Hi. I inherited 2 HP PCs when my Dad passed away 10 years ago that have sat in storage since (clean and dry, no dirt or moisture). Both would not have been that old at the time (1-2 years I'd guess).
I tried firing both up and got a series of beeps, the same from each. I read somewhere that this was probably due to the BIOS battery on the motherboard being flat so I opened up the older one and put in a new battery and re-seated the memory cards and graphics card for good measure. It fired up no problems and has been running ok for a while now so I left the other one for later. I've just done the same thing with the newer one (it was a decent HP gaming PC when new, a Phoenix something or other with Nvidea graphics card). I've done the same thing for it but have run into problems. I don't get the beeps any more when it starts up, but I get no video output from anywhere - just a black screen and the monitor goes to sleep. I know that the HDMI and DVI cables and monitors that I've tried all work fine with other PCs. I've even tried removing the cover over the motherboard DVI-D plugs and using them but still nothing.
Can anyone tell me what's going on or what else I can try? The PCs contained all the family tree work my Dad had done so I'd really like to access this one and get the info off of it.
Thanks.
I tried firing both up and got a series of beeps, the same from each. I read somewhere that this was probably due to the BIOS battery on the motherboard being flat so I opened up the older one and put in a new battery and re-seated the memory cards and graphics card for good measure. It fired up no problems and has been running ok for a while now so I left the other one for later. I've just done the same thing with the newer one (it was a decent HP gaming PC when new, a Phoenix something or other with Nvidea graphics card). I've done the same thing for it but have run into problems. I don't get the beeps any more when it starts up, but I get no video output from anywhere - just a black screen and the monitor goes to sleep. I know that the HDMI and DVI cables and monitors that I've tried all work fine with other PCs. I've even tried removing the cover over the motherboard DVI-D plugs and using them but still nothing.
Can anyone tell me what's going on or what else I can try? The PCs contained all the family tree work my Dad had done so I'd really like to access this one and get the info off of it.
Thanks.