I was refereed to this forum from an auto forum and I want to thank everyone in advance for your help.


My ex asked me to look at my daughters computer. When I first looked at it it would boot but to a corrupted vista install. I pulled the drive because my daughter had school work she needed saved. Got the files off put the drive back in to to a re-install of Vista the power BUTTON came on and the DVD drive flashed but nothing else. No beeps no video no BIOS nothing. I checked to make sure everything was connected. Then I started removing things one at a time but still nothing. I put my video card in to see if it was just the video that died and that didn't work EITHER. I THINK I have it narrowed down to the main board or power supply but have no idea how to test either.

The computer is an Acer AM1640-U1401A
Intel duel core processor
2 -512gb DDDR2 memory
250gb SATA hd
DVD+R DL muti-recorder

I added a Linksys N wireless card last year. Ran fine with this setup until now.

I should note that when I saved the files for her and had the drive in my PC my anti-virus software went insane and found 26 virus' I scanned the drive with PartitionWizard Home edition and it passed the surface scan test. Vista Repair InstallThank you but how does that help me? If the computer booted I would have no problem doing a clean install of vista. Quote from: Rodville on July 12, 2010, 09:57:03 PM

...No beeps no video no BIOS nothing. I checked to make sure everything was connected. Then I started removing things one at a time but still nothing. I put my video card in to see if it was just the video that died and that didn't work either. I think I have it narrowed down to the main board or power supply but have no idea how to test either...