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Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:38 am
by Hard Sarge
looks like I lost my computer this morning when I got home from work
can't even get to where it reads the Boot drive to try reinstalling the OP
good start to my Vaction
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 10:53 am
by Dixie
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
looks like I lost my computer this morning when I got home from work
can't even get to where it reads the Boot drive to try reinstalling the OP
good start to my Vaction
Sod's law eh? At least you'll have something to do on your holiday now [:D]
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:53 am
by Nikademus
sounds like its time for a new hard drive.
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 12:07 pm
by Peter Fisla
Hey Hard Sarge,
If I may ask: can you power it on ? (is power supply working at all) When you power on what do you see on the screen, does it go through the book sequence ? If nothing and assuming you have a desktop you might want to take out all the cards and put them one by one (only the minimum like video cards/ make sure hard drives are connected well) and go from there. Could be the memory as well...try taking them out and put one stick in at the time. Hard drive is not necessarily lost unless it was starting to make some weird noises before the computer went down...just some suggestions
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:00 pm
by harley
Again, Ron? What the hell do your dogs do to the computers when you are at work?
You've had more computer crashes in the years I've know you than Gordon Brown has had public relations fubars.
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:58 pm
by Nikademus
FYI too Sarge, your Matrix PM box is full.
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:34 pm
by Peter Fisla
ORIGINAL: harley
Again, Ron? What the hell do your dogs do to the computers when you are at work?
You've had more computer crashes in the years I've know you than Gordon Brown has had public relations fubars.
LOOOOOL!!!! [:D]
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:44 pm
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: Dixie
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
looks like I lost my computer this morning when I got home from work
can't even get to where it reads the Boot drive to try reinstalling the OP
good start to my Vaction
Sod's law eh? At least you'll have something to do on your holiday now [:D]
yea, go blind on my laptop
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:47 pm
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: Nikademus
sounds like its time for a new hard drive.
not the HD, to be honest I think it is microsoft, it all started going bad with all of the vista updates , mine is a XP, i think they screwying thing up just a bit, to make it have trouble ( most of the updates don't want to install)
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:49 pm
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: Peter Fisla
Hey Hard Sarge,
If I may ask: can you power it on ? (is power supply working at all) When you power on what do you see on the screen, does it go through the book sequence ? If nothing and assuming you have a desktop you might want to take out all the cards and put them one by one (only the minimum like video cards/ make sure hard drives are connected well) and go from there. Could be the memory as well...try taking them out and put one stick in at the time. Hard drive is not necessarily lost unless it was starting to make some weird noises before the computer went down...just some suggestions
the Dell XPS screen comes up, get the fill box about 1/3 of the way (it is 1/3 when it pops up) and just hangs there with the fans running
I was hearing some clicks, but thought that was from the Vid Cards (that is the main issue) (or was)
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:51 pm
by Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: harley
Again, Ron? What the hell do your dogs do to the computers when you are at work?
You've had more computer crashes in the years I've know you than Gordon Brown has had public relations fubars.
can't disagree with you there, but really seemed to have bad luck with this one, crossfire vid cards were worthless, most of the crashes sound like they are linked to the vid cards
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 3:53 pm
by Hard Sarge
hmmmm looks like it has room
cleaned some up
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:20 pm
by HMSWarspite
ORIGINAL: harley
Again, Ron? What the hell do your dogs do to the computers when you are at work?
You've had more computer crashes in the years I've know you than Gordon Brown has had public relations fubars.
Nice to know our politics makes press in US these days...
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:53 pm
by Derfel
The clicking sounds you hear MIGHT be from the Harddrive trying to read a damaged sector that your OS need to boot.
If you can get into the BIOS (ESC or F1), then you have a chance to get a Linux live disk running that MIGHT repair that damaged sector.
Hopefully you have a good backup of the data that is on the disk.
A good quote in the IT Support:
Real men do not take Backup... Real men cry a lot.[8D]
edited for typos.
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:11 pm
by Hard Sarge
hmmmm, I switched HDs around and I hang at the same spot, so, I not sure I even getting the HQ/OS
kid is going to take it to work in the morning, to let them look at it, then make up my mind as to what I got to do
hmmmmmm, where the hell is my extrenal drive at ? normally I can see that when I am sitting here, that is the one i need
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:58 pm
by Hard Sarge
ahhhh, funny, found it, I moved it so it was closer to the fan, to keep it cooler, where I had it, the computer blocked it off and it would get pretty hot
I hate this stuff
redownload my FTPs, got to relink all of the beta and alpha sites back to it
lol, wife driveing me nuts, can I have some meds, I gave them to you this morning, yea, i know, i want some more )
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:09 pm
by joey
Aren't computers fun?????? And they said they would make our lives easier!
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:17 pm
by Peter Fisla
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
ORIGINAL: Peter Fisla
Hey Hard Sarge,
If I may ask: can you power it on ? (is power supply working at all) When you power on what do you see on the screen, does it go through the book sequence ? If nothing and assuming you have a desktop you might want to take out all the cards and put them one by one (only the minimum like video cards/ make sure hard drives are connected well) and go from there. Could be the memory as well...try taking them out and put one stick in at the time. Hard drive is not necessarily lost unless it was starting to make some weird noises before the computer went down...just some suggestions
the Dell XPS screen comes up, get the fill box about 1/3 of the way (it is 1/3 when it pops up) and just hangs there with the fans running
I was hearing some clicks, but thought that was from the Vid Cards (that is the main issue) (or was)
Ok so it's the Dell boot sequence that fail. Have you done any hardware changes to the system recently ? Anyways try this: reboot the computer and go to bios, assuming you can get of course. Once you are in then simply re-save the configuration and exit the bios and reboot. Once it boots see if it hangs again...if yes then there could be a hardware conflict. Check if you have too much dust inside the computer, perhaps the case fans are not working well, perhaps the video card is too dusty. Make sure that CPU as the heat sink properly attached. It could be also the hard disk has failed...
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:28 pm
by Hard Sarge
Can't get to the Bios, hangs too fast
no, no changes
the inside heat has been good, got a program that watches that, the cards looked good/clean
(of course, the next one, I wanted to look into water cooling, just in case)
(only, didn't want to be looking at one this early)
(ahhhhhh, I was down to the last battle for Dragon's Age II)
RE: Looks like i may be done for a bit
Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 7:44 pm
by Peter Fisla
ORIGINAL: Hard Sarge
Can't get to the Bios, hangs too fast
no, no changes
the inside heat has been good, got a program that watches that, the cards looked good/clean
(of course, the next one, I wanted to look into water cooling, just in case)
(only, didn't want to be looking at one this early)
(ahhhhhh, I was down to the last battle for Dragon's Age II)
You can time it...reboot the machine I keep hitting the F2 (think that's the bios key). Just keep pressing the F2 key multiple times as soon as you reboot...
Are you sure that the CPU/Video cards fans are ok ? did you check ?