Hi BITOGers,
I was tasked with fixing my wife's grandmother's computer. I dug into it and found that it's a pretty decently robust system for the facebook games and such that she usually uses it for.
It's equipped with an AMD Radeon HD7450 and no onboard video at all.
With that being said it came to me with a no boot condition, no beeps, no nothing, just powered on and fans and lights came on and that's it. I did some poking around and found that the PSU was outputting 2v higher on all outputs than it was specified to, so I replaced that and found the problem still existed. At this point I was thinking maybe the video card was bad so I pulled out out expecting a beep code but instead noticed that the keyboard lights and hard drive activity lights were actually lighting now.
After a little more fiddling around I found that the computer works perfectly fine as long as the video card isn't 'tight', meaning I don't tighten down the clamp that holds the expansion cards in place.
Any ideas on where I can look to find the root of the problem? Or should I just leave the clamp loose and hope for the best?
I was tasked with fixing my wife's grandmother's computer. I dug into it and found that it's a pretty decently robust system for the facebook games and such that she usually uses it for.
It's equipped with an AMD Radeon HD7450 and no onboard video at all.
With that being said it came to me with a no boot condition, no beeps, no nothing, just powered on and fans and lights came on and that's it. I did some poking around and found that the PSU was outputting 2v higher on all outputs than it was specified to, so I replaced that and found the problem still existed. At this point I was thinking maybe the video card was bad so I pulled out out expecting a beep code but instead noticed that the keyboard lights and hard drive activity lights were actually lighting now.
After a little more fiddling around I found that the computer works perfectly fine as long as the video card isn't 'tight', meaning I don't tighten down the clamp that holds the expansion cards in place.
Any ideas on where I can look to find the root of the problem? Or should I just leave the clamp loose and hope for the best?