Very bad computer day :o(

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Hi all,

I'm really hoping someone can help me here...

Story is that we have bought a second hand computer for OH's dad. Got it last night - saw it working, all was good. Went to set it up for him today and windows screen came up but then the monitor went blank and the screen displayed no signal.

OH had to turn it off at the base unit and since then it has not been playing at all. Sporadically displays "windows failed to boot properly" messages, won't start in any mode (safe or otherwise) and the keyboard now also locks up so you can't actually do anything.

Anyone got any ideas? I fear the damn thing did take a small tumble in the back of the car - could things have come loose and be causing this problem??
I don't really know what I am doing and have probably made the situation worse... feel like this :bang: and £110 worse off with a duff pooter :(
 
Due to the small, er, tumble your first action should be to take the cover off and make sure that everything is seated properly connected as it should be. That's memory sticks, video card, any other card and all cables.

If there is still a problem then your hard disk is the likely culprit.
 
Thanks... if I wern't so annoyed I would be laughing as I am now struggling to get the cover off. I'm really not good with computers!! I will keep trying...
 
2blue4u said:
Due to the small, er, tumble your first action should be to take the cover off and make sure that everything is seated properly connected as it should be. That's memory sticks, video card, any other card and all cables.

If there is still a problem then your hard disk is the likely culprit.
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It wont be the HDD

What you should do is reseat the CMOS battery and also make sure all the PSU connections are intact and reseat the RAM, but before reseating the RAM blow out the slots with a can of compressed air and a small brush (dont do this while its plugged in) also if its XP try the recovery console just make sure you boot from CD via the BIOS, if you dont know how to do any of this take it to a shop but not PC World as they would probably think a mouse had chewed a wire, lol
 
I recommend doing a thorough scan disk if you get into windows.

If the disk returns bad sectors etc get a new hard disk for it.. the computer can use a disk with bad sectors and will tell you it has repaired it but it's just a time bomb waiting to go off and taking your data with it :)
 
I would definitely check that all of your cards, particularly your graphics card, are well seated on the mother board.
A knock may well have dislodged one, but don't worry they will generally slot back in without a problem.

Comus
 
Sorry, I should add that you should make sure that you are grounded before you touch anything on your motherboard.

Comus
 
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