Okay, newbie here, so sorry if lengthy post.
I helped a friend set up a computer (Pentium 2, 256k, I know old and slow), that was given to her for free. We upgraded some memory into it and all was well...she even had her dsl set up and working. The only thing we had problems with was printer not being recognized and speakers working really low.
We got the printer recognized and thought all was good until we remembered the speakers. Her speakers are new but plug into the middle (a black coloured hole) hole on the back, between the red and green similarily sized holes (all three holes are on the same 'line'). She could listen to CDs fine, although volume (even when cranked) was only medium...we have tested speakers out elsewhere and all was really loud at max, as they should be. The only whole that would allow her to hear the cds though was the black hole in the center, although that was mislabeled.
Well, in an attempt to change this (and being stupid), she removed speaker wire and put in similarily sized hole on the card plug-in she had previously used for dial-up. (System is a P2 and is poorly labeled.) She tested the speakers again, and still nothing from this hole, so powered down again, took out and put back into the black hole (which is above the monitor plug, but below the printer and power cable plugs).
When we started back up, the computer will come on but monitor now will NOT display anything (except once, when blue lines scrolled across like old UHF fuzziness). The original monitor goes immediately from green to yellow lit, and while computer warms up well (and ethernet connection from dsl even lights up, which takes 1-2 minutes) the computer then switches itself off almost immediately afterward. Except for the one exception already mentioned, the monitor now shows complete blackness, even though cords and connections have been checked. When we switched out monitors, the 'new' monitor powers up (as does the computer and the ethernet modem again), but again only green light (this replacement monitor does not have a yellow light to go to), but NOTHING on the screen, Again, the computer powers up and you can hear 'clicking' when you press keys on the keyboard, but after a minute or two, computer shuts off again. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't know about the beeps as problem indicator because computer new to us and well we can't really say what is 'normal' and what is not.
Anybody got any advice for the idiot newbie? And, did we fry the video card somehow? Suggestions for fixing? And does anybody have any hints on what to do about the speakers situation if we can get this thing fixed?
ANY ASSISTANCE OR HELP GREATLY APPRECIATED.
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
