[beatspete]

My computer has died.  It froze while my dad was using it, when he restarted it it didnt come on again.  Yes i've checked its plugged in.
It switches on, but doesnt load anything, just a blank screen.
Thank god my other computer still works, or i wouldnt be posting this.
Anyone else experienced this?

pete

[Unknown Target]

Check to see if the power supply blew, happens to me a lot. Also, take everything out and re-seat them, that might work.

[an0n]

You've either fried your BIOS, your boot-up thingy or your monitor.

Does it make all the whirry-beepy-buzzing sounds or does the little power light just come on.

[Thorn]

couldve fried the video card too.. or the memory.... or your processor.. or the riser card its one (thats if its on one...)

[an0n]

Maybe you should just make a video of your computer starting up and put it up for DL, then we could help ya fix it better.

[beatspete]

Ok...
When you start it up, the hard disk light stays on, but the power doesnt.  It makes the sound of the fan whiring around, thats it.  Nothing comes on screen, no beeps or loading rumbles.  If you try and switch it off, you need to use the Mains power button on the back, the normal one does nothing.

There wouldnt be much to see if i filmed it.

[Unknown Target]

Oh, that happened to me just last night. Reseat everythin, maybe n a different slot if you want, and it should work

[Petrarch of the VBB]

The same thing happened to me a year or two ago on a machine that I built, turned out that the motherboard was totally FUBAR.

BTW, is yours AT or ATX?

[an0n]

Maybe you should just dig a nice big hole and lay the poor machine to rest. A nice silicon tomb-stone, some copper flowers and an inscription saying "Intel Inside".

[Stealth]

If the hard disk light stays on it could be your hard drive or motherboard.

if it doesn't make any beeps or anything then it's not the video card.

also, it could be the powersupply... what powersupply do you have, and try hooking both your computers up next to each other, and switching parts...
like, exchange the hard drive on the computer that works from the computer that doesn't... etc.

don't switch motherboards or powersupplies unless you know what your'e doing

[IceFire]

So the front switch does not work but the back one gives you some sort of sound for a quick second.

Ok....well that power up for a few seconds is because you have an ATX case no doubt and every time you reinstate the power it jumps on for a second.

With ATX, you never turn it off on the front.  You just signal the power supply to turn the computer power off.

Anyways, it may be a broken switch on the front even.

[beatspete]

i dont think its an ATX case, since im not sure what one is.

I've thought about swapping round the hard drives to the other PC, but i'll have to leave that for the weekend.
Although do i really want to plug something thats just killed its owner into a new, healthy PC?


And to clarify... the front switch does work to switch on, but the machine stays on with just the HD light lit up, untill you have to switch it off at the back (the front button doesnt switch it off now, but it normally worked).

[vadar_1]

Originally posted by beatspete
i dont think its an ATX case, since im not sure what one is.

I've thought about swapping round the hard drives to the other PC, but i'll have to leave that for the weekend.
Although do i really want to plug something thats just killed its owner into a new, healthy PC?


And to clarify... the front switch does work to switch on, but the machine stays on with just the HD light lit up, untill you have to switch it off at the back (the front button doesnt switch it off now, but it normally worked).

first of all the front switch usually deals with a soft shutdown - dealing with software to turn off your computer once its running, so if somethings not working that switch is useless. If your HD light turns on, its not your powersupply... a screwed power supply would mean nothing would happen. hard drives are irrelevent until the bios calls for them... if the bios dosn't run its not the hard drives... theres is a really good chance you fried your motherboard or processor.... both are quite expensive to replace.

[Blitz_Lightning]

Most likely your CMOS battery ran out or died... try replacing that...

[NotDefault]

My computer is dead, too, and it's the motherboard's fault.  

[delta_7890]

I like an0n's idea.  

[killadonuts]

This happened to me once.
The problem was the DIMM chips weren't in their slots all the way.

[Stealth]

Since you don't know what type of case it is... do this:

take the cover off your PC case...

no look at the front power switch... does the switch lead to the motherboard or to the powersupply?

If it leads to the powersupply, then it's the powersupply that's the problem (since you can only turn the computer off from the main switch of the power supply)

if it's connected to the motherboard, then it could be the motherboard or the power supply... but probably the motherboard, since on those cases the motherboard controls the computer's boot and shut down.

which one is it, we'll take it from there

[Stealth]

Originally posted by vadar_1


first of all the front switch usually deals with a soft shutdown - dealing with software to turn off your computer once its running, so if somethings not working that switch is useless. If your HD light turns on, its not your powersupply... a screwed power supply would mean nothing would happen. hard drives are irrelevent until the bios calls for them... if the bios dosn't run its not the hard drives... theres is a really good chance you fried your motherboard or processor.... both are quite expensive to replace.

The front switch may deal with the soft shutdown, but it depends which case it's in... and what motherboard.

if the front switch is connected to the motherboard, then it's probably the motherboard that's giving problems... if it's connected to the power supply, then (well, check the post above this)