My gateway model gt4022 won't start up (by 3 users)
my computer won't start up. at frist it was not starting sometimes then i had to start it at the power cord.( unplug then plug in) now it won't start at all. fans come on but that's it. took it to local shop and they said the mother board is bad and want 325. installed. to fix it. i am not sure they know what they are doing thou. at frist they said it was starting just fine. then they said it was not even spooling and that i had no vidoe at all.
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Comment by Guest, posted on Jun 18, 2008
Bought my GT4022 9/29/06. Same sort of issue. Worked fine until a few weeks ago. I then had to reboot it several times from the power button before it would completely boot up. That lasted a day or two. Now it won't boot at all. Fan spins but monitor has "no input signal" displayed. Checked monitor on a difference pc and it's fine. Since I bought it at Best Buy I asked the Geek Squad and the rep said it sounded like the MB and not a power supply problem. They want $59 to diag it, and a few hundred to replace MB if that's the problem. I only spent $500 - $600 for it so I am not sure I see the point. Anybody else have this sort of trial with their GT4022? Goodbye Gateway!
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Comment by Guest, posted on May 24, 2008
my power supply box that connected to my mother board have only 20 slots but on the mother board it have 24 slots so maybe this is why it is odd. i unpluged it time to time and it pops on as long as it power button light up but now its don't do that anymore, i am no expert but it seem like it have a short connection or something i never seen this tpye of board b4. after letting it sit awhile it pops on.....
Apprenticend then breaks or opens when the computer has had power long enough to continue running on its own. I suppose by pulling the plug out then putting it back in you replicated this process. While it may well cost $325 to pull out and replace your mother board and I don't think that is terrible, do you want to spend that much on an older machine? For another $300 or $400 and maybe less if you shop hard you have a new machine. If your monitor and other accessories are good so much the better you can spend it all on the case and its contents. Sorry I can't offer more. And as far as I know spinning fans mean you have some power coming in but not much else. Try a switch first or maybe the shop did that?
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