Journal #7015
Posted 13 years ago2011-01-31 14:53:33 UTC
No, I'm not dead. The computer is just still giving us problems. When we got the new RAM, that fixed it, for a while. But now the damn thing is freezing and failing to boot again. We just got it back from my cousin, who used to fix computers for a living. He gave it a clean bill of health; booted it, ran dskchk, ran the computer for hours without any ill effects. But as soon as it gets back here, it stops working.
So, I am still alive. I'm not going to stop coming to TWHL. I just can't access the internet on a regular basis until we get this sorted out.
Which really sucks.
So, I am still alive. I'm not going to stop coming to TWHL. I just can't access the internet on a regular basis until we get this sorted out.
Which really sucks.
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Does the computer run fine sometimes and then other times "won't boot" or has problems booting?
Lemme tell you a cool story that has a happy ending....
About 6 months ago we had a electrical storm that caused a power surge. In turn, it fried my wife's computer. The thing would come on sometimes and make it to the desktop but had serious problems. Eventually, it would not even boot. This is after I pretty much removed everything it took to make the machine work, network card, cd drive, etc. This drove me mad for days until I looked up capacitor problems.
If you look on your motherboard around your chip, you will see all your "starter" capacitors. These 5-10 units store the power needed to start your computer. When your computer starts it needs alot of power to get past the boot stage. The capacitors help regulate the over-power as well and keeps everything from getting fried. If these are bad then they will not be flat on top anymore and could possibly be leaking a brown ooze.
If you know how to de-solder/solder then you shouldn't have any problems fixing your computer. It costs under $10 for the parts and about 2 hours of your time. There is a nice video on yourtube. I will see if I can find it. You definitely don't want to scratch the gold plating on the back.
I replaced eight on my motherboard and the computer hasn't had one single problem since. I have another motherboard with similar symptoms that I am going to fix soon (it only needs one).
Check your whole motherboard for other blown capacitors. Your technician should have been able to see anything wrong on the motherboard if he was looking.
Lemme know. I can help ya!