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    is my computer broke?

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    by derfschaved ·

    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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    • #2868343

      Clarifications

      by derfschaved ·

      In reply to is my computer broke?

      Clarifications

    • #2868317

      Check your connections…..

      by peconet tietokoneet ·

      In reply to is my computer broke?

      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.

    • #2868295

      Could be faulty boot sector of HDD (nt)

      by nexs ·

      In reply to is my computer broke?

      .

    • #2868287

      It could also be

      by boxfiddler ·

      In reply to is my computer broke?

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

      • #2868281

        They’d mentioned

        by nexs ·

        In reply to It could also be

        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’.

        • #2868279

          That’s what mine did

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to They’d mentioned

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

        • #2868278

          Some other word, please

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to That’s what mine did

          Besides, “whizzing”.

        • #2868277

          Well, it wasn’t

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to Some other word, please

          whooshing.

        • #2868275

          Whirring?

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to Well, it wasn’t

          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.

        • #2868268

          I was a’gonna do that

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to Whirring?

          But you handled it ever so much better.

        • #2868212

          Don’t whiz

          by ansugisalas ·

          In reply to Whirring?

          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.

        • #2868208

          “Number”

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to Whirring?

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

        • #2868201

          when I see the please help or is my computer broke

          by cg it ·

          In reply to Whirring?

          I want to give out those wonderful single word answers…

          please help. no!

          is my computer broke? yes

          Concise, and to the point.

        • #2868186

          Monograph

          by ansugisalas ·

          In reply to Whirring?

          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.

        • #2868142

          Hence…

          by boxfiddler ·

          In reply to Whirring?

          stuff like this…

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