computer screen frozen

Robertvv said:
Currently their is now display. The monitor say it goes to power saving mode, and that one heat sink get very hot. Too hot if you ask me.
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That's the ICH7 Southbridge. North and soutbridge do run quite hot. Best you can do is to remove the heatsinks, clean off all the old thermal paste, apply new paste and put heatsinks back. Doubt that it will fix the issues but it's a cheap excercise in trying.
 
Ok, so I said to myself, since I took the possessor out, the display died. So I took it out again, clean it, put it back, clean the ram, start the think and it starts.

No frozen up yet. I am going to add a fan on that hot heat sink.

Thanks for all the advice.
 
You should look into "beep codes". Usually when there is a problem with the PC on startup and there isnt even a disply, the PC will make certain beep sounds. This can signify Ram, CPU or GFX issues. If there is no beep then I usually find its the mobo that has died.
 
johnr86 said:
You should look into "beep codes". Usually when there is a problem with the PC on startup and there isnt even a disply, the PC will make certain beep sounds. This can signify Ram, CPU or GFX issues. If there is no beep then I usually find its the mobo that has died.
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That advice works for older boards, but some newer ones that support EUFI BIOS and FastBoost are starting to not bundle in the speaker header pins.
 
As per your photo, it looks like the CPU heatsink is not properly clipped in - 2 of the studs are not rotated to locked position.
 
johnr86 said:
You should look into "beep codes". Usually when there is a problem with the PC on startup and there isnt even a disply, the PC will make certain beep sounds. This can signify Ram, CPU or GFX issues. If there is no beep then I usually find its the mobo that has died.
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heres my 2c worth:

did you try take everything out of the case? ie, mobo out, PSU out, and put the whole thing on a newspaper or something and see if it works,
just route the on/off button nearby or detach the front panel if possible.

had something similar with my quite newish H61 slot 1150 socket board, and also with older boards, seems like they hang forever but the drive spinning,
also try with hiren, can you run mini XP mode?

try swap around as many components as possible, sometimes the smallest thing fixes it, like I mentioned removing it from your case and running it barebones.....
one of the stand-off might have broken, cockroach shorting 2 pins, dead mouse/spider/parktown prawn ect......
 
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