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Argh! Got computer from storage and it's not working
shmokes:
Dammit! I've had belonging sitting in a storage container (think Pods) for almost exactly a year, since I left Miami. I've just moved into a new apartment in D.C. and finally had the thing shipped to me. Amazingly everything is exactly as we packed it. No significant shifting. Nothing damaged.
But I got my computer, which worked perfectly fine before, all set up and it won't turn on. Or, rather, it fires up--fans come on, hard drives and optical drives spin up, but the computer won't post. It never sends a signal to the monitors, the USB keyboard doesn't initialize. And, worst of all, no beep codes!
So far I haven't done anything other than I pulled off all the superfluous accessories and reseated the ram. Neither helped. So irritating, especially after I just finished unloading all my stuff (including the heaviest arcade cabinet on planet earth) and lugging it up multiple flights of stairs.
Jammin0:
Could be a bad hard drive. I just pulled a PC out of storage and it turned on but powered down minutes to seconds later. Luckily I figured out pretty quickly that the heatsink had come loose and wasn't tight on the processor, clamped her back down and no thermal shutdown now.
Good luck.
SavannahLion:
Check those caps too. My old job has a PC in cold storage. Bored and assigned to a job for four hours and completed in 15 I decided to see what, exactly, was on the PC. Pulled it out of cold storage, let it warm up for a bit and fired it up... and nothing. Fans were spinning but not a whole lot else. Did the usual and finally pulled open the case. Caps had burst like a bunch of grapes. Weird crystaline formations so it's been like that for a while. Not a pretty sight.
Tried to explain to the boss the PC wasn't being stored properly and needed repairs/replacement but got the cold shoulder. In a bizarre ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up twist of legal crap, they have to keep the PC exactly as it was when it was stored. Nothing against you shmokes but those legal ---uvulas--- don't know how to preserve anything more sophisticated than a clay tablet.
Howard_Casto:
Check your CMOS battery. It can cause all kinds of stupid POST errors.
PCs need to be stored at room temperature for the record.... all electronics do.
danny_galaga:
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