johntennock
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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 out with a bit of advice.
It is an old Celeron CPU with (according to the manual) an ASUS TUSI-M Socket 370 Motherboard, SiS 630ET AGP Chipset. Running Win 2000 if I can only get it to start up.
The history is that, over the last couple of weeks it has been spontaneously re-booting itself, particularly when first turned on in the morning. This has been getting steadily worse, possibly (just my impression) due to onset of cooler weather combined with cooling down while turned off overnight.
Sometimes it would start up with the BIOS setup screen so, rightly or wrongly, I decided to replace the CMOS battery. Now it won't complete the startup sequence at all.
When I hit the start button I get one short beep, which the manual says indicates "no error during P.O.S.T. Sometimes the memory test runs and counts up to 245760 then the monitor goes blank. I can't get it to go into BIOS setup mode.
I have messed about a bit swapping around the memory modules and this seems to make some difference but I haven't been able to clearly relate cause and effect.
Any suggestions about a rational diagnostic approach would be greatly appreciated. (It's my wife's computer, so me ego is on the line )
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 out with a bit of advice.
It is an old Celeron CPU with (according to the manual) an ASUS TUSI-M Socket 370 Motherboard, SiS 630ET AGP Chipset. Running Win 2000 if I can only get it to start up.
The history is that, over the last couple of weeks it has been spontaneously re-booting itself, particularly when first turned on in the morning. This has been getting steadily worse, possibly (just my impression) due to onset of cooler weather combined with cooling down while turned off overnight.
Sometimes it would start up with the BIOS setup screen so, rightly or wrongly, I decided to replace the CMOS battery. Now it won't complete the startup sequence at all.
When I hit the start button I get one short beep, which the manual says indicates "no error during P.O.S.T. Sometimes the memory test runs and counts up to 245760 then the monitor goes blank. I can't get it to go into BIOS setup mode.
I have messed about a bit swapping around the memory modules and this seems to make some difference but I haven't been able to clearly relate cause and effect.
Any suggestions about a rational diagnostic approach would be greatly appreciated. (It's my wife's computer, so me ego is on the line )