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Wife's Computer Won't Start -- Any Ideas?
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:24:27 -0600 Too Much Ying and you will Pay With
Yang then jim evans sent this : My wife's computer won't start. It's a 4 year old homebuilt SOYO K7VTA Pro and a AMD 1.3 gHz Athlon. It's been running with no problems for over a year and only a couple of minor problems before that. Here's the background. A few days ago she started complaining to me that her computer was losing time. As I understand it this happened in big jumps -- like sometimes the clock simply stopped for a while. Sometimes a long while, like overnight. She rarely reboots her computer. It runs all the time, so since she never turns it off it never needs to be reset by the CMOS clock. Since we were going to be out of town today, she shutdown her computer last night. When we got home tonight it was hung/frozen in the shutdown. She tried to turn it off by holding down the power button, but this didn't work. She then tuned off the power switch on the back of the computer. After she turned it back on it will not start at all. The power light does not come on. It's like a lead brick - *nothing* happens. Any suggestion on what to look at/try? -- jim Cheap option 1st.Buy and replace the CMOS battery.Usually a 2032 and you can get them from Wallmart/Asda -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...m?bandID=88558 |
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Wife's Computer Won't Start -- Any Ideas?
jim evans wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:00:18 +0000, Shepİ wrote: Thanks for replying. Cheap option 1st.Buy and replace the CMOS battery.Usually a 2032 and you can get them from Wallmart/Asda Can the CMOS battery cause problem when the computer is on all the time? -- jim I agree with the earlier poster to switch the CMOS battery as a first step. It's cheap and easy. I've had weird things happen when that battery needs replacing. If that doesn't fix the problem, then the PSU would be the next most likely source of the problem. |
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