Clownburner 0 #1 September 20, 2004 Hey all! My sister lives in Florida now, and her computer got taken out by some kind of power disturbance. I'm too far away to diagnose it, but if any of you folks down there want to make a few bucks quickly for some easy PC work, please send me a PM and I'll get you the info; she can bring the PC to you within a reasonable distance of Daytona Beach... From her description, the PC posts but locks before booting the OS; might be a flakey power supply or a fried hard drive, but I can't tell from way over here on the left coast. Anybody with PC diagnostic experience need a few extra bucks for jumps? Thanks in advance...7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamjenner 0 #2 September 20, 2004 i'm not in the area but it sound like maybe it's a problem with the CPU? that happened to my computer after a power surge. i had to go out and buy the mother of a machine i have now Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Clownburner 0 #3 September 20, 2004 Unlikely; if the CPU were fried the computer wouldn't pass the POST test and 'beep' when it powered on...7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
junkyarddog 0 #4 September 20, 2004 It will more than likely just be a bad hard drive or corrupted OS file. The PC would more than likely not post anything if it were a hardware failure. If it is posting every time you try then its not the power supply so thats my guess. The only other thing I can think of is the memory is fried but that is rare...very rare. It would post but as soon as it gets past the BIOS it would probably freeze or give a blank screen afterwards. If you can't get if fixed by next weekend email me at jydog@hotmail.com I'll be in deland next week. Orfun #4 Juego Hombre Rodriguez Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #5 September 20, 2004 Well, I had a very similar experience when the FSB decided to take a long walk off a short ledge...And I've seen similar things happen when a powersupply got flaky, but that is very rare. Are the harddrives being shown correctly during the post, how about the memory count? Is the BIOS accessable at all? You can work backwards from the problem depending on where it stops. I.E. if you can get in the bios and work, but after the bios posts and gives control the the boot sector of the primary HD it locks, then the MBR could be bad. Fdisk /mbr fixes that in a jiffy (usually) after booting from CD/floppy. If its beyond that, then a clean install on a new drive from another machine put in as primary can help you track down problems, then slaving the former primary to try to save data will get you back on your feet. I've had to do that more then once after controler cards on cheap HDs go out.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
