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Tracey R (Haley64) · #1 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

Can you imaging my surprize and all the other feelings

that go through a person when their most beloved toy and link to the world just decides not to start this morning!!

Right now I am on my old computer (thank God I still have it!!)

Last night I shut down as normal, everything seemed just fine last night..then this morning it is almost like my start button is dead!! My monitor will turn on, if I flick the toggle switch in the back of the computer, I can see lights for a few seconds but nothing!!
I tried my START button on my keyboard which is microsoft, cordless..does any one know if possibly dead batteries would do this?? I just thought of that!!
Bummer and it is the weekend and I can't get any help with it for two days!!

Has this happened to anyone? I do not believe or at least hope not that it is hardware failure...I've never experienced anything like it before so I do not know what it is!!!

HELP PLEASE!!!!!!

marnel · #2 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

to me, It was my Motherboard that went I had to get a new one.

It's better to have someone that knows about them check them out. Maybe yours could be saved I know mine wasn't.

They told me was it really worth it and most of my stuff would be lost. Oh well, So sorry to hear that maybe someone else has better news than me. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

~~Mary

Nevermore · #3 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

Haley, I feel your pain! I have seen you posting around so I don't think you are a computer newbie but just in case, have you tried checking out the outlet? ie. try plugging in to a different power source? Switch the keyboard and/or the monitor with your old computer? When you do toggle the on switch, is that just juicing the monitor or can you hear your hard drive engage (lights, fan, grinding?).

Seriously, kiddo, I don't know if any of the above will matter a hill of beans but at least you can advise whoever can help you that it isn't the monitor, it isn't the keyboard etcetera. To double check, try a few things in reverse ie hook up your new monitor to your old system after you try hooking up your old monitor to your new system. Ditto with keyboard and mouse. If all the peripherals work, then it sounds like the hard drive to me. One more thought...if you actually have the OS disk and not just an OEM version, try starting up with the disk in the computer just in case your puppy is having a hard time finding the system files etcetera.

Keep us posted!

Tracey R (Haley64) · #4 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

Wow..thought I replied to this thread...so much for my old computer..!!

Thanks for the advice, I had checked my power source and cables to make sure the ghosts in my house hadn't unplugged anything over night!! LOL
My Monitor is working, I did replace the batteries in keyboard and that didn't make a difference.
But I did call my puter guru and I ran it to him, just gotta love having a personal computer built for oneself..now he can figure it out but he said he didn't think is was anything that would make me loose any of my info!!!!

Now I just have to wait and see....tick tick tick, time will crawl by....

Tracey R (Haley64) · #5 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

Can you believe this, I drive my computer over 20 miles just a little over an hour ago. I was only home for about 20 minutes when the phone rang. It was my computer guy telling me that it started just fine for him the first time!!!!
Rebooted many times and works EVERY time...I tried over 20 times to get it to boot up!
Maybe I wasn't so far off the mark when I mentioned a ghost...this used to happen to my old computer once a year, it would start, but just very odd things would go goofy with it. I would run it to him and it never did them for him. We have laughed many times over the fact that my computer just wanted to go for a ride once a year, but please don't let this computer have the same condition!! None of this ever happened in any of my other houses...only this one and now with 2 computers.
Just like taking your car into the mechanic to get it checked out, it runs fine that day!!
It has to be some sort of an electrical field or something, maybe the train tracks that are about 1 mile from my house vibrates things..we don't know what causes it...if anyone has ever experienced this ???????? problem please let me know what it was!!!!
I feel like Charlie Brown...Good Grief!!!

Nevermore · #6 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

Again, I think I know what you are feeling--that huge happy feeling that all your stuff is okay and your computer is fine at war with that what the heck happened total exasperation.

Since the latter seems a total mystery, can only congratulate you on the former. You must be relieved!

kimlizzy · #7 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

I had that happen on my first computer. I bought it, brought it home, plugged it in. All seemed fine. Turned it off and went out to do some grocery shopping. Came home, turned it on and...........nothing. Turned out the Power Supply pack inside the computer was faulty.

Peachy · #8 (**permalink**) 03-12-2005

Doodoodoodoo (Twilight Zone) LOL