Killed my computer
polycounter lvl 18
My computer died on me 
and just after I'd put a new hard drive in it.
Put new hard drive in, xp installer refused to format it, finally got it formatted using maxblast. After spending AGES copying everything other from old drive, problems started.
Winamp got stuck in a loop, bluescreened, programs froze for 4-5 seconds from simple things like closing a window. Pulled out memory sticks to try them individually, no change. And then the fucker wouldn't even boot, all I get is psu, cpu and graphics card fans spinning up, power going to cd, oddly, the ram led on mobo lights up regardless of anything being in ram slots, the cd drive won't open, no image on monitor, and no post beeps.
Google says mobo is broke, gonna have to get a new cpu as well to make sure it's not that that's gone, and a psu because old one has been pretty loud lately and it might have been that the took out comp.
All in all, been a crappy, and expensive, weekend
and just after I'd put a new hard drive in it.Put new hard drive in, xp installer refused to format it, finally got it formatted using maxblast. After spending AGES copying everything other from old drive, problems started.
Winamp got stuck in a loop, bluescreened, programs froze for 4-5 seconds from simple things like closing a window. Pulled out memory sticks to try them individually, no change. And then the fucker wouldn't even boot, all I get is psu, cpu and graphics card fans spinning up, power going to cd, oddly, the ram led on mobo lights up regardless of anything being in ram slots, the cd drive won't open, no image on monitor, and no post beeps.
Google says mobo is broke, gonna have to get a new cpu as well to make sure it's not that that's gone, and a psu because old one has been pretty loud lately and it might have been that the took out comp.
All in all, been a crappy, and expensive, weekend
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But you are right, it sounds a bit like a broken mobo.
In the end I went out to compUSA and got me a nice replacement powersupply and my system worked fine. Opened the old powersupply up for fun and found a capacitor accualy SCORCHED off of the board!
Go get you a nice new powersupply, its alot cheaper than upgrading your mobo. :O If thats not it at least you know you didn't waste a bunch of money.
I had a defected ASUS motherboard few years back. Only had it for 2 months and the damn thing started to smoke!! (Fried mobo after that... -.- )
Opened the old powersupply up for fun and found a capacitor accualy SCORCHED off of the board!
[/ QUOTE ]One of the cords in my old PSU just glowed when the thing was powered, and sizzled when failing to provide power to my Fx5900's fan...
In which case the card became 78 Celsius (and yet it still works)!
MY YORKSHIRE PC WORKS JUST FINE, mwuahahahaa!
PS did you delete all the stuff from the old hard drive?
ah well, new bits arrive tomorrow.
on the plus side, i finally got round to beating god of war, the final boss fight is too easy, the spinny blades of doom took longer to beat.
oh, and i discovered that i hate laptops.
I had the same problem with my work comp a few months ago. My boss just bought me a new computer.