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A co-worker gave me her computer to look at.
It is a HP m7077c. She said she thought her monitor was bad because it just said no signal. I figured it was the video card. She said it started this about 2 weeks ago after she sprayed it with air in a can (just in the front vent). It will just power up but not video display.
She brought it to me and I opened it up and it was pretty nasty (see attached).
I got it home tonight and replaced the video card with a 7200GS I have laying around (that does work). Booted up, still no video. No Post screen, no beeps from the board, all fans do turn on and the HDD is making noise (it powers on right when I plug the PSU in every time). I try a BIOS reset, same result.
So I take the whole thing apart (man was it dirty, and what a pain to take apart). Had the board on a cardboard box, removed the HSF and replaced the TIM and re-installed it.
Blew out all the slots, put in a stick of DDR2 I had so I know it was good, put the 7200gs back in and used an Antec PSU and another know good HDD. Tried to boot again, same result.
I am guessing that the motherboard has gone bad? Bad PCI-e slot (I had a PCI card somewhere, but can't find it)? CPU bad?
Anything I could check, or do I just need to tell her she needs a new motherboard? I am not real familiar with Intel, but this troubleshooting is the same as AMD.
What is a decent cheap Matx board that supports the Pentium I have (Pentium4 640 (P) HT 3.2 GHz).
This Zotac any good?

It is a HP m7077c. She said she thought her monitor was bad because it just said no signal. I figured it was the video card. She said it started this about 2 weeks ago after she sprayed it with air in a can (just in the front vent). It will just power up but not video display.
She brought it to me and I opened it up and it was pretty nasty (see attached).
I got it home tonight and replaced the video card with a 7200GS I have laying around (that does work). Booted up, still no video. No Post screen, no beeps from the board, all fans do turn on and the HDD is making noise (it powers on right when I plug the PSU in every time). I try a BIOS reset, same result.
So I take the whole thing apart (man was it dirty, and what a pain to take apart). Had the board on a cardboard box, removed the HSF and replaced the TIM and re-installed it.
Blew out all the slots, put in a stick of DDR2 I had so I know it was good, put the 7200gs back in and used an Antec PSU and another know good HDD. Tried to boot again, same result.
I am guessing that the motherboard has gone bad? Bad PCI-e slot (I had a PCI card somewhere, but can't find it)? CPU bad?
Anything I could check, or do I just need to tell her she needs a new motherboard? I am not real familiar with Intel, but this troubleshooting is the same as AMD.
What is a decent cheap Matx board that supports the Pentium I have (Pentium4 640 (P) HT 3.2 GHz).
This Zotac any good?