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James Samiam
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04-08-2006 15:08
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Nyte Caligari
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04-08-2006 15:22
Not sure if this will help... but a similar thing happened to me recently. My computer wouldn't turn on and the only thing that would is my graphics card fan. It turns out that the motherboard and power source had blown.
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Thili Playfair
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04-08-2006 17:03
Heat
Psu (powersupply)
something inside fell out of socket / loose
Malfunctioning hardware, like video card or something crapped out
usually some of those, i had a few times my pc wouldnt run, was my ram that somehow gotten abit to loose and pushed it back in pc started, eh i guess i must have kicked it in sleep.
Took a defrag once, got back pc was shut off, umm... one of the damn drives died :q and pc shut off.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-08-2006 17:21
If the problem was a loose connection, one would just unplug and immediately (before you forget where it goes) replug the big connectors, one at a time, the plastic pieces at the ends of the usually bundled red and black and blue etc. wires, right?
No technical knowledge required, do it one connection at a time so you can't get confused about how to put it back together.
Same thing for the connectors on the back of the hard drives, cds, etc. - you don't need to understand anything about how the computer works, just unplug and replug - it might not fix anything, but it won't hurt anything, you can't go wrong, and it just might fix the problem.
Rightish?
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Deimos Damone
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04-09-2006 13:55
Ok. Here is what you do. Open the case and lay it on a non-conductive surface. Make sure that you touch the unpainted surface of the case before handling any of the components to avoid wrecking anything with static electricitry. Remove all of the cards and unplug all the power and data connectors to the drives with the exception of the video card. Plug the power back in the case and turn it on. You should get the BIOS screen from the main board. The boot up will fail cuz there's no drives connected but you should get that far. As mentioned earlier, please make sure that you note where things are connected when your taking them out so you can put it back together. Let me know what you find.
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04-09-2006 14:17
When a computer suddenly stops POSTing, about 7 times out of 10, this works:
use the above steps to safely open your case and get to the parts inside. You'll see one or more cards plugged into your motherboard that are about 1.5" tall and about 5" long. These are your RAM. They are held in by two clips, one at each end. Open the clips of one card simultaneously to pop it out (you may have to remove your video card to open the lower clip.) Pull the card out of the bracket and then push it back in. It should 'click' in and the clips to either end should close (Some you may have to gently close the clips once the card is seated, depends on the clips). Do this, called reseating, to each stick of memory.
Then with all the clips closed, your video card back in place, close your computer up again and turn it on. Again, in my last job, this worked about 70% of the time. Some techs think the memory retains a latent charge that gets dissipated when pulled out of the slot, some think it's just a slight misalignment brought on by environmental conditions (vibrations and/or temp changes.)
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