PC refuses to boot up...

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Trillock

Limp Gawd
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I am hoping you knowledgable chaps might have some bright ideas.....:)

His machine is my 'old' one comprising:

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Ultra - AMD X2 4400+ - 2GB pc3200 memory (4 x 512MB) - (newish) BFG 9600GS - Corsair HX620 - a couple of HDD's and an optical.

The problem:

This evening he got a couple of Bsod's mentioning a 'memory dump'..he couldn't remember much of the message.
He shut down and restarted and all he got was a blank screen........no POST.........nuffink.
So he brought it round to me...........

I have very little knowledge, so all I have done is to eliminate the GFX card and monitor, by installing his card in my machine using my monitor, which booted fine to the desktop.........and shut it down smartish, as Vista64 wanted to install drivers.........his is an Nvidia card and my machine is currently running ATI cards....:)

I reseated his card and got the same result.......blank screen.

The code is showing 04
I cannot find the handbook for the motherboard, so atm don't know what is preventing it to boot/post.

Is that enough info for a 'guess' as to the problem ?
If not I will be happy to supply anything else you might like to know.

Luckily he has a laptop, so he is not completely computerless.....:D

Thanks in advance..
 
Hit up the stickied Basic Trouble Shooting Guide. Specifically the part that says what to do when the system doesn't POST
 
Thanks, had done that, and checked that power connections were in tight....i.e. disconnected and reconnected.

The board lights up, fans spin up, Corsair memory sticks led's twinkle away...it all looks normal, but no display.

It has to be something simple (I hope) but I know not what....

Thanks for the reply.
 
Did you strip the system down and place it on a cardboard box of some sorts outside of the case?
 
Nope, not stripped it down.
It was working fine, then bsod'd a couple of times and then refused to boot.
Looks like I might have to though....:)
 
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