Firstly check the monitor, if you get 8 beeps as it is starting up, this points to graphics problems. Trying another monitor. If the problem remains, swap the graphics card or use the onboard graphics card.
If this fails and, more importantly, you are not getting any beeps (single beep would indicate your CPU is ok), the problem is likely to lie with the motherboard.
To help you further, please repost with the number of beeps if any, you get as it tries to boot up
Right. The fact that you are getting no beeps indicates that there is a fault on the board or with the CPU. You can test this by carefully feeling the side of the heatsink , if it feels warm, then the cpu is probably working, although substituting it with another one and fresh heatsink paste is the way to tell.
If it is cold to the touch after several minutes of running, then the CPU is probably dead
If the heatsink is warm, the motherboard is probably faulty, visually inspect the board, looking closely at the capacitors and if any are bulging / exuding a brownish crust from the top, then this is most likely the cause and a new motherboard will be reqyuired
Thank you very much for the advice, I am an absolute novice but at least I now know where to start etc. A new motherboard and fitting sounds like it may be costlly but I can at least now look in that direction.
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