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ACER AM1640 intermitant boot. Locks up at splashscreen

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bruce060356

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Someone at the apartment building i live was throwing away an Acer Desktop Am1640-U1401A with DDR2 ram 2gigs and Window Vista home premium so i thought i would take a look to see what was wrong with it. I booted it up and it went to the splash screen and stopped.So i shut it down and re-seated the ram and it booted to the sign in screen. Couldn't sign in because i have no password. Next time i rebooted same this goes to spashscreen and stops.It won't let me go into bios at all and i can't get into the boot menu either. My questions is it Motherboard or power supply? And if it is motherboard where can i get one that doesn't cost the national debt to get?:) Thank you guys in advance i really appreciate it.
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re-seated the ram and it booted
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should be the first clue.
It's quite possible the contacts need to be cleaned. It's also quite possible the RAM is bad. Try reseating all the MB connections before buying a new one, and try swapping RAM if you can, with some other RAM.


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This system has an Nvidia chipset that is a known issue. I would just look on ebay for a socket 775 board that would fit the case, and get a cheap video card and make sure it is low power, as the acer power supply is not very powerful.
 
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Checked all the connections re-seated the ram and i can't get pass the opening screen. F12 and del to get into bios is a no go. Don't have extra ram to test so i think i am going in the morning for a different board. Thanks for the help guys. Appreciate it very much.

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It's hardly worth buying a new mobo for it with only 2GB of RAM and Vista if you stayed with that. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear (cheap power supply, not much RAM).

"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.
 
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This is true goombawaho. I think i will just pitch it.Thanks for the info. And thanks for all the help guys.
 
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You can pull all the working guts and save them for some day.

"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares.
 
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