First post, by ookamithewolf1
Alright, I have a problem. Last year I picked up a HP Pavilion 8400A desktop PC for $5. I bought it for the case but when I plugged it in I found out it worked great. I set it up with tons of old games and applications. I used it every few weeks, until last week it all went wrong. When booted, it made it as far as the desktop before freezing. I re-set it and it seemed to go fine, but I blue-screened while i was trying to insert a usb storage stick. I re-booted, only to have the PC freeze halfway through scandisk. I re-booted again, but this time nothing. The lights on the tower light up, but the monitor stays asleep. There's no signal. It won't post
I took the hard drive out (a nice Quantum bigfoot )and tried to boot from another hard drive. nothing. I took the quantum and put it in another machine, and it booted fine, so i know it's not the hard drive. I re-installed the Quantum into the HP and tried an untested new-old stock power supply I had. Still nothing. The only thing I haven't tried is taking a power supply I know works and trying it with that. Any ideas on what might be the culprit here? Stats below
Pentium II 233MHZ
Quantum Bigfoot 8.4GB hard drive
Maxxor 20GB slave drive
256 mb Ram
unknown power supply/motherboard/sound card