Computer shat the bed today

[smilinjack 0]

Bizarre really- screen just went off and then nothing, fan was running, couldn't actually turn it off. Long story short, looks like the mobo or CPU is toast. Spiked the HDD so I can't recover a lot of stuff. Back on my old XP tower unit now but shitloads of catching up & recovery to try & do. All I can say is thank fuck I don't have a gas oven-I've about had enough one way or another.

[lee1 1]

have ya tryd a big hammer,it worked on my last pc

[Stue11 0]

Its not been your month as it mate as they say surely things can only get better

[smilinjack 0]

You can't keep a good man down-in a rare moment of forward planning I had bought a second tower unit like the one that crapped out. Fitted my defunct drive and after a long time the autorepair feature actually worked! Why it didn't do so when I tried another tower unit is beyond me, and frankly my dear I don't give a damn. I've got all my pics & emails & other shit I hadn't backed up so it's a happy ending. Back of the net

[Davehutch-hutchs 0]

@smilinjack wrote:

You can't keep a good man down-in a rare moment of forward planning I had bought a second tower unit like the one that crapped out. Fitted my defunct drive and after a long time the autorepair feature actually worked! Why it didn't do so when I tried another tower unit is beyond me, and frankly my dear I don't give a damn. I've got all my pics & emails & other shit I hadn't backed up so it's a happy ending. Back of the net

[Grumpyowl 0]

@smilinjack wrote:

Bizarre really- screen just went off and then nothing, fan was running, couldn't actually turn it off. Long story short, looks like the mobo or CPU is toast. Spiked the HDD so I can't recover a lot of stuff. Back on my old XP tower unit now but shitloads of catching up & recovery to try & do. All I can say is thank f**k I don't have a gas oven-I've about had enough one way or another.

I have no Idea what your talking about but sure you'll sort it.

Is It Carb Icing

[firehawk 0]

i hate XP. My laptop has been away for 3 weeks being repaired and is back tomorrow. In the mean time, I've been using my old knackered acer running XP. It's sooooooo slow in comparison and freezes every so often.

[stantheman 0]

thats very brave of you mate sending it away with that much porn in its memory

[smilinjack 0]

Just been trying to find what went wrong. I've reassembled the old unit with a sacrificial hard drive but it won't boot. Fan comes on straightaway but no little beep, no BIOS screen. Looks like a shagged mobo. Ah well, I've now got a few spares. Nice SATA optical drive & USB card reader etc.

[firehawk 0]

@stantheman wrote:

thats very brave of you mate sending it away with that much porn in its memory

aha, but i'd backed the porn up and done a full re-install before sending it away. It might still be deep in there I suppose but oh well. I just hope it comes back without white stains on the keys

[trebor4460 0]

@smilinjack wrote:

Just been trying to find what went wrong. I've reassembled the old unit with a sacrificial hard drive but it won't boot. Fan comes on straightaway but no little beep, no BIOS screen. Looks like a shagged mobo. Ah well, I've now got a few spares. Nice SATA optical drive & USB card reader etc.

CMOS battery flat, try new battery and reset with jumper on motherboard

Any beep codes at all?

Power supply maybe?

[smilinjack 0]

Power supply checked in another machine, worked no problem. Did wonder about the CMOS backup, prob worth a bit of a look.
Having said which it happened during operation, normally CMOS failures occur on startup.

[peejay 0]

@smilinjack wrote:

. All I can say is thank f**k I don't have a gas oven-I've about had enough one way or another.

Shouldn't worry there mate, gas ovens are really very simple and don't generally break down, perhaps only the spark ignition but then at least you can always light it with a match