Power Surge-What is Fried?

brainwashed_kid

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Hey all. I recently recieved a computer to fix from some friends. It was hit by a power surge, and now I get a beep code, no video. It is AMI BIOS, with three beeps, so can I be sure that the motherboard is toast? I have swapped memory, vid cards, power supplies, and just disconnected everything.....any other troubleshooting I can do? Is it possibly the processor?
Thanks,
Spencer
 
It is possibly the mother board.. because you went through every other possible problem and changed the variables. I'm not sure if it is the processor or mobo.
 
Yeah I think it could be the motherboard too... the motherboard might have surge protection on it which would stop power to any other devices before they fried. I hope so.
Shame about the pc though :(
 
Same thing happend to a gateway i have....power surge, just the mobo was bad memory graphics card and everything else worked
 
lol after all the upgrades i just bought and i still dont have a surge protector. im thinking i should get one after hearing about this
 
lol yeah im thinking the same thing surge protection better invest i think.
summer thunder storms on the way
 
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