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| Thread ID: 101790 | 2009-07-27 06:05:00 | desktop dying? | pukunui81 (15121) | Press F1 |
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| 795643 | 2009-07-27 07:36:00 | I've got hijackthis already. I'm currently running my virus software (avast) and when it's finished, I'll load up hijackthis and see if there's anything there. | pukunui81 (15121) | ||
| 795644 | 2009-07-27 07:38:00 | Cool, I'll check it once its copied and pasted | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 795645 | 2009-07-27 08:07:00 | Have you done a recent backup of your files? If not, I would be backing up any important files/photos as soon as possible before doing anymore troubleshooting. If your drive dies, then so does your data. | Jen (38) | ||
| 795646 | 2009-07-27 08:21:00 | Have you done a recent backup of your files? If not, I would be backing up any important files/photos as soon as possible before doing anymore troubleshooting. If your drive dies, then so does your data. Yeah I back everything up fairly regularly on my laptop, so I'm not too concerned. I'm actually thinking that if I can't fix the problem, I may have to wipe the slate clean and reformat and do a fresh install. I just want to avoid it if I can because it's such a time-consuming hassle ... |
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| 795647 | 2009-07-27 08:23:00 | Yeah I back everything up fairly regularly on my laptop, so I'm not too concerned. Great stuff. :thumbs: You would be surprised by how many people who don't do this, including tech-savvy people who should know better, and live to regret it. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 795648 | 2009-07-27 08:25:00 | The HDDs dying. If you want to confirm it, you could run the manufacturers diagnostic software. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 795649 | 2009-07-27 09:33:00 | The HDDs dying. If you want to confirm it, you could run the manufacturers diagnostic software. In fact I would say it is now dead. I noticed that it wasn't detecting my second hard drive, so I shut it down and pulled out the connectors and tried sticking them back in but one wouldn't go back in and I couldn't really see why, so I pulled the hard drive out and I noticed that one pin was sunken in and another was bent. I managed to straighten out the bent pin, got the connector back in and stuck the hard drive back in the computer ... But now when it loads up it gets stuck at "Detecting IDE drives ..." and at one point it gave off two long beeps and since then it's only been detecting half my RAM and still getting stuck at the hard drive detection stage ... Um so yeah I think my desktop is caput now. (I'm on my laptop at the mo'.) The only thing I hadn't really backed up was my e-mail. Most of it's online cos I used gmail anyway but not everything in Outlook is from my gmail (like my wife's stuff) ... I guess I've lost it? |
pukunui81 (15121) | ||
| 795650 | 2009-07-29 00:51:00 | Oooh! Oooh! Oooh! I fixed it! I pulled out the hard drives and plugged them into my bro-in-law's hard drive shell thing and plugged them into my laptop. The main hard drive was fine. It was the backup drive that wasn't working, and I got out some pliers and pulled the pin back out and it worked again! So I stuck both back into the desktop and fired it up and now it works ... Unfortunately, I appear to have lost a stick of RAM and my sound card in the process ... :( I think I can put up with that for another three months until Windows 7 is released, and then I'll just get a whole new desktop computer as I had originally planned to do. In the meantime, I'm looking at upgrading the RAM in my laptop ... |
pukunui81 (15121) | ||
| 795651 | 2009-07-29 02:05:00 | PSU problem might also be an option | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 795652 | 2009-07-29 02:52:00 | PSU problem might also be an option I have a feeling it's not since the sound card and one stick of RAM stopped working at some point during my attempt to find out what was wrong with the hard drives. During one boot up attempt, the computer let out two long beeps and failed to boot. After that, it only registered half the RAM during boot up attempts. I assume that's when the sound card went as well. I didn't notice it wasn't working until this morning. It's possible that the sound card itself is OK but that the PCI slot it was in is dead. I've switched it to the only other available PCI slot but that didn't help ... but I'm not sure if it's the card because I think I might have killed the other PCI slot with the same sound card a long time ago during a previous computer problem. As for the RAM, I've got two 512MB RAM sticks and two RAM slots. Let's call them A and B and 1 and 2 respectively. This is what I've done so far: If stick A is in slot 1, the computer boots normally. If stick A is in slot 2, the computer beeps and will not boot. If stick B is in slot 1, the computer boots but very slowly and Windows sees only 256MB of RAM. If stick A is in slot 1 and stick B in slot 2 or vice versa (stick B in slot 1 and stick A in slot 2), the computer boots normally but only sees 512MB RAM. This suggests that there is something wrong with both slot 2 and RAM stick B, which was in slot 2 when the problem occurred. The odd thing is that CPU-Z can see both sticks of RAM but XP and Everest cannot. |
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