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| Thread ID: 46803 | 2004-07-06 02:39:00 | Computer seems to have died for no reason | agent_24 (4330) | Press F1 |
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| 250150 | 2004-07-06 02:39:00 | Yesterday I took my computer up to a friends house for a lan party but found on arrival that it wouldnt work: Fans startup, harddrive turns on, so do CD drives; but nothing onscreen and after a few moments HDD light just turns off. Crazy as this computer had been on for a while that same morning. First 3 times it was tried i got alot of quck beeps, next two times 3 long beeps (bad ram) all other times sofar no beeps at all Took vid card out and tested in other computer - worked fine took Ram out and tested - worked fine stuck harddrive in other computer as a slave and was able to acess it fine. Checked CPU for damage - none visible removed and replaced battery - no change used CMOS wipe jumper - no change tried switching on with nothing connected except video card, ram CPU and PSU (and switches and such) - no change other strange thing is that when it just "hangs" i cant turn it off with the front switch (though normally i could do this if the machine was at the POST or such). Only thing i can think of is that something could have come loose in the car. Any help much appreciated |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 250151 | 2004-07-06 03:02:00 | It's possible a hardrive read head came in contact with the hardrive's platter during transit. In which case you'll have some damaged sectors. If this is the case only a reformat and reinstall of Windows will help, from my experience. A full scandisk will of course be needed to exclude the befuddled sectors. I faced this almost identical problem recently. But please don't take my word for it... hopefully someone else may come up with a less drastic solution |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 250152 | 2004-07-06 03:06:00 | well thats the thing - i cant really re-install windows as the system won't even show the Video card details (what you normally see first off). i have tried with no harddrive in at all, expecting a "no boot device" or similar error but still nothing. |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 250153 | 2004-07-06 03:35:00 | It's not just a ram stick out of place is it? Happened to me once, and I ended up pulling the computer totally apart to find out what was wrong... the damn thing had moved maybe 1mm, screwed up the whole pc. | bRaZZiN (2228) | ||
| 250154 | 2004-07-06 03:50:00 | > It's not just a ram stick out of place is it? > Happened to me once, and I ended up pulling the > computer totally apart to find out what was wrong... > the damn thing had moved maybe 1mm, screwed up the > whole pc. Yeah - sounds like a connection issue. Double check all the cables' connections |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 250155 | 2004-07-06 08:20:00 | I've tried re-connecting everything i can see but still it refuses to work. | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 250156 | 2004-07-07 03:25:00 | what are the chances the motherboard is dead, considering nothing bad even happened to it?? | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 250157 | 2004-07-07 06:15:00 | ******* UPDATE ********** after cleaning off the heatsink paste and carefully examining the CPU I noticed that on one side of the die there seemed to be some small pieces that had come off. I think my CPU is dead, probably due to the Volcano 9 and becuase of a bumpy car ride. Its the Only explanation i can see so far. |
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