Switched on my PC this morning...... or is that yesterday, can't sleep so got up again.

anyway switched on PC, started fine only nothing on Monitor, check cable, then noticed no mouse or keyboard working...

Took it to the next Village PC Shop, he normally fixes everything....... later in the day picked it up working fine in shop..... oddly ? or ?

he said 1x stick of Ram was no good + one of the Fans,,

Got it home all looked fine, everything worked for 7 or 8 mins the the Screen went brilliant red and went out, mouse and keyboard also dead again..

Before there was a little green light on the motherboard, since the fix this is now very bright light...... the power on switch is bright but now fades away.....

Abyone please have any idea ? before taking it back down there again.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte AMD CPU biggest there was at the time and about 4 years old, have 6GB of DDR2 Ram, Case and Power supply is about 6 months old.

Before taking it to the shop had already tried another 1GB Graphics card bought 2x 9600 GT but only used one, so was not that

So what happens when u try to boot up now? Does it post? How do u know the keyboard and mouse aren't working now?

Try the other graphics card again. Try a different monitor.

What kind of PSU? It's a cheap one, such as those usually bundled w/ cases, could be making problems.

Anything can die at anytime, however. Hopefully u can get out this w/o needing to buy a new mainboard.

Edited January 16, 201313 yr by JSixpack

Monitor is fine am using at this moment with laptop, Mouse works fine on Laptop..

PC boots up fine ? or rather the lights come on, fans all work. DVD RW and DVD Ram RW opens fine, noise comes from speakers as normal, as normal the voice tells me the Anti Virus has been updated,,, still nothing on Monitor and mouse and keyboard no lights on and not working

Edit: I do have another Motherboard, but not the same it is a ASUS AMD Phenom II X4 board........ = I think means would have to have a new Win 7 ? as that would be changing from a Gigabyte AMD board

Edited January 16, 201313 yr by ignis

Did the repairman run a burn/diagnostic test before applying the fixes mentioned above? Check cords for damage and that everything is plugged in and turned on - if possible plug monitor, etc. into another PC - that eliminates what works from what doesn't. Open case - be sure case and you are grounded (a static charge can do damage) - clean/blow out all the dust from the fans and processor - check for signs of corrosion on M/B, etc. - plus loose connections. Leave off cover and reboot to see what happens. (High humidity = high corrosion). Last resort - repair like an American - run to shop - buy new.

Monitor is fine am using at this moment with laptop, Mouse works fine on Laptop..

PC boots up fine ? or rather the lights come on, fans all work. DVD RW and DVD Ram RW opens fine, noise comes from speakers as normal, as normal the voice tells me the Anti Virus has been updated,,, still nothing on Monitor and mouse and keyboard no lights on and not working

Edit: I do have another Motherboard, but not the same it is a ASUS AMD Phenom II X4 board........ = I think means would have to have a new Win 7 ? as that would be changing from a Gigabyte AMD board

USB mouse, USB keyboard, or PS/2? If USB, change ports. Try a USB flashdrive and see if it lights up.

You see no POST msgs on the monitor when booting?

Gotta try the other graphics card or onboard graphics if you have it.

Changing from one AMD mainboard to another shouldn't involve reinstalling 7 from scratch. Probably you won't need to do anything but install new drivers. At most, a repair reinstall: http://forum.thewind...ndows-7-a.html. However the new board may use DDR3. But don't give up yet on this mainboard . . . success belongs to the persistent. As above, open up the case and do a close inspection, esp for bad caps. http://www.google.co...EsbmrAfOtIH4AQ.

It would be of interest to see if you can boot from a CD boot disk or a USB stick, perhaps w/ a live Linux distribution. UBCD4Win here: http://www.ubcd4win.com. Maybe you have an original Win 7 disk to try just for the bootup. If no problem, then your Windows installation begins to look trashed. Otherwise, yep, it's hardware.

BTW, never hurts to spray some contact cleaner into the external ports. Once I even fixed a computer by spraying some into the DIMM slots after cleaning the RAM didn't work.

Edited January 16, 201313 yr by JSixpack

Fixed.......... returned to the shop, plugged it in nothing.........appears that he did not push one of the power connectors in correctly so only worked sometimes,........ or maybe the power to the Motherboard was not clicked/;locked in

Nice to be back on the big PC......... yes he cleaned it............ have 6 long haired dogs + always have the windows open 24/7 so gets a bit messy inside

Ah, the kind of fix I love!