I was using the computer the other day and it was making a sound like the fan was running non stop. The next day we went to use it and it would not power up. We tried replacing the power supply, what happens when we turn on the power supply, the fan inside makes a slight jerk, and the power button on the tower blinks yellow for a split second. But nothing starts up. The monitor light is yellow. Will I be able to recover my data or is all hope lost. Any help to get this working again would be greatly appreciated.
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Computer will not power up
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Johnthephoneguy
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Your data is on the HD and may or may not be okay, but most likely would be recoverable. If you have replaced the HD it sounds like you might have a MB problem. if the problem is limited to the MB then your HD would be okay. it really depends on what happened to cause a problem.
JohnThePhoneGuy
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dixiebova
Important things first!
Remove the hard drive and carefully examine the PCB and chips for burn marks (just in case)
Hook the drive up as "slave" in another system, see if it is detected, copy over your important data.
Now tackle the PC itself.
Take back to bare bones, Motherboard/CPU with cooler/one stick of ram/graphics card if not onboard and a good power supply.
Pull off all the headers, remove all cards
Clear the cmos (usually a jumper situated on the motherboard near the button battery)
Momentarily touch the "pwr" power header pins, with a small flat blade screw driver.
Get a POST first, then start connecting other things one at a time (power down and remove wall socket each time)
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Important things first!
Remove the hard drive and carefully examine the PCB and chips for burn marks (just in case)
Hook the drive up as "slave" in another system, see if it is detected, copy over your important data.
Now tackle the PC itself.
Take back to bare bones, Motherboard/CPU with cooler/one stick of ram/graphics card if not onboard and a good power supply.
Pull off all the headers, remove all cards
Clear the cmos (usually a jumper situated on the motherboard near the button battery)
Momentarily touch the "pwr" power header pins, with a small flat blade screw driver.
Get a POST first, then start connecting other things one at a time (power down and remove wall socket each time)
Martin
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jediwarrior
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Hi all,
I have a problem that I am not sure about. I'm working on a friends computer, and it wouldn't boot up correctly, so I formatted the hard drove and reloaded Win XP. they hooked everything else including the internet.
Now they are getting a pop up from "Messenger Service" that keeps telling them all these things like there are 55 critical system errors, contact and the system registry is corrupt and needs immediate action contact "tocleanpc.com, and another pop-up saying to contact I find it hard that there is a problem since I just formatted and installed XP on their system.
I hooked up PC Cillin and load Spybot on their system,and ran those but found nothing. and the errors come up ALL the time. Does anyone know what this problem is? and what is this 'Messenger Service'?
Thanks...Jediwarrior
I have a problem that I am not sure about. I'm working on a friends computer, and it wouldn't boot up correctly, so I formatted the hard drove and reloaded Win XP. they hooked everything else including the internet.
Now they are getting a pop up from "Messenger Service" that keeps telling them all these things like there are 55 critical system errors, contact and the system registry is corrupt and needs immediate action contact "tocleanpc.com, and another pop-up saying to contact I find it hard that there is a problem since I just formatted and installed XP on their system.
I hooked up PC Cillin and load Spybot on their system,and ran those but found nothing. and the errors come up ALL the time. Does anyone know what this problem is? and what is this 'Messenger Service'?
Thanks...Jediwarrior
Jediwarrior,
How about starting a new thread? Hijacking this one creates confusion.
Dixiebova,
Martin has given you the steps to diagnose the problem but you need some further information so you understand why you take those steps. The conditions you describe indicate that your repkacement power supply is doing a "crowbar shutdown" because something in the system is drawing too much power. Sometimes it is the power supply but often it is the M/B or hard drive. Failing power supplies too often kill the motherboard. So taking it to the m/b only will test for that. Then as you add items back into the mix between reboots you try to find the faulty part.
If you find the M/B at fault your choices may be limited to recover of data with the drive as a slave in another machine.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
How about starting a new thread? Hijacking this one creates confusion.
Dixiebova,
Martin has given you the steps to diagnose the problem but you need some further information so you understand why you take those steps. The conditions you describe indicate that your repkacement power supply is doing a "crowbar shutdown" because something in the system is drawing too much power. Sometimes it is the power supply but often it is the M/B or hard drive. Failing power supplies too often kill the motherboard. So taking it to the m/b only will test for that. Then as you add items back into the mix between reboots you try to find the faulty part.
If you find the M/B at fault your choices may be limited to recover of data with the drive as a slave in another machine.
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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