The cpu is likely ok, the BIOS will flash the F-key message without accessing the hard drive, its not getting far enough in the sequence for the hard drive.
I had a machine that started doing something similar. It was the motherboard circuit that responds to the pushbutton power switch. You may have a cracked mother board or memory stick or circuit trace somewhere ?? KE4MZ, Brent Dothan, AL [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wb4zpi.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DIGITALRADIO" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 9:27 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Diagnosing issues with dropped PC > 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 > > ------------------------------------ > > Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at > http://www.obriensweb.com/sked > > Check our other Yahoo Groups.... > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
