Fried System!
Omega_Death
Sith apprentice to a box of Cereal Join Date: 2003-08-06 Member: 19042Members
Sith apprentice to a box of Cereal Join Date: 2003-08-06 Member: 19042Members
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My computer just got destroyed and I'm trying to piece together what happened. I'm thinking it started when I was moving my computer to a friend's house and it was raining out. A little water got on my monitor, not much and I didn't think any had gotten in through the air vents.
So I set it up and fire it up. I get the bios flash screen and turn around to talk to my friend then turn back to see a blank screen. There were no sparks or noises to alert me of something blowing. So I shut it down and plug in another monitor to find that it works.
(Dead monitor?)
I go home eat, come back an hour later. Plug in another monitor that my friend had, I know this one works. Blank screen.
(Dead video card?)
Swap out an old video card that also works. Blank screen.
(Dead AGP slot?)
Luckily I payed extra for the 3 year warrenty so everything will be replaced. Any ideas what happened?
So I set it up and fire it up. I get the bios flash screen and turn around to talk to my friend then turn back to see a blank screen. There were no sparks or noises to alert me of something blowing. So I shut it down and plug in another monitor to find that it works.
(Dead monitor?)
I go home eat, come back an hour later. Plug in another monitor that my friend had, I know this one works. Blank screen.
(Dead video card?)
Swap out an old video card that also works. Blank screen.
(Dead AGP slot?)
Luckily I payed extra for the 3 year warrenty so everything will be replaced. Any ideas what happened?
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unless in moving the computer, the jostling unseated your heatsink
If you can turn it on and get past the bios as you were saying before, maybe your hard drive has failed or something. If you leave it go for ages and you hear the windows startup sound or something while still having a blank screen, that means you must have a dead gfx card.
I hope this helps into finding the problem :o
If you can turn it on and get past the bios as you were saying before, maybe your hard drive has failed or something. If you leave it go for ages and you hear the windows startup sound or something while still having a blank screen, that means you must have a dead gfx card.
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As I said, wait till it drys. It might not be fried yet, but if you keep crossing voltages to parts not designed for higher ratings, your going to fry some IC's if they havent been fried already. Try crossing some transistor leads, they dont get hot at first, but over time you better not touch them or your going to get burned. He might get lucky and thats all it is, water crossing a circut and causing it not to work right. Worst comes to worst, its fried, but I wouldent play with it for a few days just to make sure. It dosent take much water to destory a circut (hell 1 drop could do it, its just got to cross 2 wires and BAM your SOL)
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I returned a drive when it started acting up after 3 days of use, I forgot to mention that I accidentally used a magnetized-tip screwdriver to put it back in the case. It actually worked fine after that, for about an hour....
They dont need to know that.
I had a soundcard replaced because I accidently damaged the gold pins on the PCI part and when they asked what happend I said "Im not sure I just turned my computer on and it didnt work"
Bingo.
All of my stuff is going to be replaced, and luckily my hard drives are safe! Losing all my data was my biggest fear. So I'm pretty much going to be without a gaming computer for a week or two. But in good news since my stuff was around two years old I'm getting upgrades. They might not have my old parts in stock so they give me equal or better parts! Good times I guess.
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Sounds like you might have dropped a few systems down the stairs methinks CWAG
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Rep: What happened to it
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Customer gets new laptop, and, sometimes, even gets to keep their old one!
The monitor was purchased at office depot and the RAM stick was given to my by a friend when he upgraded. Selective destruction? I am now more confused than I was before.
I'm assuming the monitor was caused by the rain, but the RAM stick is troubling me. The others along with everything else apear to be working fine. Could it just be that this one decided to die on me coincidently. Damned fickle machines.
I wish I was kidding.