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Title: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
Post by: Edgedamage on January 05, 2006, 10:29:07 am
Here is some pics of the insides everything looks plugged in correctly.
Title: Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
Post by: Edgedamage on January 05, 2006, 10:29:30 am
and here
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Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 10:31:44 am

Did you just pull that from the harbor?
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Post by: Goz on January 05, 2006, 10:33:15 am
Dust is a great conductor. I'm really surprised it isn't working better than a system in a clean room.
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Post by: JoyMonkey on January 05, 2006, 10:34:10 am
You might have the wrong spiderweb on the bios.
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Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 10:35:49 am

It's refurbished by Dell New Orleans.
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Post by: Edgedamage on January 05, 2006, 10:44:36 am
Just kidding I found these pics on another forum. But a coworker found out that  I build/fix computers and asked me if he brought his pc into work could i look at it. He brings in the pc the next day and says it runs ok for a few mins then he hears a beeping from inside the case. I open it up and it was worse than the pics I posted the cpu fan was a spinning hairball. I brought it in the room we use to dust off machines with compressed air and the room was filled with dust in seconds.
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Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 10:45:44 am

The correct answer to "do you know how to fix PCs" is always NO.
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Post by: Harry Potter on January 05, 2006, 12:29:20 pm
Solved the problem. Just leave the side cover off.

Haven't had any dust problems in six months. Although my breathing is now a bit harsh.
Title: Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
Post by: ChadTower on January 05, 2006, 12:35:12 pm

How is that cancer in your leg?
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Post by: Harry Potter on January 05, 2006, 12:36:10 pm
Nice. Moving up to ---my bottom---, slowly but surely.


Actually, I did have to leave the side cover off. The damn video card generates so much heat, the fans go nuts. And I'm too cheap to buy a new case.
Title: Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
Post by: c64rulez on January 05, 2006, 12:56:30 pm
Here is some pics of the insides everything looks plugged in correctly.

Just sneeze (ferociously) into it and it will be as good as new
Title: Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
Post by: Harry Potter on January 05, 2006, 12:59:26 pm
There's a few bits in Home Alone, in which the bad guys look like they sneezed into that case.
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Post by: missioncontrol on January 05, 2006, 02:06:42 pm
maybe you need to do the same trick I apply to my atari cartriges when they don't work
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Post by: c64rulez on January 06, 2006, 07:58:42 am
maybe you need to do the same trick I apply to my atari cartriges when they don't work

Yeah. Same trick that applies to most blondes in general. Blow hard.
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Post by: Santoro on January 06, 2006, 10:09:58 am
Amen brother.


The correct answer to "do you know how to fix PCs" is always NO.
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Post by: Harry Potter on January 06, 2006, 01:30:30 pm
I can fix them at $60 an hour.

Worked well excpet one time. At least I came out of it with $600  ;D
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Post by: duffjr on January 06, 2006, 05:43:11 pm
"Can your son come over to install my router?"

"Sure, I'll just install the software and be done."

"No ethernet cable?  Let me run to the store and get one.  No ethernet port?  Let me go buy a card...No surge protector?"

2 hours later...(whispering)"How much should we pay him?"   "20?"  "Is it right to pay him?" 

"Well, here's $20.  I know gas is expensive for you kids these days."