I woke up this morning and windows acted as if it were in standby or
hibernation mode (I didn't put it in this mode), the blue light on the
front of my HP was blinking and the screen blank. I moved the mouse
and hit a couple keys and the computer did not respond. I then hit
the blue blinking button to make the computer shut down and hit it
again to reboot. Absolutely nothing happened except the light was
still blinking and the screen was still blank. I did this several
times and now when I try to boot up the blue light is not even coming
on. This is a new computer that I just installed the SP2 to. What
the heck is going on and how do I make it boot????
"Absolutely nothing happened except the light was still blinking and the
screen was still blank."
If the power supply fan didn't go on, the hd's didn't spin up, no single
beep, I'd say either the power supply, or the motherboard.
Come to think of it, I just cleaned up a system that did the exact same
thing. I left it on overnight and when I got up in the morning, it was in a
'hibernation-like state', the LED was on on the front, and I had to hit the
power button to restart it, which it never did.
After leaving and coming back a couple hours later, it then turned on. On
this PC, I suspect the power supply went into thermal shutdown due to
overheating. The wife's PC did the same thing, would just shut off, then
wouldn't turn back on. A power supply fixed this one as well.
Typically, this would be a power supply issue, but I threw in the
motherboard possibility because I recently fixed a 6 month old Dell that
did the same thing, nothing at all would turn on, and it was indeed the
motherboard.
Unfortunately, the owner's spoke with Dell support first, which is
understandable, at which point they told them they thought it might have
been caused by a electrical storm that rolled thru the area. With that
said, Dell refused to honor any warranty and told them it would cost at
least $200 ( + shipping) for Dell to fix it, either problem.
One thing, which I couldn't believe Dell had them do over the phone, was to
re-seat the CPU in the socket !!! and walked them thru it. Needless to say,
I had to fix 3 rows of badly bent pins when I replaced the motherboard.
One other note about Dell. Many people aren't aware of this, but Dell often
auction's off new part's to other resellers, which you can get at a
substantial saving over buying them right from Dell. The motherboard I
replaced the old one with was an original Dell motherboard, EXACT same
model which I found online, thru PriceWatch, for $50, brand new, never
opened. In another case, my former boss is one of those 'I'll only buy from
Dell' idiot's. In quoting a new rackmount server system, which I could have
built for slightly over 1/2 of what he paid, saving $3000, one of the
required items is a set of rails that you need to actually mount the server
in a rack. Dell calls them Rapid-Rails. Anyway, Dell sells them for $249 a
set. Unbelievably, I was able to convince my former boss to not buy them
from Dell but from another place I found online, for $50 w/shipping. Brand
new, never used, still in the original Dell box.
So whatever the case, look around, and yes I know you said it was an HP.
HP, Dell, Compaq, Gateway.....there all the same.
Regards,
DanS
Regards,
DanS
