K
kony
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:33:17 +0100, darklight
<nglennglen@netscape.net> wrote:
>john doe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seemingly damaged my dell dimension 8200 during a recent shipping. The
>> graphics card NV11 and sound card detached from the motherboard during
>> shipping and bounced around in the tower. When I plug in the computer, I
>> don't see any display on the monitor and the hard drive light in the
>> front of the tower don't light up. The hard drive is working fine (I
>> took it out and tested it as an external drive).
>>
>> Problem: I don't have another computer so that I can swap components to
>> troubleshoot effectively.
>>
>> Possible solution: is there a cheap graphics card that someone can
>> recommend that I can buy and test? Is there any way to troubleshoot my
>> machine?
>>
>> I will really appreciate any help.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>do you get any beep errors if not i would put my money on the cpu
>with a faulty graphics card you would get beep errors
1) There are several faults that don't produce beep errors,
besides the CPU. The CPU is not at all likely to be damaged
during shipping, _unless_ the heatsink wobbled around on it
cracking the core, and/or the heatsink fell off and the
system was ran without the heatsink installed.
2) Without any graphics card installed you may have beep
errors, but you will not necessarily have beep errors with a
faulty graphics card.
<nglennglen@netscape.net> wrote:
>john doe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I seemingly damaged my dell dimension 8200 during a recent shipping. The
>> graphics card NV11 and sound card detached from the motherboard during
>> shipping and bounced around in the tower. When I plug in the computer, I
>> don't see any display on the monitor and the hard drive light in the
>> front of the tower don't light up. The hard drive is working fine (I
>> took it out and tested it as an external drive).
>>
>> Problem: I don't have another computer so that I can swap components to
>> troubleshoot effectively.
>>
>> Possible solution: is there a cheap graphics card that someone can
>> recommend that I can buy and test? Is there any way to troubleshoot my
>> machine?
>>
>> I will really appreciate any help.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>do you get any beep errors if not i would put my money on the cpu
>with a faulty graphics card you would get beep errors
1) There are several faults that don't produce beep errors,
besides the CPU. The CPU is not at all likely to be damaged
during shipping, _unless_ the heatsink wobbled around on it
cracking the core, and/or the heatsink fell off and the
system was ran without the heatsink installed.
2) Without any graphics card installed you may have beep
errors, but you will not necessarily have beep errors with a
faulty graphics card.