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Okay, so my desktop refuses to boot. Last night, I decided to give my PC a rest for a bit, and turned it off. This morning, I turn it on and it's not outputting a video signal. I'm not getting any error beeps or anything, and I've tried booting with/without all of my USB stuff plugged up to it, all to no avail.
This hasn't happened to me before. I'm sure there's a simple fix, but I can't figure it out.
Specs:
ASUS motherboard (unsure of model off the top of my head)
Intel Quad Core Processor
4 GB RAM
nVidia 8800GTS video card
and some sort of Mushkin PSU
If you can give me any ideas to try, I'm all for it. If not, I'll have a friend of mine look at it in a few days.
Formerly LJHSGamer.
Does the computer get power at all? Can you hear fans spinning or anything? If you don't hear anyhting than have the power supplied checked. If you do hear something than the it could be a whole range of problems.
Nope, the fans come on; I can see them spinning (the side of my case is clear). I'm not sure if it's a problem starting with the motherboard, the hard drives, or the disc drives; I don't hear anything else activate, and there aren't onboard speakers or anything like that so I don't get any error beeps.
When you boot the machine, is your rigs work light flash as its loading up?
If you feel; comfortable opening up your case, try reseating your video card, ram, sound cards, hard drives and so on. If that doesn't work remove the aforementioned parts one at a time and try to boot them without them seated so you can diagnose if you have a bad part. .
/Lurking mode activate.
The difficult is easily done; it's the impossible that takes a little while
i suggest you try it on another monitor... if it doesn't work on that monitor either, then its probably your motherboard or graphics card... if it doesn't work on another monitor i suggest you take it to bestbuy's geek squad or a trusted PC repair shop to have them diagnose the problem...
You find the line by crossing it...
Zmagnum: I was planning on running through a check like that soon.
Reconrier: My setup's a dual-monitor display, and I tried swapping them and whatnot to no avail.
Off I go to take it apart, I guess. Luckily, I just got a set of very, very tiny screwdrivers. Guess it's time to use them.
When you fire up the Computer do your fans ever spin at super high speed almost like a jet engine? I had this problem with my Dell Desktop. Turns out the capacitors on the motherboard had bulged and leaked. When you open the case take a look at the tops of the Capacitors (they should be perfectly flat, most have a cross on the top of them to better view the flatness). In case you do not know what a capacitor looks like just google it. Otherwise they are cylinder shaped and some are rather large and usually lined up in rows. otherwise it would have to be the vid card or possibly your bios is corrupted. If you have a backup video card (maybe a friends you could borrow for a test) or onboard video try that out.
good luck to you
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Fans spin at the same speed they always have, but I'll check out the capacitors in a sec. I can grab my videocard from Ye Old eMachine and see what happens to it.
Just got done resetting the my original video card; no luck. Took out the RAM, and the same thing.
Means it's not getting far enough to check for the RAM. >_<
EDIT: No luck on the capacitors. Or, well, I should say there is luck on the capacitors. Whatever. What I mean is that they're just fine an dandy, if not a little off-center, but none are bulged.
My PC is dusty as hell, though. That's never stopped anything from booting. Gonna pick up some compressed air tomorrow.
I was going to take the hard drives out, but I'm very put off by the fact that they're 2.5" HDs. In a desktop. The cost-to-space ratio for 2.5" has never seemed okay with me, so I don't see why the guy I got this thing from would spring for them. Oh well.
This is random, but Flash player is being really strange and is crashing Mozilla as well as Chrome randomly. Yes I have tried reinstalling the browser and Flash. Any other suggestions?
Delete System 32, it will solve it all plus increase you speed at the same time.
rhion180: Delete System 32, it will solve it all plus increase you speed at the same time.
Do not listen to this tart. You never want to delete anything from system32.
Does it do it on the same site or on different ones. It could be the flash content on the site is leaking or has an unhandled exception.
Could you guys help me out here? I have been trying for like a week but I can't connect to my friends in Modern Warfare 2 Special Ops mode co-op for PC. I can connect to friends just fine in regular multiplayer just not spec ops. Is anyone else having this issue?
To put it bluntly, It Broke. The Co-op on PC is broken badly and is in need of patching.
PS3 version had issues too. Makes you wonder which version is the lead SKU... hmmmm, I mean theirs a limited edition MW2 xbox, but it's hard to say....