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Demonic Spoon
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Wish I knew how to install a motherboard without f***ing everything up...then I could build a computer.
Oh well.
GND, your whole computer is broken and infested with evil spirits. You'll need to buy a whole new computer, as well as an anti-ghost gun. |
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Kt
Joined: 23 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Demonic Spoon wrote: Wish I knew how to install a motherboard without f***ing everything up...then I could build a computer.
It's real easy.
(well, untill you hit those unknown incompatibilities between non-industry standard parts) |
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beachbum bob
Joined: 14 Sep 2005
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Location: Home state of the ChiSox and Obama
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:20 am Post subject: |
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The Grandmaster wrote: Helena` wrote: FCTE wrote: Helena` wrote: Ever see a standard power supply plugged into a dell motherbored?
also exciting and eventful.
I avoid Dells like the plague, so no. :)
As do I, but customers do not.
Dell = s*cks
Self Built Computer from Mwave/Newegg Components = Awesome, Proper computer.
same here....only purchased computers I buy are laptops...all the others built from scratch using Mwave and Newegg...........
as for HD problems....check cable connections..... |
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Protostar
Joined: 30 Jul 2004
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Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:40 am Post subject: |
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beachbum bob wrote: The Grandmaster wrote: Helena` wrote: FCTE wrote: Helena` wrote: Ever see a standard power supply plugged into a dell motherbored?
also exciting and eventful.
I avoid Dells like the plague, so no. :)
As do I, but customers do not.
Dell = s*cks
Self Built Computer from Mwave/Newegg Components = Awesome, Proper computer.
same here....only purchased computers I buy are laptops...all the others built from scratch using Mwave and Newegg...........
as for HD problems....check cable connections.....
Thats what I was thinking. It is relatively easy for SATA connectors to come loose. Thats the only good thing about PATA. Once the connector was in, it was in. |
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beachbum bob
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:43 am Post subject: |
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Protostar wrote: beachbum bob wrote: The Grandmaster wrote: Helena` wrote: FCTE wrote: Helena` wrote: Ever see a standard power supply plugged into a dell motherbored?
also exciting and eventful.
I avoid Dells like the plague, so no. :)
As do I, but customers do not.
Dell = s*cks
Self Built Computer from Mwave/Newegg Components = Awesome, Proper computer.
same here....only purchased computers I buy are laptops...all the others built from scratch using Mwave and Newegg...........
as for HD problems....check cable connections.....
Thats what I was thinking. It is relatively easy for SATA connectors to come loose. Thats the only good thing about PATA. Once the connector was in, it was in.
if cmos battery a problem...many systems give a warning of "low cmos battery"...sometimes |
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David
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| To summarize :It's probably not the hard drive.It's most likely the CMOS battery.Usually they are easy to replace but it may be soldered in and that creates a problem if you don't know how.First thing though is to unplug the hard drive and plug it back in making sure the plug is well seated on both ends the drive as well as the motherboard. |
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Siberian Fox
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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Location: California
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| It's nothing hard to fix, just expensive... get a new hard drive, and bios battery off the internet, they have good online installation guides. (Recommend a one terabyte) |
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macadoo
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:32 am Post subject: Not the CMOS battery |
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Assuming you have a brand name store bought computer and it's less than 3 or 4 years old:
If your cmos battery were dead, then running setup would detect the drive and allow you to boot to os. Each time the puter is turned off, it would lose the settings and force you to go through the same sequence each time because the system would not save the settings. A good way to tell if it's the cmos battery is when you go into setup, does it save the clock settings? If the clock defaults to the same time each time you power up and power back on, then it's a cmos battery.
Other possibilities: have you moved the computer lately? It's possible that the cable connection on the back of the drive or at the system board has come loose. Check both the power and IDE/Serial ATA cable at both ends (just follow the cable from the back of the hard drive to where it plugs in at the other end).
If your computer is less than 2 or 3 years old, it should look for the hard drive when you go into setup. As long as the hard drive was working properly, then it should communicate and say "I'm here".
Other considerations; the cables are bad (not likely), the power source or connections on the hard drive are bad (again, not likely).
If you boot up and get something to the effect of "invalid system disk" - it could potentially be a virus..
Last but not least, it simply could be a bad hard drive. Hard drives are one of the few mechanical pieces of hardware in the computer and therefore, the most likely to fail. They are easy to replace and fairly inexpensive nowadays.
Hope this helps. |
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