PC HELP

Having trouble with my pc at the minute .

looks like my pc has over heated and conked out . the fan has been blowing on and off for a while when in use and by the looks of it needed a clean out . left my pc on by mistake last night and it looks like it cut itself off

If it's the fan would there be a trip switch on the motherboard or somewhere that would need resetting or to check for something else ?

i have powered up the machine and it's makeing a bell like sound but not booting up .any tips lads

Do you honestly think that us on this board would have any idea of how a PC words, its hard enough for us to type. Hope you get it sorted out soon tho.

A lot of machines have a threshold setting in the BIOS - if the CPU or system temperature reaches the threshold it will power down. A lot also have a diagnostic 'beep' system that can give you an idea of the problem - eg. on a HP machine 5 beeps and a pause means the RAM is the problem. If you have something like that going on, look for the motherboard model and google it or dig out your manual. A common problem I had with overheating motherboards was the chipset (usually has a smaller heatsink than the CPU). Removing the heatsink and fitting a better one, or cleaning and repapplying it with new thermal paste often helps. First thing to do though is open it up and blast everything with an air-duster. Also check everything is still connected. Make sure the fans still spin, too.

Good luck.

Last edited by Bluebird007 on Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Will it run in "SAFE MODE"...........?