Is it dead ?

[Abarbarian]

A friends pc stopped working so I took a look at it.

It would fire up and then die after a few seconds.

Popped in a new coms battery.
Used my psu.
Used a stick of my memory.
Took out gfx card and ran onboard gfx.

It would fire up and die after a few seconds.

Took out all ram ..... and it would fire up and keep running. Of course nothing on the screen but at least it did not switch of.

Have I got a mobo with faulty ram sockets ??

Any ideas folks.

 

[EvanDavis]

Have I got a mobo with faulty ram sockets ??

if it keeps running when you remove the RAM, I would go for it been faulty RAM modules

 

[muckshifter]

replace the motherboard

 

[floppybootstomp]

Have you tried one stick of ram on it's own?

Most likely motherboard, as Mr Mucks said.

 

[Abarbarian]

Tried one stick still dead.

Looks like a new mobo needed.

Ta folks.

 

[TriplexDread]

You can buy a POST test board if you wanna check

Computer needs a parallel port though. Probs a bit restricted compared to professional hardware aswell

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PC-PCI-Mother...ting_DesktopComponents_RL&hash=item19c5be6f5a

 

[Abarbarian]

Ta TD might just give that a go as it is only a fiver.