ShunNakamura
07-14-2005, 11:48 PM
Well I think I know what is wrong, but I figured a little extra insight wouldn't hurt.
A freind brought me his computer. This computer earlier had a ram slot problem(wouldn't always read the chip in slot 1.. put it in slot 2 and it was all fine till now(a 1-2 months at least)).
Anyways an extra fan that was sitting in his comp(really really little plastic one.. all plastic like what goes over old cpu's) this fan is now broken(the blades were busted off) and it was sitting near the ram(I suspect the blade hit the chip). His comp started having problems about the same time the fan was noticed to be broke.
So now I am taking the thing apart. I got it down to just the mother board. Everything works fine. add in the expansion slots no problem. Add in the harddrive.. just fine. The cd.. yep fine again. The floppy seems to run fine.. though sometimes the light remains on.. so I left it unplugged for the final test. Plug in the ram... nothing.. litterly nothing.
You hear the cpu turn on, you hear the hd start up, you hear the cd run, ... but nothing happens, no beeps. Un-plug the ram and it does the long beep to tell you that there is no ram present. Plug in the ram.. no beeps. The thing is supposed to make a small beep when the ram is detected right before it starts up.
Now I personally suspect either A) something fried his main board's ram slots(I doubt(hope that it isn't) it is this). or B) his ram chip isn't working.(I think this may be it).
I grabbed some of my extra ram to try it.. and well lets leave it with this.. his computer is so much newer then my old ram that my ram doesn't fit in it. The ram chip he is using is a pc2700 512 ddr ram chip. I can't find anything to fit in the slot yet... once I do I can test my theory. But I guess you guys can also throw in some insight.
A freind brought me his computer. This computer earlier had a ram slot problem(wouldn't always read the chip in slot 1.. put it in slot 2 and it was all fine till now(a 1-2 months at least)).
Anyways an extra fan that was sitting in his comp(really really little plastic one.. all plastic like what goes over old cpu's) this fan is now broken(the blades were busted off) and it was sitting near the ram(I suspect the blade hit the chip). His comp started having problems about the same time the fan was noticed to be broke.
So now I am taking the thing apart. I got it down to just the mother board. Everything works fine. add in the expansion slots no problem. Add in the harddrive.. just fine. The cd.. yep fine again. The floppy seems to run fine.. though sometimes the light remains on.. so I left it unplugged for the final test. Plug in the ram... nothing.. litterly nothing.
You hear the cpu turn on, you hear the hd start up, you hear the cd run, ... but nothing happens, no beeps. Un-plug the ram and it does the long beep to tell you that there is no ram present. Plug in the ram.. no beeps. The thing is supposed to make a small beep when the ram is detected right before it starts up.
Now I personally suspect either A) something fried his main board's ram slots(I doubt(hope that it isn't) it is this). or B) his ram chip isn't working.(I think this may be it).
I grabbed some of my extra ram to try it.. and well lets leave it with this.. his computer is so much newer then my old ram that my ram doesn't fit in it. The ram chip he is using is a pc2700 512 ddr ram chip. I can't find anything to fit in the slot yet... once I do I can test my theory. But I guess you guys can also throw in some insight.