Recent content by johntennock

The motherboard all looked OK, and the power supply voltages checked out OK on a multimeter, and on the BIOS monitor. Given that replacing the power supply fixed the problem I suspect capacitors in the PSU. Probably there was too much AC getting onto the DC output, which wouldn't show up on a...

I reconfigured the BIOS setup to boot from the CD (with the Win2000 Install disk). That behaved in much the same way which seemed to prove that it wasn't a problem with the hard-drives, so it was back to PSU or motherboard. Decided to replace the PSU first and that fixed it. :D Hopefully this...

I swapped out the power supply but the one from the 'spare' machine didn't work at all, so I swapped in back to check that the original config still behaved in the same way. It did! Next I swapped out the motherboard, retaining the RAM from the original, it that didn't work at all either. So I...

Fortunately I have another almost identical machine, which I decomissioned a year or so ago, so I can try swapping the power supply (assuming the one from the other machine still works) and even the motherboard if necessary I suppose. Ah well, it looks like I know what I'll be doing...

Thanks for replying. No, the computer is not in a basement and there are no obvious effects of humidity like moisture forming on anything. Anyway, now the problem is that I can't even get to the BIOS setup screen.

First time on this forum. :) If possible I'd appreciate some help troubleshooting an old PC. Being retired, I have the time to mess about fix it myself, but not the money to replace it, or take it to the local computer shop. I seem to have got a bit out of my depth but can probably figure it...