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Hard Drive won't start up
Name: paulaflanagan Date: April 14, 2004 at 11:32:35 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
Anyone help ? Someone plugged one end of a usb cable into a Windows 2000 laptop while it was running and the other into my XP pc while I was working on the pc. The result was the pc shut down instantly and won't start up again. On start up the cd and dvd drives light up, the moniter light comes on and goes amber. No beeps and no hard drive startup. Any ideas ?
Name: angrymen2001 Date: April 14, 2004 at 11:57:51 Pacific
Reply:
My guess would be a 5V line to a 5V line which may have blown your PS. If you have a spare PS, I'd try there and #^%$& slap the person that did that to you!!!!!
When all else fails, beat the %*#$! out of it!!!
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Response Number 2
Name: paulaflanagan Date: April 14, 2004 at 12:33:26 Pacific
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Not being very well up on the hardware end of things, can you tell me the steps I need to go through, and by PS, does that mean power supply ? Pardon my ignorance, I'm a programmer by trade ! Ta loads !
Paula
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Response Number 3
Name: angrymen2001 Date: April 14, 2004 at 17:54:37 Pacific
Reply:
yes that's a power supply
When all else fails beat the $%!* out of it!!!
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Response Number 4
Name: paulaflanagan Date: April 16, 2004 at 02:19:57 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for all the help and advice, folks. Someone up there likes me, 'cos when I turned the machine on today after being off for a day, it powered up and worked fine ! No spookie messages, no weird stuff, so I think I'll just keep the pc in a locked room from now on ! Thanks again.
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