12th October 2010, 11:37 AM
True, but honestly I don't think a bad sound card would prevent the system from even powering up.
The big 3 for something like that is: motherboard, power supply, and CPU. Modern computers will at least give an error beep if the RAM is no good. If you can double check those things, then that should solve the issue. I guess I should ask how far the startup process normally goes when it fails to startup. Does it fail to power up entirely?
The big 3 for something like that is: motherboard, power supply, and CPU. Modern computers will at least give an error beep if the RAM is no good. If you can double check those things, then that should solve the issue. I guess I should ask how far the startup process normally goes when it fails to startup. Does it fail to power up entirely?
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