Please excuse the non-ham question but hopefully folks here will have an idea or two.
One of my household PCs (not the ham PC thankfully) was dropped during a move to another room . Out spilled the memory cards , wireless PCI card, and the CPU heatsink fan. After reinstalling I get the PC to briefly boot up and then it shuts it's self down. The shutdown is too quick to get a any beep codes, the first couple of attempts I heard a European siren-type noise for a few seconds. Anyone here have any guesses what the issue would be? I wonder about CPU overheating but the fan snapped nicely back in to place and the fan appears to work fine. Any chance the bang to the PC would cause the CPU heatsink to lose a seal with the CPU? I have not taken the CPU heatsink off yet, it looks firmly in pace and apart from some dust in the heatsink fins, it looks OK. On the most recent attempt I took one of the memory sticks out and the PC boot-up lasted long enough to tell me that the "firmware had detected a change in memory configuration" Then I briefly got the flashed message about pressing a F -Key if I wanted to access the BIOS . Then it closed down. I am taking that as a sign the hardrive was briefly accessed. I am wondering if one would get similar symptoms if the power supply was somehow damaged during the fall ? Andy
