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is my computer broke?

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by derfschaved

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i power up my pc and it does its usual startup, then the screen goes black like it is going to start windows, like it always does, but the screen stays black and it does nothing. what can i do?

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by peconet tietokoneet

Check ALL connections to your monitor, keyboard, mouse.
Check your power supply it might be going.
If possible get a new power supply and see if your computer boots correctly with it.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

that your video card is bad, or not making connection to the motherboard. If you boot into BIOS can you read that?

by nexs

That the screen 'Went' black, leading to that it must have had something beforehand.
If the card wasn't connected to the board (or was a bit on/off) then the black screen at the windows startup would be too coincidental for me to 'buy it'.

by boxfiddler Hot topic

when it went. Shut it down, fired it up again, boom. PC fires up, hear things whizzing, black screen.

by seanferd

Purring like a kitten? Humming along? Ticking over?

I gotta tell ya, though, that my computer was whizzing quite a bit until I cleaned the fans.

If this is inappropriate, onomatopoeia coinage is required.

by ansugisalas

on the electric fence... also not on the computer's power supply.

I had a computer go like that too.

That's what I miss about the old desktops - I miss building them myself, picking out a nice cabinet/power supply combination, Mobo, processors, cards, disks... and all of it, with the principle of "only third+ revision stuff".
Worked...
Harder to do with these tiny things - and I haven't the nerve for it, yet.

I have this laptop propped up on two textbooks ("The noun phrase" by Rijkhoff and "Number" by Corbett), because it otherwise overheats, it's fan facing downwards, it's grate being only partially perforated. I'd underclock it if I could find the original documentation... but five moves have done a job on my paper trail.

by santeewelding

That sounds interesting. Is it anything like the Fiction Author's Guide to Poisons?

by cg it

I want to give out those wonderful single word answers...

please help. no!

is my computer broke? yes

Concise, and to the point.

by ansugisalas

On the typological category of number.
Stuff like singular, plural, dual, trial, paucal (lesser and greater) etc.
Gramatically and lexically. On nouns and verbs, in congruence, conjunction etc.
Typological follows from Joseph Greenberg, looking into the world's languages, to see what they do in the same way, and which things follow from which. Fun stuff.
English is quite exotic, actually, freaky even.

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