---HELP! PC is dead!!---
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:38 pm
after my mouse behaved very strangely (scrollable contents flickered up and down, without a chance to click at a specific point), I thought it would be a good idea to reboot. But as the mouse didn't let me choose "shutdown" from the WinXP dialog box, I guess I have signed off as Admin first, then managed to really shutdown by using the keyboard (didn's work properly before either).
After the shutdown, I tried to reboot the machine, but it remained in a sort of suspended mode. Means: that the power and HD LED was working, but nothing else, not even anything displayed on the screen (the screen looked as if it didn't get any signal from the computer). Switching to other input sources showed me something "computer is in hibernation mode. To reactivate, please press any key, hit the power button on your computer or move the mose". Nothing of this worked. Several "cold" reboots had the computer remaining silent after it shortly powered on, checked the 2 DVD drives, but nothing more.
Opening up the machine, cleaned out the processor fan and the rippled part underneath it, checked some cables' fit (everything seemed OK), reconnected the computer to the power source again (without anything attached to it, by the way) just to see if the computer was now able to boot further than only up to the DVD drive check. After about 15 seconds, it switched off by itself, without me doing anything.
Took the PC back to its original place, connected everything back on and switched it on again. After 5 seconds, it seemed that something smelled strangely. Me switching off the PC very quickly now. And now, nothing works, not even a single fan would start to rotate, no beep codes whatsoever (I am unsure if the internal speaker is connected, as I never hear any beeps at starting up).
As far as I can judge it: the problem could be the power supply, simply because the computer wouldn't even startup when powered on. But I have seen that there might be more reasons for a system not starting up. Only thing is that I cannot google with such a huge description like I have now written. Did anyone from you have such a problem before? What did you do to resolve it?
I mean: before wasting hours and hours exchanging all parts (I don't have any spare parts to test with them either) or even buying new parts without knowing what really is causing the machine not to start, there might be someone having **THE** idea. What I could read in different forums was that either power supply, mainboard, RAM or even the processor could be the source of the trouble. With a defective mainboard, mostly also defective electronic parts (condensators??) appear (they look like they've been "bursting"), but nothing like this is visible on my mainboard.
I also read that I could carry my machine to a PC doctor who will check everything by measuring if there's power running through the different parts of that machine...
Right now, it only looks hopeless to me. Hopeless not only because of a "dead" machine, but also because of not being able to do anything about it.
Hey, something else: several posters also wrote that after having changed a defective mainboard, some or even most of the data is lost on the HD(s).... For me, that doesn't sound logical, as a defetive mainboard that doesn't run anymore doesn't affect data on the HD....
Well, that's that. Any hints and help would be appreciated
After the shutdown, I tried to reboot the machine, but it remained in a sort of suspended mode. Means: that the power and HD LED was working, but nothing else, not even anything displayed on the screen (the screen looked as if it didn't get any signal from the computer). Switching to other input sources showed me something "computer is in hibernation mode. To reactivate, please press any key, hit the power button on your computer or move the mose". Nothing of this worked. Several "cold" reboots had the computer remaining silent after it shortly powered on, checked the 2 DVD drives, but nothing more.
Opening up the machine, cleaned out the processor fan and the rippled part underneath it, checked some cables' fit (everything seemed OK), reconnected the computer to the power source again (without anything attached to it, by the way) just to see if the computer was now able to boot further than only up to the DVD drive check. After about 15 seconds, it switched off by itself, without me doing anything.
Took the PC back to its original place, connected everything back on and switched it on again. After 5 seconds, it seemed that something smelled strangely. Me switching off the PC very quickly now. And now, nothing works, not even a single fan would start to rotate, no beep codes whatsoever (I am unsure if the internal speaker is connected, as I never hear any beeps at starting up).
As far as I can judge it: the problem could be the power supply, simply because the computer wouldn't even startup when powered on. But I have seen that there might be more reasons for a system not starting up. Only thing is that I cannot google with such a huge description like I have now written. Did anyone from you have such a problem before? What did you do to resolve it?
I mean: before wasting hours and hours exchanging all parts (I don't have any spare parts to test with them either) or even buying new parts without knowing what really is causing the machine not to start, there might be someone having **THE** idea. What I could read in different forums was that either power supply, mainboard, RAM or even the processor could be the source of the trouble. With a defective mainboard, mostly also defective electronic parts (condensators??) appear (they look like they've been "bursting"), but nothing like this is visible on my mainboard.
I also read that I could carry my machine to a PC doctor who will check everything by measuring if there's power running through the different parts of that machine...
Right now, it only looks hopeless to me. Hopeless not only because of a "dead" machine, but also because of not being able to do anything about it.
Hey, something else: several posters also wrote that after having changed a defective mainboard, some or even most of the data is lost on the HD(s).... For me, that doesn't sound logical, as a defetive mainboard that doesn't run anymore doesn't affect data on the HD....
Well, that's that. Any hints and help would be appreciated
