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mayday, mayday : my pc is down

September 14th, 2006 by Hans

A cold boot. That hasn’t brought it back. A warm one. Still nothing. Is the injury a profound one? I hear no sound beep coming from it.

I open it, everything seems fine inside. Nothing burnt, haaa thank God.

I take off every of its cable. Some deep examination might be required. We’ve got a soldier down, mayday, mayday!!!!

I thought that it was dust. My pc did that to me in the past. Dust covered some of its internal parts and that didn’t allow it to boot. I took off the RAM, shed the dust off. I put that vital part back, the RAM. Another try. POWER ON. Nothing. The screen is the one who goes first.

OK, I won’t give up. Let’s examine things. Everything is put back to where it was, the cable to the holes, the casing on it. POWER ON. The screen turns off, no beep. Nothing, not a single sound.

I try cleaning inside. Some more time. Nothing.

Is that humidity, might you have catch a cold?

The RAM seems fine else some lots of beep would have come out, you would have screamed.

But something strange. Before I push the ON button, you’re already starting up. As I put power on there, you start without me having pushed that ON button. How’s that?

Backup required. We’ve got a SOLDIER down. Medkit in the field. Don’t go away.

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  • 1 Kyushiro Sep 14, 2006 at 7:04 pm

    Problem with the power supply? damn that’s happening to everyone around me (inclusively) lol good luck man

  • 2 anoop simpleguy Sep 14, 2006 at 9:01 pm

    Bonsoir ..

    @ Kyushiro :

    What happened :?: :?:

    Seems u r in a bad posture ..

    Hey .. u ya on Hi5 ?? If yes .. please do submit ur Hi5 address or a means to contact ya ..

    Okie ..

    Take care ..

    ** a tip : smack down ur PC .. Am sure .. it will work again ..

  • 3 Hans Sep 15, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    @ kyushiro

    Don’t know yet if it’s the power supply who is at fault. I don’t think so :roll: my pc was hiding behind the voltages using a UPS.

  • 4 Hans Sep 15, 2006 at 1:54 pm

    @ anoop simpleguy

    Don’t say that. It will hear us. ;) I’m going on calmly with it ;) hihihihiih

    Yo man, now the hi5er get your link becomes our official ground for discussing about the hi5 operation.

    See you there. Getting back to the base.

  • 5 anoop simpleguy Sep 15, 2006 at 2:37 pm

    Elooo ..

    Greetings everyone ..

    Hey .. if anyone is facing difficulties wiz his hard disk, just inform me .. ;) ;)

    I mean BIOS is detecting ur Hard Disk ; but due to bad sectors, ur PC does not boot up ..

    Dunno what problem else .. 8O 8O

    Inform me .. :x :x I may be of some help .. :D :D

    Cooooooooooolz ..

    Take care for the time being ..

    Also .. the “Mayday ; Mayday” sounds like ” A day in May ” .. :lol: :lol: :lol: :o

    Shouldn’t it have been : ” M’aider ; M’aider ” :?: :?: :lol: :oops:

    Dunno me …

    Bon .. Take care ..

    Byez

  • 6 anoop simpleguy Sep 15, 2006 at 2:39 pm

    Re greetingz .. :)

    Am facing a problem with my monitor : its getting blurred :!: :!: :!: 8O 8O

    Anyone knows if there exist a place in Mauritius where monitors are repaired :?: :?:

    Thanks in advance .. 8) 8)

    Byez ..

  • 7 Kyushiro Sep 15, 2006 at 5:15 pm

    :mrgreen: :mrgreen: lol @ Anoop I wonder how you manage to work on that pc :?: :?: Lol good luck guys :!: :!: :!: :!: now my pc is ok and running at full power :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  • 8 Kyushiro Sep 15, 2006 at 5:25 pm

    Lol @and @ anoop, both formats are okay, “Mayday” (Hey its working, my apostrophe key!!!) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Is the english version, they probably adapted it from the french cause it is easier and faster to pronounce than “Help me, help me!” :mrgreen: :mrgreen: lol

  • 9 Hans Sep 16, 2006 at 6:44 pm

    @ anoop

    For your monitor, I think it’s the first sign that it’s giving to tell you that it will drop soona or later.

    I’ve gone through this. My Philips monitor started to blur, some colour missing then it gave up.

    Reparation costs for monitors are way too high, a new one would seem cheaper that repairing it. That’s how I landed with a 17″ Viewsonic, a black one.

  • 10 Hans Sep 16, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    @ kyushiro

    way the best dude I know digging through the etymology of words

    Just send him Jap, French, English words : he would face them all :o

  • 11 Hans Sep 16, 2006 at 6:49 pm

    As for my pc, the current mission status :

    :arrow: I’ve got a fried RAM

    I’m using my cousin’s(comradejv) pc for the moment until mine gets back to life

  • 12 TechZ Sep 19, 2006 at 4:56 pm

    My router has bit the dust too, so it’s gonna need replacing asap.

    Dust is a killer here too, I regularly clean out my pc.

  • 13 Hans Sep 19, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    @ Techz

    I heard that there were special sprays that could be used to prevent the dust from sticking to the pieces inside.

    I still have to test this to value its effectiveness.

    Then what’s your secrets for fighting the dust?

  • 14 TechZ Sep 20, 2006 at 4:05 pm

    hans, I clean the PC regularly, thats my secret ;)

  • 15 Yvonne Sep 20, 2006 at 5:37 pm

    Well, since TechZ’s here, I’m going to gleefully say, “Mac Power!” … and then run away …. right now …

  • 16 Hans Sep 21, 2006 at 1:01 am

    @ techz

    thanks for the tip dude. :roll: I’m going to do it right more often now ;)

  • 17 Hans Sep 21, 2006 at 1:06 am

    @ Yvonne

    don’t tell me. Mac ain’t getting dusty those days? Does the dust fear the aesthetic look of a sleek apple that it won’t even think of messing around it.

    Hey Yvonne, why are you running away? I haven’t even showed you my BlogoBox. Get to meet it if you’ve got some time. Perhaps there might be something that could pull you there.

    Thanks for getting onto my playground, hope to see you more often. :roll:

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