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My power light is red and it blinks
Name: El-Trucha Date: September 25, 2004 at 13:18:48 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: 1.4 GHz/480 MB
Comment:
Hello every1!! OK...2day I was installing Visual C# with the MSDN library on a virtual machine...it was all ok, until I got a low disk space warning...so I went on 2 free up some space, ok, when I tought I had enuough disk freed, I continued it and came 2 my laptop 2 browse the Internet... But when I was writing a post in this same forum, my other PC just shuts down!! o_O When I go see, the power light was in RED and it was blinking each 2 seconds!! That light is usually green and it's on all the time... I clicked on the power button 2 times so it will restart... When I go on Windows again, I go on my drive with low disk space, and I only have 54.something MB!! I freed up like 1 GB!! WTF is wrong with it?!! I NEED HELP PLZ!!!!!!! I'm scared!! :'( Thanx 4 ur help!! ;)
Name: ham30 Date: September 25, 2004 at 13:41:09 Pacific
Reply:
To start with, run scandisk and empty the Recycle bin. Also consider a new (bigger) hard drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: sarahhh Date: September 25, 2004 at 14:34:20 Pacific
Reply:
"my other PC just shuts down!! o_O When I go see, the power light was in RED and it was blinking each 2 seconds!!"
What happened there was that your PC went to standby (power-saving) mode, which switches off the monitor, and flashes the power light (in a different color if it was dual-color).
Do what ham30 suggested, and post back what happens.
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Response Number 3
Name: El-Trucha Date: September 25, 2004 at 14:46:04 Pacific
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ham30; I ran "chkdsk /f" kuz I have WinXP and it doesnt have ScanDisk...:( It said that it'll scan it the next time it restarts, so I'll restart now...I'll tell u when it's done...;)
sarahhh; No, the standby usually puts my light GREEN and blinking, I never saw it red before...and also, it "comes back alive" when I move the mouse or touch any key... This was different...:(
Thanx both of u!! ;)
El-Trucha
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Response Number 4
Name: sarahhh Date: September 25, 2004 at 14:50:22 Pacific
Reply:
Hmm... that's odd...
I have no other suggestions, sorry!
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Response Number 5
Name: El-Trucha Date: September 25, 2004 at 14:54:47 Pacific
Reply:
ham30; Oops!! nvm, I put "chkdsk /f" and it scanned drive C:...now I put "chkdsk /f d:", which is the one with problems, and no errors!! ;) I'll check C: anyways now...
sarahhh; Np!! ;)
El-Trucha
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Response Number 6
Name: El-Trucha Date: September 25, 2004 at 14:58:20 Pacific
Reply:
Fixed!! ;) But umm...what could have happened 2 it??
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