Recent content by ridetoslide

Hello, my daughters pc went down. It's an older system and from the info the fine folks on this forum told me it sounds like the motherboard is bad. The board is an Epox 8KTA+ and after looking it over I can see the bulging capcitors. This pc is used for mainly aim, msn chatting, a little...

No electrical storms lately, my pc and other daughters pc's are fine. I took the cover off and the power supply fans are running. You can also hear the hard drive running. Tried opening a cd drive by pushing the button and nothing, and changed a couple of the IDE cables around no luck. Sounds...

Thanks for the ideas, I'll give that a try. How can you tell for sure if the motherboard is shot? Or for that matter the hard drive too? Thanks!

Hello, my daughters pc won't start up and not being a computer jock, I need some help troubleshooting this. When you push the power button, the green light comes on but I can't hear any beeps or sounds at all. The monitor has a green, red, and blue box that says " self test, check your pc and...