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The Ferry Man

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TFM's Computer Issues
« on: March 19, 2010, 21:54:59 »
Hi All,

Just to let you know I am current;ly facing Major Computer issues, as my Main OPC seems to have died.

Started with a blue screen that restarted the computer, but took 10 minutes before it actually decided it would, then it crashed again, and it wouldn't load,  but now it just doesn't start at all - the fan comes on and that is it  :(

Coluldn't have come at a worse time ioether - my final work fir university due in three weeks  :-\

So I may not be on so much at the moment

(any ideas what could be wrong also appreciated  :-\)
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IRI5HJ4CK

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« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2010, 22:06:58 »
Hi Mark,

Could be wrong, but it sounds something like the 'Blue screen of death', but, as I say, don't take my word for that...Maybe somebody will be able to give you a definite answer :)

Sorry to hear about the problems...always terrible when something goes wrong, especially as you say, when you have work on it :-[
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The Ferry Man

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« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2010, 22:07:53 »
Blue screen of death...?

It had wrioting on it, and some thing that counted up to 100 before restarting?
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Captain Spencer

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« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2010, 22:09:58 »
Yes windows ecountered an error and stopped your computer from doing anything else. Then it probably created a dump file which is why it started to 'count'.

Have you tried booting in safe-mode??

Do you see a black screen with writing as soon as you turn the computer on?
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IRI5HJ4CK

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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2010, 22:10:28 »
'Blue Screen of Death': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death

As I say, I could be totally wrong...I assume you don't see Windows Startup or anything like that? I was going to suggest trying F8.

Jack.
p.s. see Adam beat me to safe mode! :lol:
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The Ferry Man

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« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2010, 22:13:43 »
The computer no longer starts up at all now - press the main power button, the fan starts up, but nothing happens - the red light that flashes when it does something doesn't light up at all, and nothing comes on the screen at all - remains on standby mode
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McGherkin

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« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2010, 22:23:12 »
Overheated?
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The Ferry Man

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« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2010, 22:30:20 »
I have had it off now for a few hours and still nothing  :-\
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bsm2003

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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2010, 00:05:00 »
Power supply has died.  If you have another lying around try it.
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Capt. Matt

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« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2010, 00:25:53 »
TFM,
Open up your computer look to see if there is tons of dust in it. What is it doing exactly?
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« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2010, 00:28:06 »
+ check if all the fans are working properly.

It could be that the motherboard went out.   Had the same problem some months ago due to dust in the fan above the processor.
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« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2010, 10:51:43 »
I had something like your problem,got someone in to fix it and found out it was a virus,maybe.
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The Ferry Man

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« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2010, 11:46:21 »
Thanks for the adviuce guys...

Currently she is in repair shop, apprently it could be hardwear failure and Windows Corruption  :-\

Could be fixed in four days after Monday  :'(
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Re: TFM's Computer Issues
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2010, 17:50:17 »
On my old comp the RAM memmorys did pop out so it coulent start.

Hope you will get it to work again  ;)
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clanky

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« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2010, 16:39:46 »
Hope you get it back soon.  More to the point I hope you get all your data back or even better, I hope you had all your data backed up?
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The Ferry Man

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« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2010, 20:34:53 »
Well heard today it was the Motherboard gone  :(

If that wasn't bad enough, the DVD-Drive was hardwired to that motherdrive, so I have to have a new case as well to get the Drive working

All my pictures are backed up onto CD, and my University Work is on a USB Stick

They say they are gping to back up my work...

Especially since one thing I didn't back up was my Ship designs...  :'(
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McGherkin

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« Reply #16 on: March 23, 2010, 20:51:21 »
Nasty! Let's hope everything can be saved  :thumbs:
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« Reply #17 on: March 23, 2010, 20:53:38 »
Quote from: McGherkin on March 23, 2010, 20:51:21
Nasty! Let's hope everything can be saved  :thumbs:

If the drive itself is OK you should be able to buy a caddy for around £15 to convert it to an external USB drive.
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« Reply #18 on: March 23, 2010, 21:16:39 »
Quote from: The Ferry Man on March 23, 2010, 20:34:53
Well heard today it was the Motherboard gone  :(

If that wasn't bad enough, the DVD-Drive was hardwired to that motherdrive, so I have to have a new case as well to get the Drive working

All my pictures are backed up onto CD, and my University Work is on a USB Stick

They say they are gping to back up my work...

Especially since one thing I didn't back up was my Ship designs...  :'(
really hope you get the models saved, you have some awesome models on there, which would be very sad if they were lost
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Re: TFM's Computer Issues
« Reply #19 on: March 23, 2010, 21:20:34 »
What can cause a motherboard to go..?
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McGherkin

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« Reply #20 on: March 23, 2010, 21:33:00 »
A couple of pounds of TNT and...



Your Motherboard's gone.
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Re: TFM's Computer Issues
« Reply #21 on: March 23, 2010, 21:34:24 »
Quote from: saltydog on March 23, 2010, 21:20:34
What can cause a motherboard to go..?

Lot's of things, power surges, faulty power supply units, other faulty hardware or cables ect.
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The Ferry Man

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« Reply #22 on: March 23, 2010, 22:13:32 »
Quote from: saltydog on March 23, 2010, 21:20:34
What can cause a motherboard to go..?

An apparent dislike to me...

This is the second motherboard that has gone...

The computer I had before this one had the Hard drive and Motherboard go about a week or so after I brought it...   :-\
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« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2010, 00:28:37 »
I repaired a blue screen of death last week ::) Fun task, was actually caused by a virus. Its quite strange that your dvd drive was hard wired directly to the mother board, i've never seen that before as normally they have interchangable data cables. Hopefully you have better luck in the future ;)
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saltydog

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Re: TFM's Computer Issues
« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2010, 00:35:35 »
Perhaps a surge-protector would be a good investment..
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