My Computer will not boot up.?

Question

It went through a power outage but was turned off at the time. It was also on a surge protector. When I go to turn it on the fan come on but there is no signal to the monitor. I think is is the motherboard and was wondering how hard it is to change it out and does it need to be programmed

Answer 1

if the fan went on, it means that probably the power supply is fine, and that the mother board got the hit, it is difficult to change it, because all the PC components are plugged into it, and no it doesnt need programming, all your infos are still in the hard disks

Answer 2

A simple power outage, especially with the computer turned off, should not cause a problem. Power surges will cause problems, though.

However, you need first to determine if the problem is with the computer or with the monitor, so take your monitor to another computer and hook it up and see if it works. If it does, then it's something about your computer.

So open your computer case and see if you have a separate video card, as opposed to a chip for that built onto your mainboard. If you do have a separate video card, ensure that it is well seated in its port. Then hook the monitor back up to the computer, ensuring that it is solidly done, and turn the monitor on and then the computer. If the problem is still there, then you have a bad main board and must replace it.

Answer 3

Try another Monitor first. It doesn't sound like the motherboard but I could be wrong. Do you see the light blinking on the hard drive? I had the same thing happen on a laptop but before I used it for target pratice I decided to hook up an external monitor to it and that worked. Also try a different Surge Protector and outlet.

Answer 4

This happens alot;

before buying a new motherboard at least try repairing your windows installation (which honestly has never worked for me) by sticking the windows disk into the cd drive and powering on the computer. It will take a while to "inspect your configuration" and then give you the option of repairing or reinstalling windows.

I would just reformat (delete the partition windows is currently on) and then install windows back onto that partition.

DO NOT just install windows over where it is already installed. It will give you the option to delete the partition first (i believe by pressing l when your cursor is over the right partition). If you forget to do this; windows will give you a warning about installing windows over another copy of windows; just format and then install.

If you have multiple partitions on one physical harddrive (say c: is just windows, a: for games and b: for something else) all on 1 harddrive, you can just delete the c: partition without loosing all your files on the a and b partitions. This is why I would always put windows on its own seperate partition. Hope that helps!

Answer 5

my comp. did the same thing a month ago ,i had to get a new motherboard hope that ,s not it you could have a virus ,i think you need to put her in the shop!

Answer 6

Maybe your power supply is broken.

Answer 7

dead power supply