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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 04, 2011, 09:10:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: CCM on November 04, 2011, 05:21:53 pm ---It may not be that idiotic depending on how old the computer is and how much you will have to pay someone to look at it.

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--- Quote from: shmokes on November 02, 2011, 04:40:30 pm ---
My computer's only about 1.5 years old and it's all quality parts which were, as I mentioned, working perfectly befor I stored them.


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Yeah, the advice is idiotic. And the added eye roll, like, duh . . . when your computer stops working you just buy a new one, adds hilarity to the idiocy. It's like someone posting about a part going bad on their Harley rendering it inoperable and giving them advice to just buy a Yamaha scooter because they're so inexpensive. Stupidity. Hell, even if my current machine and the chintzy one ark linked to were similar in horsepower (they're not), I'd still prefer to get mine going then to get a barebones one, install an OS, configure everything, install Office and the Creative Suite and a dozen other apps just to get it basically functioning.

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Time will tell if it's idiotic advice. If you put no value on your time or it is fixed quickly and it ends up being a no to low cost item to fix then you are the winner. If it takes a long time to fix and/or an expensive or hard to item has failed you will have wasted time and will still need to spend money.

What complicates matters further is you didn't specify the specs of the computer which would have given a clue as to how old the computer was. Heck, we don't even know if it's a laptop. I've seen computers get replaced because they had spyware and were too old to justify spending 30 minutes trying to get working. I've had computers which were old, but the data they contained was so valuable I spent an inordinate amount of time getting them functioning again.  I've seen people replace computers simply because they couldn't find parts, even though it was an easy fix (laptops are good for this).

Good luck getting it going. Ignore the advice from people if you don't think they are being constructive, but posting more info will be helpful for those who are trying to help you.

Funnel:
Did you check the caps around the CPU? My PC was doing the same thing you described. Took a look at the caps and bam! Two of them were effed up. They may look like this:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on November 06, 2011, 07:08:48 am ---Time will tell if it's idiotic advice. If you put no value on your time or it is fixed quickly and it ends up being a no to low cost item to fix then you are the winner. If it takes a long time to fix and/or an expensive or hard to item has failed you will have wasted time and will still need to spend money.

What complicates matters further is you didn't specify the specs of the computer which would have given a clue as to how old the computer was. Heck, we don't even know if it's a laptop. I've seen computers get replaced because they had spyware and were too old to justify spending 30 minutes trying to get working. I've had computers which were old, but the data they contained was so valuable I spent an inordinate amount of time getting them functioning again.  I've seen people replace computers simply because they couldn't find parts, even though it was an easy fix (laptops are good for this).

Good luck getting it going. Ignore the advice from people if you don't think they are being constructive, but posting more info will be helpful for those who are trying to help you.

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The advice is idiotic, but honestly I don't just automatically point out a person's stupidity just because they do something stupid. ark has a history of being obnoxious, and his post here fits his MO.

I realize that I didn't explicitly say it's a desktop, but I did discuss reseating the videocard, running multiple monitors, replacing the battery/jumping the clear CMOS jumper, reseating the processor, reseating the videocard, shorting the power supply and checking the leads, etc. I can't imagine that anyone who knows anything about servicing a PC had any question whether we're talking about a laptop or a desktop.

As for the specs, it's an ASUS P6T motherboard with a Core i7 920 processor and 12GB of RAM (6 x 2GB). It's got an ATI HD 4870 video card, 5 SATA hard drives and a couple of optical drives on the IDE channel.

No matter how you slice it, buying a new computer would be FAR more expensive (to buy an equivalent one) and probably far more time consuming too (cos the OS and applications would have to be set up from scratch). Anyway, the case is super nice. Even if I decided to buy a new computer it would make sense to just populate this case with new parts. In that case (no pun intended), since I already have this current computer with very good parts (aside from whatever one is broken), it only makes sense that I would reuse what I have and just buy the new part(s) I need. Which would be, of course, just fixing my existing computer.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 07, 2011, 07:46:28 am ---ark has a history of being obnoxious

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Can't argue with that.

Back on topic, what have you tried and have you had any luck yet?

CCM:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 07, 2011, 07:46:28 am ---

12GB of RAM (6 x 2GB).



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Have you pulled all the ram chips but one?  That would have been the first thing I tried...  Leave one in and if it boots, add them back one at time until you run into an issue.

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