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Dead PC
Name: jo75 Date: November 15, 2008 at 01:12:09 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: not sure Product: Acer
Comment:
Last week I connected my pc to LCD 32inch tv. It was working fine for a couple of hours then the pc just switch off and rebooted. It then got to the login screen then would reboot again, this happened a few time until I switch the pc off and left it for 24 hours. I switched the pc on and it would only go as far as the login page then reboot again.
I have since cleaned the fan as it was quite ditry but now the pc will not start at all. When I turn the tower on it makes no beeping sound but the fan is now quite noisy, the harddrive light and power light is showing.
Name: scuzzy wuzzy Date: November 15, 2008 at 01:54:06 Pacific
Reply:
Have you done F8>SAFE MODE on boot up(after post)?And if that does not work do F8 again and select Disable Automatic Restart on System Failure.Then you should see a blue screen and record the error message and the error code(record any file name too)
I also have a Dell Dimension 8100 with normal xp sp3,1.5ghz P4,20GB hd,256MB,cd-rom and cd-rw(also floppy drive and a Geforce 2 MX agp graphics card)
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Response Number 2
Name: jo75 Date: November 15, 2008 at 02:07:38 Pacific
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I can not even get it to start up since I cleaned the fan. The hard drive does not boot up at all and the screen stays blank. I have tried it with the tv & the old monitor
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Response Number 3
Name: aegis Date: November 15, 2008 at 14:25:51 Pacific
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I hope you didn't clean the fan with a vacuum cleaner. They can cause a static discharge that will fry electronic components. A can of compressed air should be used.
If you didn't ZAP something, the power supply is the most likely part to fail and easiest to swap.
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Response Number 4
Name: KevinS. Date: November 15, 2008 at 18:00:59 Pacific
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