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alpha_fruit Prince
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 5804 Location: Western North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: New PC crash. |
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My new HP Pavillion PC that I got in September, crashed this AM, it's the one that has all my working stuff on. The HP Tech (India) said it may be the Video Card or the Ram chip. I was reading here and it went black, nada since then, so it's in to my PC guy. I really hope I don't have to send it away as it has all our personal stuff and all our passwords stored in a Word Doc. I guess now hubby will make sure the PC's are networked and I will put a password on the word docs, quicken and medical info from now on.
This is so agravating and exasperating, a new machine I spent good $ on so this would not happen.
Now does anyone have a clue what else may have happened? TIA _________________ Don't fuss about growing older, many are denied the chance. |
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Cohiba Prince
Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 1721 Location: A tabbaco plantation
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Need more info.. Did it power off, did the monitor just go blank.. explain went black..
Could be a easy power supply, could be your monitor went.. _________________ Smoke-em if you got-em I do.. |
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alpha_fruit Prince
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 5804 Location: Western North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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I was reading and the screen went blank, the message on the monitor said "the monitor is going to sleep now". The PC never was able to power up again, the HP Tech made hubby jump through hoops doing all kinds of things. The monitor is fine it is only 3 weeks old and it came up everytime the PC was rebooted. With the analog thingy in the corner and the sleeping notice.
Is that enough info?
Can you update tonight or until I can get into my working PC? TIA _________________ Don't fuss about growing older, many are denied the chance. |
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Cohiba Prince
Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 1721 Location: A tabbaco plantation
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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Probably the same hoops the tech did but there were not power lights on the PC?
No fan noises nothing?
Sounds like possibly Power Supply.. Didn't you have one go recently also? You have a power issue at your house? You running 150,000 christmas lights or something? _________________ Smoke-em if you got-em I do.. |
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alpha_fruit Prince
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 5804 Location: Western North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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Hubby said he heard fan noise when the PC tried to start, but then dead silence. The light at the on button was on and the 2 CD drives tried to start. I have APC's on all my PC's cause of small brown outs.
No the other PC was at the rental house when the power supply went. _________________ Don't fuss about growing older, many are denied the chance. |
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Fart in your gen direxion I am the goatse.cx guy
Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 2022 Location: Regrettably for you, I'm Upwind in Upstate N.Y.
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Check to see if rodentia crawled into the power supply .
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Cohiba Prince
Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 1721 Location: A tabbaco plantation
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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hmm can only guess if your getting power and drives light up then it does leave just the motherboard, video card, or monitor. But usually if a video card or MB bite the big one you'll hear some sort of error code beeps.
Also yes i'll do updates what were your days? _________________ Smoke-em if you got-em I do.. |
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alpha_fruit Prince
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 5804 Location: Western North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Monday and Friday, but I hope my PC will be fixed by Friday, I will keep you informed. Thanks for the help. _________________ Don't fuss about growing older, many are denied the chance. |
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Tenebra Prince
Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 2053 Location: Somewhere in the Outer Rim of a Galaxy far far away
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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If lights come on then it means that the power supply works.
If it is the power supply, then there is a chance the hard disk might be damaged too. Sorry about this, but had it happen to the main server at work. Power supply burned and one of the two disks was damaged beyond repair. Fortunately I had a mirror on the second disk so no data loss.
If it is the motherboard, then you need a new motherboard and you might need to reinstall everything, from windows to the programs etc.
I would advise you to have two disks, one where your programs and windows are, and one to keep all your files, with a periodic backup on CD/DVD of the most important data you need.
I have that actually, and also an external hard disk. (Okay I am a bit of a computer freak and have 650 Gb in total in the 3 HDDs) _________________
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Cohiba Prince
Joined: 13 Jul 2004 Posts: 1721 Location: A tabbaco plantation
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Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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What running raid 5 with a hot spare isn't a computer freak.. _________________ Smoke-em if you got-em I do.. |
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A Shrubbery Prince
Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 1861 Location: Pacific NW
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Could be anything with those symptoms.
Well, not quite anything.
In the order I would suspect them:
Motherboard
Power Supply
Drive (floppy, CD, or Hard Drive)
keyboard
(less likely, but possible)
CPU
RAM
video card
mouse
USB device
poltergeist.
Disconnect everything you can from the motherboard and attempt to boot it. I'm sure the PC guy is trying this as we type.
Good luck. _________________ A Shrubbery for Prez. Let's put more bushes in the whitehouse.
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alpha_fruit Prince
Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 5804 Location: Western North Carolina, USA
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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My new baby is back home, the motherboard went bad. _________________ Don't fuss about growing older, many are denied the chance. |
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Frank the Historian Prince
Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 781 Location: Up North, Down East
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Glad to hear it's home again! If it happens again, and you're worried about sensitive data, you could always swap the drive to another computer or into an external enclosure and access it as a secondary drive. Assuming the drive isn't damaged, you could easily copy or remove any important or sensitive files!
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