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micky
(Sorry for the duplicate)
Triple failures? Hard Drive Data? Hard drive? Video Card? CPU?
Power Supply?
Last night, when I was running, as I have for at least 6 years, a
home-built computer with 1.5Gig memory and an 800MHaz CPU. All PATA,
no SATA.
I'm ib a another computer now and don't have details about the broken
one, but I can probably find them.
I clicked Back on my Firefox3 and the compuer restarted.
(It got to the point where it urges me to run chkdsk, but I was in
the middle of something and skipped that. The screen went black (or
blue) as normal, but before any Windows screen showed up, it restarted
again.
This time it offerred me safe mode etc. but I chose regular. I let it
run chkdsk and all it reported were two lengthy errors in avg log
files. But when it got to the same place, it restarted again.
This time I chose Safe Mode with Internet and it started fine, and I
even retrieved a couple of things from Usenet.
I wanted to go back to regular mode so I restarted.
This time it only got as far as the memory count-off, and it stopped.
Normally it shows a grid about my hard drives and CD dirves.
When I pushed the restart button, it took me to the CMOS/setup page.
Looking there, I found in the Boot Order, for hard drive it was set to
None, and had only two options, None and Skip. But the CD options
were both of my CD drives. A network was set for the fourth place to
look even though I don't remember ever doing that.
In the first page of setup, I have all four possible PATA drives set
to Auto, so iirc there woudl be no indication there about what drive
it finds.
I Escaped out, checking, Don't save any changes. Usually that is
plenty on other times, once or twice a year, when I get kicked to the
Setup screen.
It only got to the memory count-off again, Reset again put me on the
Setup screeen.
Turning it off completely and restarting showed a black screen. Even
though the red light of one CD drive goes on for a moment (I didn't
see the second one's light)
The screen is black partly because the monitor never wakes out of
standby, and if I turn it off and back on, it displays a little square
in the middle of the screen which says, Standby, Wake with PC, or
something like that.
It was very low humidity last night so I guess it was hotter than I
thought, mauybe 85, and for the first time I had five Firefox Windows
open, with at least 100 tabs. I had turned the fan/temp monitor off
for the winter.
I would think I overheated the CPU but it did start fine in Safe Mode,
and I sort of think some other chip is responsible for the POST
routine.
Waited 6 and 15 hours and works no better than it did.
I have I burned out my CPU, my video card**, the harddrive, my power
supply?
**The video card has acted up 5 times ln the last year, with a red
colored ghost for each letter and lots of funny dots on the screen to
where it's impossible to read. . If I put the computer in standby for
even a couple minutes, it's been all right again for another 6 hours.
I have a back up of the hard drive, but of course it's tailored for
this computer. I'd rather fix this computer then try to copy piece by
piece from the harddrive only.
I can fix this if it's not the CPU, but helpful advice would be much
appreciated.
Thank you.
Triple failures? Hard Drive Data? Hard drive? Video Card? CPU?
Power Supply?
Last night, when I was running, as I have for at least 6 years, a
home-built computer with 1.5Gig memory and an 800MHaz CPU. All PATA,
no SATA.
I'm ib a another computer now and don't have details about the broken
one, but I can probably find them.
I clicked Back on my Firefox3 and the compuer restarted.
(It got to the point where it urges me to run chkdsk, but I was in
the middle of something and skipped that. The screen went black (or
blue) as normal, but before any Windows screen showed up, it restarted
again.
This time it offerred me safe mode etc. but I chose regular. I let it
run chkdsk and all it reported were two lengthy errors in avg log
files. But when it got to the same place, it restarted again.
This time I chose Safe Mode with Internet and it started fine, and I
even retrieved a couple of things from Usenet.
I wanted to go back to regular mode so I restarted.
This time it only got as far as the memory count-off, and it stopped.
Normally it shows a grid about my hard drives and CD dirves.
When I pushed the restart button, it took me to the CMOS/setup page.
Looking there, I found in the Boot Order, for hard drive it was set to
None, and had only two options, None and Skip. But the CD options
were both of my CD drives. A network was set for the fourth place to
look even though I don't remember ever doing that.
In the first page of setup, I have all four possible PATA drives set
to Auto, so iirc there woudl be no indication there about what drive
it finds.
I Escaped out, checking, Don't save any changes. Usually that is
plenty on other times, once or twice a year, when I get kicked to the
Setup screen.
It only got to the memory count-off again, Reset again put me on the
Setup screeen.
Turning it off completely and restarting showed a black screen. Even
though the red light of one CD drive goes on for a moment (I didn't
see the second one's light)
The screen is black partly because the monitor never wakes out of
standby, and if I turn it off and back on, it displays a little square
in the middle of the screen which says, Standby, Wake with PC, or
something like that.
It was very low humidity last night so I guess it was hotter than I
thought, mauybe 85, and for the first time I had five Firefox Windows
open, with at least 100 tabs. I had turned the fan/temp monitor off
for the winter.
I would think I overheated the CPU but it did start fine in Safe Mode,
and I sort of think some other chip is responsible for the POST
routine.
Waited 6 and 15 hours and works no better than it did.
I have I burned out my CPU, my video card**, the harddrive, my power
supply?
**The video card has acted up 5 times ln the last year, with a red
colored ghost for each letter and lots of funny dots on the screen to
where it's impossible to read. . If I put the computer in standby for
even a couple minutes, it's been all right again for another 6 hours.
I have a back up of the hard drive, but of course it's tailored for
this computer. I'd rather fix this computer then try to copy piece by
piece from the harddrive only.
I can fix this if it's not the CPU, but helpful advice would be much
appreciated.
Thank you.