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Post by Amy on Apr 26, 2008 20:03:39 GMT -5
I'm so freaking mad. There shouldn't be anything wrong with it, but it won't boot.  I wanted to play. |
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Post by ŞíŘ on Apr 26, 2008 20:07:09 GMT -5
Apparently I'm exerting the "Chuck Norris Effect" on your computer. It is so intimidated it refuses to boot.
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Post by Amy on Apr 27, 2008 17:43:39 GMT -5
after a roundhouse kick to the head (read: I got mad and kicked the case) its working perfectly. $2 says it was something not seated properly.
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Post by Amy on Apr 29, 2008 21:18:04 GMT -5
I was in last night and again tonight. Computer crapped up- bad memory module perhaps? Crashed hard core. CSS quit, then locked up the compy leaving steam open. It was beyond a hardcore boot- I had to turn off the power supply to reboot it. It struggled to reboot and get up- VERY slow. (minutes where it should be at most 30 seconds). *sigh* I just built it last June so don't even suggest that I should think about getting a new computer- its too expensive at this point.
This blows. Chim and Urb were in, where were the rest of you?!!!?
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Post by Chim on Apr 30, 2008 7:43:36 GMT -5
That was pretty fun until you disappeared. =(
Sounds like it could be motherboard or ram... =/ What kind of ram do you have? I can check my spare ram to see if it'll match.
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Post by Jayne, The Hero of Canton on Apr 30, 2008 16:26:39 GMT -5
Could be hard drive, RAM or motherboard. I would diagnose in that order. If you can, boot from a CD/disk. If it boots fine, its probably just your windows installation. Could also be your hard drive. Hard Drives are the only mechanical component in a computer (except for cooling), and are most likely to respond to a physical kick. RAM almost never becomes unseated (unless a monkey installed it) and usually fails completely when it fails at all. The hard drive is more likely to cause intermittent problems like the problems you're having. www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/If you have another computer handy, make yourself a bootable OS CD. If it boots fine, your RAM is fine (since these pre-installed environments rely heavily on RAM), and probably means your motherboard is okay to. My money is on bad HD or corrupt install. Cheers, -Jayne PS. If it turns out to be the hard drive, check your cable. I've seen it happen more times than I can count where a hard drive is replaced only to find out its a bad IDE/SATA cable. Those things are fairly brittle, especially at the connectors. |
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Post by Chim on Apr 30, 2008 22:49:32 GMT -5
It can't be software. If she had to turn the PSU off, then it wouldn't turn on because there was still a charge in the capacitors on the motherboard - so something physical was preventing it. I'd still think it was a mb or ram. If there is any clicking noises, then I'd go for a hard drive. But most of the time in my experiences hard drives go out and you know it.
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Post by B8 on May 1, 2008 4:57:53 GMT -5
Try unseating the ram and reseating it. IF it still messes up then remove one of your two video cards. It could be a freak power supply problem from an overload.
As for the hard drive going bad. good luck as you will know it when it quits altogether.
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Post by Amy on May 5, 2008 8:27:16 GMT -5
*sigh* is there an alternative to memtest86 that doesn't require a floppy drive? .... I don't have a floppy drive.
ETA: I guess they've updated with the times they have a CD version of it. I'm going to burn it instead of waiting for Matt.
Chim: My memory is Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz 240-pin DDR2 Memory if its memory I'll be buying new stuff.
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