2009-11-30, 02:42 AM
Well, I left this PC off for 4 days, (for my wonderful break) and it took a good 35 minutes to get to where it would boot up.
Some of you remember the RAM adventures I had earlier in the year. (the best part of that was figuring out it WAS the ram. What fun!) ....and the symptoms are similar, but not the same.
It almost acts like its a power supply problem... where I'd hit the power button and it would either:
1) Power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
2) CD-ROM drives boot, floppy drive boots, power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
3) Boots, during the boot... screen goes blank. power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
4) Boots, says there's a keyboard error. Makes it to the login screen. Can't type. Reboot-power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
5) Boots up, I log in, makes it to the desktop then... darkness. Everything is off again. Power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
I did experience one "ram error" type freeze.... but I swapped RAMs again, tried one ram stick, blew out the PC dust bunnies (which weren't many because I blow them out often), unhooked and re-hooked cords....
It seems a random fluke its working again. I didn't solve anything because I didn't do anything. The only things I did were the above "cleaning" and switching out some cords and power strips (switching power supplies around) but none of the above solved the problem. The PC just booted up this last time.
The caps on my motherboard look fine.
The clock - date/time is correct.
Some hardware specs:
OS is Windows XP SP3
RAM 1024MB
Dell Dimension 4500
2GHz Pentium Processor
Nvidia GeForce 6600GT Video Card
Any ideas, at least from the description(s) I gave? I'd hate to lose (what's on) this computer, as I have important things to do next year with it. >_<'
All inputs would be greatly appreciated.
Some of you remember the RAM adventures I had earlier in the year. (the best part of that was figuring out it WAS the ram. What fun!) ....and the symptoms are similar, but not the same.
It almost acts like its a power supply problem... where I'd hit the power button and it would either:
1) Power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
2) CD-ROM drives boot, floppy drive boots, power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
3) Boots, during the boot... screen goes blank. power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
4) Boots, says there's a keyboard error. Makes it to the login screen. Can't type. Reboot-power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
5) Boots up, I log in, makes it to the desktop then... darkness. Everything is off again. Power light on monitor and PC turns yellow. The end.
I did experience one "ram error" type freeze.... but I swapped RAMs again, tried one ram stick, blew out the PC dust bunnies (which weren't many because I blow them out often), unhooked and re-hooked cords....
It seems a random fluke its working again. I didn't solve anything because I didn't do anything. The only things I did were the above "cleaning" and switching out some cords and power strips (switching power supplies around) but none of the above solved the problem. The PC just booted up this last time.
The caps on my motherboard look fine.
The clock - date/time is correct.
Some hardware specs:
OS is Windows XP SP3
RAM 1024MB
Dell Dimension 4500
2GHz Pentium Processor
Nvidia GeForce 6600GT Video Card
Any ideas, at least from the description(s) I gave? I'd hate to lose (what's on) this computer, as I have important things to do next year with it. >_<'
All inputs would be greatly appreciated.
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