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  • December 7, 2013 at 10:10 am #20300
    Alzir
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    For the first time in about a week I shut down, amd switched her on again a few seconds later but nothing loads. I don’t even see the loading stuff where you can normally get into the bios. Any ideas what might have happened?

    December 7, 2013 at 10:24 am #86011
    Alzir
    Keymaster

    Nevermind, I opened the side of it and stared intently at the inner workings of the box, wondering what I was looking for. I then went to make a coffee, and came back to find windows was loading.

    January 24, 2014 at 11:42 pm #86012
    Alzir
    Keymaster

    This is happening again, so i’ll be patient and stare at it for a while but does anyone have an idea what might be going on?

    January 25, 2014 at 11:44 am #86013
    crazy hippo
    Participant

    is the BIOS POST screen appearing? i.e is the pc detecting the components or is it getting beyond that and then doing nothing?

    January 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm #86014
    Alzir
    Keymaster

    It was just not doing anything. The lights were coming on, as were the fans, and I could hear the HD’s power up, but the usual beeps on startup didn’t happen and nothing appeared on screen.

    Last time it happened it fixed itself, this time I tried reseating the RAM, and that worked. Hope it was just a loose connection and not something on it’s way out.

    January 25, 2014 at 12:47 pm #86015
    crazy hippo
    Participant

    for future reference if you check the mobo manual you can often get an idea as to the issue by listening to the beeps as they change if there is a problem.

    glad its sorted though as there is few things more annoying than a PC that doesn’t boot

    January 25, 2014 at 1:48 pm #86016
    Alzir
    Keymaster

    Aye cheers, I didn’t know the beeps could be used to pinpoint a problem, although in this case there were none at all.

    January 25, 2014 at 2:44 pm #86017
    XDC_Wolf
    Participant

    bios beeps are the first port of call in diagnosing motherboard issues, have a check of these:

    http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

    January 25, 2014 at 2:44 pm #86018
    XDC_Wolf
    Participant

    bios beeps are the first port of call in diagnosing motherboard issues, have a check of these:

    http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

    January 25, 2014 at 7:16 pm #86019
    TurksMeister
    Participant

    bios beeps are the first port of call in diagnosing motherboard issues, have a check of these:

    http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

    January 25, 2014 at 7:17 pm #86020
    TurksMeister
    Participant

    bios beeps are the first port of call in diagnosing motherboard issues, have a check of these:

    http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

    January 25, 2014 at 7:20 pm #86021
    crazy hippo
    Participant

    shut it canuck boy 🙂

    January 26, 2014 at 4:28 am #86022
    Alzir
    Keymaster

    Thanks Turks 🙂

    June 17, 2014 at 4:31 am #86023
    TurksMeister
    Participant

    @TurksMeister wrote:

    bios beeps are the first port of call in diagnosing motherboard issues, have a check of these:

    http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

    What the fuck? I didn’t write that?! Neither did wolf I imagine!

    June 17, 2014 at 4:23 pm #86024
    Alzir
    Keymaster

    hmm I dunno, I vaguely remember talking to paddy about it on TS, and it sounded like he had made that post, so I had assumed your reply here was taking the piss out of paddy’s double post.

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