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Lights are on but nobodys home
The part about hydrogen gas is really wild !
"Greg" wrote in message ... For those that might be wondering... it was blown capacitors. More info can be found here... http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...0207018535.htm "Greg" wrote in message ... A funny (hardly) thing happened today, the computer got choppy, hesitating and failed. I had a lock up and was forced to hit the reset button and that was the last I saw of windows or anything for that matter. Turn the power back on and the HD spins up and light comes on, the cd's power-up, no floppy (might be a bios setting, but can't get to bios), blank monitor. And that's as far as it gets. HD light stays on. Can't boot from CD or floppy, tried. Pulled cover and unplugged HD, restarted, same result, HD light stays on but HD completly unplugged, what's up with that? So what's the deal? CPU/MB shot? This computer was rarely shut down and was pretty much on 24/7, used primarily for internet, e-mail and text documents. |
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Lights are on but nobodys home
A funny (hardly) thing happened today, the computer got
choppy, hesitating and failed. I had a lock up and was forced to hit the reset button and that was the last I saw of windows or anything for that matter. Turn the power back on and the HD spins up and light comes on, the cd's power-up, no floppy (might be a bios setting, but can't get to bios), blank monitor. And that's as far as it gets. HD light stays on. Can't boot from CD or floppy, tried. Pulled cover and unplugged HD, restarted, same result, HD light stays on but HD completly unplugged, what's up with that? So what's the deal? CPU/MB shot? This computer was rarely shut down and was pretty much on 24/7, used primarily for internet, e-mail and text documents. |
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Lights are on but nobodys home
"Greg" wrote in message ... A funny (hardly) thing happened today, the computer got choppy, hesitating and failed. I had a lock up and was forced to hit the reset button and that was the last I saw of windows or anything for that matter. Turn the power back on and the HD spins up and light comes on, the cd's power-up, no floppy (might be a bios setting, but can't get to bios), blank monitor. And that's as far as it gets. HD light stays on. Can't boot from CD or floppy, tried. Pulled cover and unplugged HD, restarted, same result, HD light stays on but HD completly unplugged, what's up with that? So what's the deal? CPU/MB shot? This computer was rarely shut down and was pretty much on 24/7, used primarily for internet, e-mail and text documents. it does sound like a motherboard failure... but there's always a chance that it was just the powersupply |
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Greg wrote:
A funny (hardly) thing happened today, the computer got choppy, hesitating and failed. I had a lock up and was forced to hit the reset button and that was the last I saw of windows or anything for that matter. Turn the power back on and the HD spins up and light comes on, the cd's power-up, no floppy (might be a bios setting, but can't get to bios), blank monitor. And that's as far as it gets. HD light stays on. Can't boot from CD or floppy, tried. Pulled cover and unplugged HD, restarted, same result, HD light stays on but HD completly unplugged, what's up with that? So what's the deal? CPU/MB shot? This computer was rarely shut down and was pretty much on 24/7, used primarily for internet, e-mail and text documents. The things that are on the critical path to at least reaching the BIOS setup screens are generally the power supply, the CPU, and the motherboard generally. Lots have people (including me) have had trouble with leaking capacitors, and I would check for those. Some manufacturers will repair the leaking capacitor problem at nominal cost, since it apparently stemmed from criminal activity by persons at one of their suppliers (and so presumably they can recoup those costs via agreements with the supplier in question). -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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Lights are on but nobodys home
Great! Thanks for the info. Got to go dig a hole in the backyard...
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Lights are on but nobodys home
For those that might be wondering... it was blown capacitors. More info can
be found here... http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...0207018535.htm "Greg" wrote in message ... A funny (hardly) thing happened today, the computer got choppy, hesitating and failed. I had a lock up and was forced to hit the reset button and that was the last I saw of windows or anything for that matter. Turn the power back on and the HD spins up and light comes on, the cd's power-up, no floppy (might be a bios setting, but can't get to bios), blank monitor. And that's as far as it gets. HD light stays on. Can't boot from CD or floppy, tried. Pulled cover and unplugged HD, restarted, same result, HD light stays on but HD completly unplugged, what's up with that? So what's the deal? CPU/MB shot? This computer was rarely shut down and was pretty much on 24/7, used primarily for internet, e-mail and text documents. |
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