When I turn on my PC there is no display on the monitor and no lights on the keyboard/mouse. Motherboard LED glowing, CPU fan spinning. What's wrong?
if you have no beeps or any response but just lights and fans running, then there are oly 3 things that can go wrong here,1, psu gone bad ( how old is the PSU)2, CPU over heated, heat sink clogged or overclocking or just the weather and placement of that computer does effect your PC.3, Bios could be corrupted or possibly blown.you can rule out the ram because if its a ram issue then when you switch on your pc it should give you beeps.there is one possible solution that might work if its a glitch, remove everything from your mother board, and i mean every thing , rams, processor, hdd cables, anything , even the cmos battery, the only thing that should be attached to the motherboard should be the power cable from the PSU thats all, no peripherals, keyboards mouses vga display cards, strip it to the last bit, you dont need anything, remove all the power connections from hdd’s and any other drives or ports if you are using extra stuff, this will give maximum wattage to the motherboard, after yoou are done with stripping your motherboard, shift your cmos jumper to clr cmos, connect power and switch on your mother board, remember no rams, no processor, no vga or anything, let it run for 10 minutes, you will hear nothing from the board but just a few lights on the board, this process is used for discharging motherboards, mostly done to those computers that are kept in storage for a long long time, they develop this kind of issue and we have to discharge them to bring them back to life.after completing this process, remove the power cable from the board, change jumper setting to normal position, install a new battery, install rams, processor and vga but dont attach the hdd or any other drive or stuff just attach the critical stuff, attach power cable and start the PC.if the problem was a glitch then your PC should be back to normal and running on factory settings, in fact it will run faster and better as if just out of the box. if its a hardware issue then my friend you need to say bye bye,remember this process is totally safe and will never ruin your pc, it can only improve the condition of your pc.best of luck .
Why doesn’t my PC start when I press the power start button?
Normally, I would say it shut down because it overheated. You see, there are temperature sensors on the motherboard. If they detect that the CPU is too hot, the BIOS will automatically shut down the computer to try to prevent damage, and it won’t let you power it back up until the temperature drops to a safe level.However, Age of Empires is not a very demanding game, so unless you have one or more fans that are not working, or the ventilation is blocked, I don’t think that AoE would cause it to overheat.Open your computer’s case. If there’s any dust, use a can of compressed air to blow it out. (Dust builds up on surfaces inside the computer and traps heat.) Make sure all your fans spin freely. It’s even plausible, but very unlikely, that a temperature sensors has malfunctioned and is reading “hot” all the time.The second thing that comes to mind… most motherboards (and some video cards) actually have a tiny light on them that indicates that they’re getting power. If you have something like that, and they’re not lighting up, your power supply might have died. Or if you press the power button and the fans don’t even spin, that can be an indication of a failed power supply (or a short on the motherboard).Anyway, that’s the two most likely culprits. Either your computer shut down because of overheating, or the power supply failed.
What do you do if your computer won't turn on after a power outage?
I think you should start with some of the basics that possibly you might not have considered.Is your computer plugged into a surge protector, and if so, does it have a circuit breaker? If so has it been tripped by a surge when the power was cut off or brought back. If the surge protector doesn't have a breaker, has the surge protector "burnt out" by a surge. Reset the breaker or replace the surge protector. It has done its job.Does your computer's power supply have a breaker? Is it tripped? If so reset it.When you attempt to turn the computer on, does the fan on the power supply turn? If it doesn't there's a chance the power supply isn't working and may need replacing. That could be cured by replacing the power supply or replacing the whole case and power supply.If you have the case open and start the computer does the cooling fan on the CPU run? If it doesn't there may be problems with power to the board. You might be looking at replacing the motherboard, CPU, or both.Do the drives run even if the CPU isn't running? The motherboard, CPU, or other important components may have been harmed by surges.If your computer can not be restarted and you can't figure out what has failed. Remember, in truth your computer is not the computer itself but what is on the hard drives. You can take those drives out and place them in another computer... but you might want a tech to do that who knows what they are doing with regards to re-registering the operating system.If your computer has a built in speaker... I know that might be archaic technology, but... computers have something called a POST test. The POST test will play a series of beeps on start-up and the pattern will tell you what has failed. If all is well, that is what produces the beep you hear when starting a computer.When I last had a problem like this... I came home after an extended absence and there had been a substantial spike on the power-lines due to a power-line tower collapsing into the Fraser River. Even though my electronics were Off, and protected by surge protectors the surge got through to the CPU of one of my desktop computers, gateway router, a printer, and a scanner. I cured the computer problem by transplanting the drives into another computer case that had a working motherboard and CPU in it.I am a bit rusty in my computer repair skills, but I hope some of this may help.
Whats that noise your computer makes when working?
might be a fan, but I think what youre describing actually is the hard drive. like a grinding clicking kind of noise? inside the hard drive there are discs like cds that spin (but obviously they can hold more than cds). on top of these discs there are moving arms. on the end of the arms are sensitive electromagnets. the arms move the same as the laser on your cd/dvd/blu ray/etc moves. you might be hearing that move around, you might be hearing the disc moving, it might be the fans, it might be something completely different. I would guess the hdd though, based on your description.