my old desk top is screwd up. i will not turn on right. It powers on, but the screen is blank. what is it?

Question

the screen is either blue, snowy looking, or turns back off alltogether. the power is on the tower and lights flash on the floopy and cd dirves. I have tried old recovery disks and origional software cd's in various orders. Nothing seems to change. I took the tower sides off and looked for loose or burnt pieces and cant see anyting except dust. Someone told me it would not be the hard drive because nothing would happen at all if that was the case. It is an old windows 98 computer and not worth investing in execpt my daughter wants a computer and this is all i can afford. What do you think the deal is? Motherboard, processer, hard drive, or what? How do I check.?

Answer 1

I suggest to take help from wiz kid living your next door if you are not expert enough. Its wastage of your time if you even can't find whether its just your monitor cable out or motherboard burned.


Check out this link for basic trouble shooting.
http://ww2.franklin.k12.la.us/helpdesk/basic_troubleshooting.htm

Answer 2

You can only check the problem hardware by swapping in and out replacement parts.

Replacement parts for a Windows 98 machine will all be old and thus maybe faulty them-self.

Most repair facilities will not work on a machine of this age for the above reasons.

If I was a betting man I would guess your Mainboard has failed.

If funds are limited look around for a second hand working computer within your price range.

You may, if you look hard enough be able to get one for free.

Answer 3

Open the case, remove and replace the memory modules, then remove and replace every connector on the motherboard. Then remove and replace all the expansion cards if there are any. Don't forget the big white power connector on the motherboard. If this doesn't at least get you to where you can see the bios screen, then the motherboard is probably history.

Answer 4

nicely the most ordinary problem is did you position the cmos to cmos standard, when you consider that which will reason the device not demonstrate something or perhaps beep. once you've information on a thanks to attempt the device take out all ability cables to optical/complicated drives, PCI playing cards not required for bootup, like sound playing cards video playing cards unplugged keyboard/mouse speaker connections so the basically connection to the device is ability and video. re-seat your ram, eg turn off device unplug ability take out ram placed it decrease back it. if then starts up upload a million device then turn in decrease back until eventually until eventually it fails and then you recognize what's causing it. if it nonetheless fails to expose on then there's a difficulty with both video/motherboard/ram/cpu also did you note heatcompond on the CPU?

Answer 5

that happened to me,with my windows me.i had to reprogram the computer.i believe the windows xp upgrade its compatible with 98.and its only 100.00 dollars.you can try and find an me cd,but its gonna be hard to find,and probably more expensive.

Answer 6

If your computer is not working properly while you are working on it, it could be a problem with device drivers, hardware or software.
Detailed instructions at http://tinyurl.com/yk5zpr

Answer 7

try plugging in a different monitor, one you know is working, after the computer has started up, the nice thing about monitors is that they are hot swappable.

Answer 8

Check the diagnostics lights on the back and then message me back and tell me what color they are. They are the lights labled A,B,C,D.

Answer 9

have u tryed reloading your window with a windows disk?