My long-term servant died. Post mortem wanted. No more vital signs; so I cannot run TSG SysInfo. I can tell you it was private label, not a Dell or a Gateway or an Acer, etc. I bought it used five years ago. It has an AMD Athlon Dual Core 2.3 GHz processor, 2GB RAM, Win XP, 38GB HD, a Microstar motherboard.
When it passed on, the poor thing smelled acrid. I assume the electrolytics overheated. In a desperate effort to return it to life, I replaced the power supply with a used one from Ebay, an Enhance ATX1125.
It had flickered the day before, just for a fraction of a second. The next day, it just silently quit after emitting the deathly odor.
After I replaced the power-supply, it turned on, the power-supply's fan whirred, the fans on the CPU, the GeForce graphics card whirred, the hard-drive spun, and the power LED on the front panel lit. The monitor remained dark. So...it's not just the power supply. It has had an organ failure. How can I tell if it is the motherboard, the hard-drive, the RAM, or the graphics card, or a combination? I do not have parts I can substitute.
Is it worth taking to a repair service for a determination? Now that I have replaced the power supply, maybe just replacing the hard-drive would fix it? Or should I just take it to the toxic waste dump? What to do?
When it passed on, the poor thing smelled acrid. I assume the electrolytics overheated. In a desperate effort to return it to life, I replaced the power supply with a used one from Ebay, an Enhance ATX1125.
It had flickered the day before, just for a fraction of a second. The next day, it just silently quit after emitting the deathly odor.
After I replaced the power-supply, it turned on, the power-supply's fan whirred, the fans on the CPU, the GeForce graphics card whirred, the hard-drive spun, and the power LED on the front panel lit. The monitor remained dark. So...it's not just the power supply. It has had an organ failure. How can I tell if it is the motherboard, the hard-drive, the RAM, or the graphics card, or a combination? I do not have parts I can substitute.
Is it worth taking to a repair service for a determination? Now that I have replaced the power supply, maybe just replacing the hard-drive would fix it? Or should I just take it to the toxic waste dump? What to do?