM
– Firewire card
– DVD RW drive
* What are the other things I can try?
* Do I have to disable the onboard display to be able to use the PCI card? If so, how to do that since the monitor is not working?
* Any other things, troubleshooting guide..?
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Thanks much!
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