monitor yellow light vs. blue light?

Question

i have and problem with my old computer i bought in 2005 i have another i using know. i beening trying to get my computer old computer turn on but everytime i put the monitor in to it. the monitor light will stay will come and it will not show nothing on the monitor the yellow light will stay on the monitor i am using now it does the same thing.i have for hard drive and i just wanted to see what's on the computor so i can make and exterial drive out of one of these hard drives. the computer i am talking about is a compaq 5420us,amd model 1700-512mb-80gb. i dont now what to do put it in the shop at bestbuy or what can someone please tell my what's up with the yellow light on this computer i dont know why it what got to the blue. thanks for your time and help.

Answer 1

The light not changing color on the monitor is the monitors way of telling you it is not getting a signal from the video card of the computer. It could be a number of problems - but to put it simply the old computer is not working.



Turn on the old computer and listen carefully does the fan start up and after about 5 - 40 seconds you should hear a single beep. This is the computer checking its components (including the video card) and "posting". If a beep but the monitor stays black.. Computer repair shop time. If no beep probably a power supply problem or video card problem. You can easily replace the power supply or video card.



You can always take the hard drive out of the old computer and put it in your new one. CAUTION!!! Change the jumper on the back of the hard drive to the SLAVE position then just put it in your new computer connect the cable and power to it and the computer should see the drive and get to the information on the drive. Use it as a second internal hard drive as needed.

Answer 2

sounds like your power supply is bad. if the monitor works on another pc then that would be my first guess...had it happen 3 times ....so far.

Answer 3

i'm uncertain what you're getting at, or the place you get carry of the thought printer ink is purple, blue, and green. purple, blue, and green are the commonplace hues of light, while ink is many times magenta, blue, and yellow (and black). EDIT: the commonplace additive hues are purple, green, and blue (purple and green make yellow); the commonplace subtractive hues are purple, yellow, and blue.