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Have an IBM desktop pc that I turned on this morning and all I can hear is the fans blowing. Monitor won't come up. I looked inside and swapped the memory and pulled the main power and reseated it but that did nothing. Both fans are working properly but nothing seems to work. Just the fans. I get lights on the network card as well.
I get lights on the network card as well.Seems like the motherboard is getting power.
To verify ... see if you can plug something that needs charging into a USB port.
Can you borrow a monitor for testing?
Can you connect the monitor using a different method? (VGA / HDMI / DVI)
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I do not hear any beeps. Only the fans blowing.
That is why we suggest an alternate boot. The description above does not provide adequate information.
Make sure the HD is properly attached. Also look if the HD LED blinks when you try booting. If it is blinking, it is likely working, and then it is also likely that your display is bad as has been mentioned, or the cable connecting to it is bad or not properly attached.
you may want to use the minimum setup, as described here :
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Components/Motherboards/A_1945.html (Short-overview-of-how-to-
in case of a disk problem look here :
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Hard_Drives/A_3000-The-bad-hard-disk-problem.html
**what model desktop is this? older ones can suffer from bad capacitors
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Components/Motherboards/A_1945.html (Short-overview-of-how-to-
in case of a disk problem look here :
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Storage/Hard_Drives/A_3000-The-bad-hard-disk-problem.html
**what model desktop is this? older ones can suffer from bad capacitors
Thank you for the points. May I ask if you found a solution, and what that solution was?
May I ask if you found a solution, and what that solution was?
Also there were equal suggestions of bad parts / motherboard earlier back.
Also there were equal suggestions of bad parts / motherboard earlier back.
Could be: Monitor, hard drive failed, CPU/motherboard failed.