computer issues

[nomak]

Working on a computer here and it turns on and processor fan is running but no display with agp card. switch to a different agp card I know works and still no display.. Well next I tra a working pci slot video card that I know works.. machine powers up hear HDD crunching but no display.. try all three pci slots but still no luck..The mobo is a old style at mobo and there was a electrical storm the other night and thats when problems started.. the guy told me it would come up to the desktop but would not run any programs he tried to use.. Then I get it and no post no display nothing.. but yet I can hear the HDD running and the lights come on in the front.. Im guessing the Mobo is bad since its a good 7 yrs old.. anyone have any thought on this.. thanks,...P.S. Im having trouble swapping parts to the system being so old but I did put the HDD in another machine and it works fine..not sure how to test the AT power supply for I dont own a PSU tester.. thanks,...

 

[Dan17]

I ran into the same problem on another computer. I couldnt get video to work if i used agp or pci. It was a fairly old computer, so I decided to do some swapping to isolate the problem. Swapped the RAM, Power Supply, Hard Drive, to no avail. I had noticed previously that there was a light on the motherboard called Stby LED, which since it stayed on all the time it had to be the motherboard with the problem. Check your LED's to see if there is any that are on that shouldnt be. But it seems to me that it would definately be the motherboard...trash it.

...Dan

 

[nomak]

yeah after swapping of multiple pieces of hardware it was the Mobo.. swapped it out with another one I had and all is well now. thanks for your insight...