My puter took a Dump

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:41 pm

My puter took a Dump Evil or Very Mad

has been acting up last couple of weeks finally gave out on me,i power it on and tower lights, lite up but monitor stays blank and cpu donsnt boot up,i have to figure out what broke down on me and fix it,so it might be a couple of days or week for me to find out whats wrong and order online a new part so i wont be on the battlefirld for a bit, all i have now is my laptop and it couldnt handle bf2142 Crying or Very sad

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:58 pm

Sorry to hear mother..

Before you do anything, try resetting CMOS.. Usually done by taking out a small round and flat battery on the mainbord (remember to unplug the power cable before doing it) and then try inserting it again.. Works sometimes, otherwise, if it doesn't say a thing I'd say it's the mainboard.

Try taking everything out of it and power it up (cpu, ram, hd's, dvd/cd drives etc) and see what happens, then plug in the cpu, and power up.. Step by step, until you find the quilty part..

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:02 pm

well hard to say if its a software or hardware issue.... if it's been running bad for awhile you probably had errors in your bios - registry.

Maybe the errors eventually got so bad it doesnt want to boot... It could also be as simple as a bad power supply. You know the watts? What video card u running?

What I do in a situation like that... I have an extra HD sitting around that I installed windows on. I switch out my hard drive with my backup. If it boots up fine then it's a software problem. If it doesnt it's probably a hardware issue.

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:17 pm

video card is a Radeon X1600PRO 512MB ..the video card motherboard and cpu and tower and power supply i bought at a puter show last august who knows it could have been some refurbished junk.but a couple of months back i bought an electric space heater, for the room i have my cpu in and i have been frequently tripping the breaker maybe 1 to many power suges caught up with me,about a week ago the cpu would just suddenly crash and reboot itself

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 2:47 pm

well thats a monster video card and probably sucks monster power. If your card is under powered or overheats it's common for the pc to reboot itself automatically. You might take the power supply out and take it to a local computer parts store (not walmart, something more specialized than that) and I bet they could test it for you. I would have at least a 500w for that kind of setup.

When you boot up do u see anything at first or is it black the whole time?

First Sergeant (1SG) Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 293

nice video card. mine is soooo ooooooooooooooolddd
i should go buy a new one. I love to walk in computer store full of geeks and have them drool over the uber expensive computer thing i buy and my cleavage haha.

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:11 pm

LOL AYA,
yeah my monitor is just blank Spastic,there is a little icon at top of monitor that keeps blinking between digital and anolog.i guess cause its not getting a signal .the power supply is 500w the video card was my first pci express card so i dont have a old 1 to throw in and test out..i would think if it were the hard drive.i could at least get to the bios,boot up menu.if it were a dead ram stick same thing i get power and fans kick on so cpu should be allright so it either has to be mainboard or graphics i guess.hate to spend $ on parts i dont need,and hate even more to pay for some1 to tell me whats wrong

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:01 pm

ya i was hoping for an easy fix for you but i think your right.

First Sergeant (1SG) Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 293

sgtMOTHER wrote:

LOL AYA,
yeah my monitor is just blank Spastic,there is a little icon at top of monitor that keeps blinking between digital and anolog.i guess cause its not getting a signal .the power supply is 500w the video card was my first pci express card so i dont have a old 1 to throw in and test out..i would think if it were the hard drive.i could at least get to the bios,boot up menu.if it were a dead ram stick same thing i get power and fans kick on so cpu should be allright so it either has to be mainboard or graphics i guess.hate to spend $ on parts i dont need,and hate even more to pay for some1 to tell me whats wrong

are you sure your power supply isnt dead? i had this problem, changing the power supply helped. (took me like an hour to change it for the first time Laughing

(stole it from my bro's work comp - good to have 3-5 spare comps laying around)

Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 9:43 pm

i dont thinks its power supply because the case fans kick on and tower lights up,hopefully i can figure it out soon, because im starting to go through gaming withdrawl symtoms, getting cold sweets,slashing in the air pretending im knifing some1,diving on the floor and popping up quickly,that 1 is starting to hurt and an urge to ban some noobs Crying or Very sad

First Sergeant (1SG) Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Posts: 293

sgtMOTHER wrote:

i dont thinks its power supply because the case fans kick on and tower lights up,hopefully i can figure it out soon, because im starting to go through gaming withdrawl symtoms, getting cold sweets,slashing in the air pretending im knifing some1,diving on the floor and popping up quickly,that 1 is starting to hurt and an urge to ban some noobs Crying or Very sad

lol. yea i didnt read your previous post careful enough, was like 5 am for me or something.

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:12 am

dowload adaware for sytem scan and deletion of errors i use every day and its free. dr, livo can give you web address or aya i think might help big time

Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:26 pm

Just got a new graphics card and installed it,cpu is working again. now i must go and knife some biatches

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

LoL ive seen pc's nto turn on for some funny as reasons man...like the last pc i built, the power supply like 1/4th broke, jsut enough so that it would give enough power for the mother board to power on the video card..but enough to boot everything but the VC and cd dives >..< put a new 1 in, started up liek a charm, also my pc would start until i plugged the audio wires for the port jacks on ym cae...pretty fuxed up man...