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by gattison

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My sons PC which was working fine, has stopped completely since it was removed across his room.
Everything is securely plugged in and there is power at the wall outlet feeding his surge protetion power strip (which is functioning correctly). Why, all of a sudden it's not booting is a mystery to me. My son mentioned that it may be overheating but, I can't get into BIOS to check the operating temps. Since he hasn't ever changed the BIOS button cell battery, I was wondering if that might be the problem. Before I open the PC case up, I'd like to know what else to look for. Yes all the fans are working and there are no cables interfering with the CPU fan or any other for that matter.

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by david.wallis

the bios battery wont stop the pc from posting you can take it out and it would still work :)

i would take the side off and make sure all cards and memory are properly in the slots, push down on them to make sure they havnt popped out.

One last thing make sure the switch on the back of the pc (psu) is turned on if you have one :) may sounds stupid but youd be surprised how many people have that problem!

oops you mentioned the fans were spinning so obviously the switch is on :)

by gattison

I didn't think of checking to make sure the cards and memory were well seated. Will give that a try although, the PC wasn't jostled in the short move (4 meters), it still may have happened. If this is the problem, I'll let you know. Thanks again for you help, it's really appreciated.

Regards,
George

by older mycroft

Both of which are detrimental to the efficient flow of electricity, particularly if the dust/fluff has got into little nooks and crannies (whatever they are - my granny never confirmed the details). :)

by saiello

Here's one to try. I purchased a couple of year old motherboard second hand for my own PC, but it wouldn't boot. I tried EVERYTHING that I, and anyone else could think of, bad memory, short circuit, bad ground, faltering power supply, etc, etc. I put my Sherlock Holmes hat on, worked logically and by a process of elimination over a couple of days, determined it HAD to be a problem with the BIOS. I was downhearted, knowing that a new BIOS chip wasn't going to be cheap. I thought 'What the hell..' and as a last ditch attempt physically removed the BIOS chip, cleaned the contacts with a bit of wet and dry, and.. hey presto, the computer burst into life..! It was simply down to a 'dry' contact.. ;o)

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