Symptoms of a Bad Hard Drive?

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I went to sit down at my computer the other day and my knee accidently
bumped against the tower pretty hard (while the computer was on). The
video immidiately went blank. Since then when I power on the computer
there is no video signal and there are no start-up beeps. There is
power, the fans spin, etc. I tried replacing the video card and that
didn't solve my problem.

So my question is, could those symptoms be a sign of a bad hard drive?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Sam
 
Probably not by the sounds of it. You should be able
to 'Boot-up' a PC without a hard-drive, and it will just
sit there saying No System Disk.
If your getting power(fans) but no beeps or display,
sounds like the motherboard/Cpu is at fault.
Anything loose in there ?
 
Sam said:
I went to sit down at my computer the other day and my knee accidently
bumped against the tower pretty hard (while the computer was on). The
video immidiately went blank. Since then when I power on the computer
there is no video signal and there are no start-up beeps. There is
power, the fans spin, etc. I tried replacing the video card and that
didn't solve my problem.

So my question is, could those symptoms be a sign of a bad hard drive?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Sam
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Did you try the power connectors to the motherboard? Does your CPU fan work off the motherboard? Is this fan working?
 
RoJ" wrote in message news: said:
Probably not by the sounds of it. You should be able
to 'Boot-up' a PC without a hard-drive, and it will just
sit there saying No System Disk.
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That's what I thought and so I disconnected the hard drive and
restarted with the same results (no video, no start-up beeps). So
that means it's not the hard drive??
 
Try some basic troubleshooting.

Disconnect/remove *every peripheral device* from the motherboard. Reinsert
the video card only. Connect the monitor. Start the system.

It won't start completely because you don't have the keyboard plugged in.
However, you should see something on the monitor. If not, try swapping out
the power supply. If you still don't get anything, you fried you
motherboard.

If it works, replace devices, one at a time, until it fails. Once it fails,
the last device you plugged in, needs to be replaced.

courtney...
 
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