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July 5, 2010 at 11:42 am #2212593
is my computer broke?
Lockedby derfschaved · about 13 years, 9 months ago
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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July 5, 2010 at 11:42 am #2868343
Clarifications
by derfschaved · about 13 years, 9 months ago
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July 5, 2010 at 2:00 pm #2868317
Check your connections…..
by peconet tietokoneet · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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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. -
July 5, 2010 at 4:27 pm #2868295
Could be faulty boot sector of HDD (nt)
by nexs · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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July 5, 2010 at 4:53 pm #2868287
It could also be
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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that your video card is bad, or not making connection to the motherboard. If you boot into BIOS can you read that?
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July 5, 2010 at 6:14 pm #2868281
They’d mentioned
by nexs · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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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’.-
July 5, 2010 at 7:00 pm #2868279
That’s what mine did
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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when it went. Shut it down, fired it up again, boom. PC fires up, hear things whizzing, black screen.
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July 5, 2010 at 7:08 pm #2868278
Some other word, please
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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Besides, “whizzing”.
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July 5, 2010 at 7:46 pm #2868277
Well, it wasn’t
by boxfiddler · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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whooshing.
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July 5, 2010 at 8:12 pm #2868275
Whirring?
by seanferd · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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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.
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July 5, 2010 at 9:17 pm #2868268
I was a’gonna do that
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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But you handled it ever so much better.
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July 6, 2010 at 7:36 am #2868212
Don’t whiz
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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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.
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July 6, 2010 at 7:50 am #2868208
“Number”
by santeewelding · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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That sounds interesting. Is it anything like the Fiction Author’s Guide to Poisons?
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July 6, 2010 at 8:35 am #2868201
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July 6, 2010 at 10:33 am #2868186
Monograph
by ansugisalas · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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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.
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July 6, 2010 at 1:26 pm #2868142
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