• Computer suddenly died
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Last night, I turned my computer on to meet a black screen. So I tried to switch out monitors with an older monitor to no avail, so I checked the back of it, turning it on and off in the process. Then I realized that it wasn't POSTing when I was listening to it. I can also hear the hard drive trying to something then stopping. So I was wondering if someone could help me pinpoint what's wrong with the computer, thanks in advance. Specs: E2160 Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor \ 2.5 GB DDR2 RAM \ 250 GB harddrive, SATA \ Windows Vista Home Premium \ Nvidia GeForce \ nForce (can't remember the model numbers).
What do you mean by "Trying to do something"? The first thing I thought of was maybe a hard drive failure of some sort, like the HD spins up but ultimately fails and shuts off due to maybe a hard drive controller board defect or something of the like. It can happen, trust me. Then again as I think about it, you said it won't even get to POST. ... Maybe that's the motherboard? Open up your computer's case and look at the motherboard. Look at the capacitors (look like small batteries standing upright on it) and see if the tops are busted/bulging/leaking/etc. Also to rule out a GPU problem, do you have any other things to test with? Like another GPU or perhaps an onboard chipset to test with? One last suggestion would be power supply issues. It's not receiving enough power for some reason. That's all I can give.
Power supply, motherboard or processor. I'm leaning more towards the power supply because the other two don't suddenly fail.
I believe from what he said by "Trying to do something" was the drive spinning up. However, this is ruled out because he cant even complete POST (Quit calling it POSTing, its not a fucking verb). If you have any lights on your mainboard, or even the front LEDs.. see if it seems like the computer is turning off when the drive starts to spin up. The PSU could just be old and not be pushing out the current it used too.
bahaha *POST* ZING! and If its not the PSU then sounds like the HDD to me, newegg has some HDD deals going on [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?bop=And&Submit=DailyDeals&N=40000014[/url] and a deal on a PSU, but i doubt you need this much wattage. [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371032[/url]
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