PC help please...
My PC won't boot. I turn on the power and the PC fires up, but neither monitor wakes, so I can't see if the boot menu appears. There doesn't look to be much hard drive action either.
Is it all royally f**ked, or just part of it?
Posted By: Yellalee on February 27th 2012 at 17:44:53
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- PC help please... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:44:53
- seen this loads of times Lee (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:13:24
- Really? I'll give that a go in a bit then... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:20:53
- yep, really - power out, power on, power back in, power on (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:29:25
- Nah, didn't work... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:31:04
- Could press and hold the power button for a minute or so (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:39:30
- Did you keep the power pressed in until the fan stopped turning? (n/m) (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:37:43
- At what stage? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:46:19
- Fan wouldn't be turning when I press for 20 secs, no? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:46:48
- Fan will turn until power is gone completely (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:50:56
- Fan wouldn't be turning when I press for 20 secs, no? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:46:48
- At what stage? (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:46:19
- Nah, didn't work... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:31:04
- yep, really - power out, power on, power back in, power on (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:29:25
- I forgot about doing that. Think I used to do that on an old white pc (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:15:29
- I first heard about it from some Indian guy at Dell when I was working for the NHS (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:19:27
- I'd think normally that 3-4 years isn't that old for a pc, but I do find with modern usb (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:28:10
- Unsure about the links thing. You mean links in my message body? (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:29:02
- I'd think normally that 3-4 years isn't that old for a pc, but I do find with modern usb (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:28:10
- I first heard about it from some Indian guy at Dell when I was working for the NHS (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:19:27
- Really? I'll give that a go in a bit then... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 18:20:53
- And I've taken one monitor out of the graphics card slot, and plugged into onboard (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:47:57
- You had a monitor in the graaphics slot??? Jeez, I don't know a lot about computers but (General Chat) - CB41, Feb 27, 17:53:54
- Old pc? (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:47:36
- 3-4 years (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:48:15
- Have always assumed this to be a motherboard problem (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:53:07
- Also, you could turn it on and do something else for 10 minutes or so (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:55:20
- Yeah, left it on for a bit now. It's had symptoms... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:57:47
- Yeah, it's going to happen more often then (it's probably the motherboard slowly failing) (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 18:06:50
- Yeah, left it on for a bit now. It's had symptoms... (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:57:47
- Also, you could turn it on and do something else for 10 minutes or so (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:55:20
- Have always assumed this to be a motherboard problem (General Chat) - pants, Feb 27, 17:53:07
- 3-4 years (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Feb 27, 17:48:15
- seen this loads of times Lee (General Chat) - Karnivore, Feb 27, 18:13:24
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