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My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« on: January 05, 2006, 10:29:07 am »
Here is some pics of the insides everything looks plugged in correctly.
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2006, 10:29:30 am »
and here
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2006, 10:31:44 am »

Did you just pull that from the harbor?
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #3 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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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2006, 10:34:10 am »
You might have the wrong spiderweb on the bios.
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2006, 10:35:49 am »

It's refurbished by Dell New Orleans.
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #6 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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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #7 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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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #8 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.
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2006, 12:35:12 pm »

How is that cancer in your leg?
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2006, 12:56:30 pm »
Quote from: Edgedamage on January 05, 2006, 10:29:07 am
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
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #12 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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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #13 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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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2006, 07:58:42 am »
Quote from: 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

Yeah. Same trick that applies to most blondes in general. Blow hard.
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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #15 on: January 06, 2006, 10:09:58 am »
Amen brother.

Quote from: 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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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #16 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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Re: My computer wont boot any suggestions?
« Reply #17 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."

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