casey Posted November 7, 2007 Report Share Posted November 7, 2007 My friends computer has stopped working. It is an Acer Aspire T310. The CPU heat sink fan & case fan run continuously at full speed.At switch-on the H/D light stays on steady for about 10 secs then shows no sign of activity. The 2 DVD drive lights flash and nothing on the monitor.I have changed the P/Supply, removed the graphics cards and run with only one bank of memory at a time. There are no beeps at all.The CPU cooler feels stone cold.He told me it happened the day before but he left it on for a while and it started up.I assume either the mother board or CPU have failed but have no way of checking either. Is there anything else I can do.Casey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted November 7, 2007 Report Share Posted November 7, 2007 To track it a bit further try one of the Linux bootable CD's, if that works then your hard drive is dead.As you have allready changed the PSU and tried with only one stick of memory, if the Live CD does not work it is the CPU or the motherboard.Dont forget if you try the live CD to make sure the computer is set to first boot from the CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casey Posted November 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2007 Thanks for the reply. I should have made myself clearer, when I said nothing on the screen I meant the monitor wouldn't come out of standby (tried my monitor, just the same).I will have to tell him to take it back where he bought it, as cannot find make of M/B. Searched the internet and the only suggestion that came up was that it might be a Medion.As a matter of interest if I fitted another make of M/B would his XP restore disk still work.Casey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddacker Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 this is a bit late, but...there is nothing harder than tring to tell a failed MB from a failed CPU when there are no beeps and you have no other tools. No beeps can usually mean one or the other and can look like a failed psu (but isn't). To answer the other half of the question: if the new motherboard is similar to the old, especially very, very similar in the chipset hard disk driver area you should have a go at revival from the existing HDD. It gets a bit much to go into here, but I have seen it done many times. If it was a failed cpu you are good to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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