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Think im going to give up as already spent too much time to fix a computer i'm about to replace. Thanks for input

Yup already putting order in, just irritating for next week or so. Just took battery out and waited 5min and still dead as a dodo. Think time to give up, but really appreciate all the ideas and input.

I waited 5 min before replacing the battery

So replaced the graphics card, took out the ram. When I press the power there is a brief spin of the fan then dies. I have lights on MOBO. Took graphics card out, removed power cable, held power button for 30 sec, restart produces absolutely zero

So how to i enable the onboard graphics if I can get into the BIOS? Seems a catch 22. i haven't touched the SATA or CPU so no reason to think the connections will be an issue? Seems without knowing if the onboard graphics is enable i need to stick the graphics card back in and try to boot...

sorry had to go out last night. Thnaks for all the replies To clarify yes the SSD is the windows drive and I have 2 HDD data drives. Originally the noise I could hear sounded like a HDD trying to spin up and failing rather than the clicking of a fan. Removing cleaning and replacing the RAM has...

Is this the CMOS battery that I need to take out to reset the CMOS. Any point given getting no signal form either onboard or graphics card?

Removed the graphics card and using the onboard HDMI still nothing

Well the machine is getting pretty old and was considering a replacement anyway. How do you clear the CMOS if you can get anything on screen?

Hi Munu. cleaning the Ram got the PC started without the horrible grinding noise. However nothing on screen. Main setup has 2 DP connected monitors . I tried connecting to a standalone monitor using all 3 DP ports and the HDMI port on the graphics card. All say no signal. Can I assume from this...

Sorry its a desktop but made by a gaming company so not sure of the specs as a few years old . I think its this 1.0000 Diablo Reactor 1 Zalman Z3 Plus Mid Tower Case 1 Intel Core i7 6700K Quad Core Socket 1151 1 ID-Cooling SE-214X CPU Cooler 1.0000 Standard Thermal Paste...

Come back from holiday to discover my wife's Win11 machine will not start up. Can hear a bit of grinding noise from the HDD . Opening the case the fans start running on power up for a few seconds then stop then try again in continuous loop. Only screen message is "no DP signal" no windows or...