i was on my desktop and everything was fine but i came back to my computer from doing something else and it was on standby. i try and revive it and my monitor isnt getting any signal from the computer. This has happened twice before but when i tryed to turn it on there werent any error code beeps all the other times there have been. please help D:
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Anonymous2005-11-17 22:19
Assuming everything is sort of turning on, but doesn't appear to be working, I'd try switching out the power supply for another one. It's probably the easiest and cheapest hardware switch you can try. It sounds like a problem I had recently, and I tried 94829034823 things to fix it, but in the end, it was the power supply.
The power supply is a large box inside the computer, it's where the power cord goes. IT converts the power from house current to 12 volts computer current. That has probably gone bad.
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Anonymous2005-11-18 1:03
When you open your case, and look on the other side of where the power cord goes in, that big box there is the power supply. It will have multicolored wires coming from it on the inside of the case that go to the various computer systems. It converts the power from house current to 12 volts computer current. That ia the part everyone thinks has probably gone bad.
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Anonymous2005-11-18 1:04
When you open your case, and look on the other side of where the power cord goes in, that big box there is the power supply. It will have multicolored wires coming from it on the inside of the case that go to the various computer systems. It converts the power from house current to 12 volts computer current. That ia the part everyone thinks has probably gone bad.
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Anonymous2005-11-18 1:05
Fucking firefox doesn't act like it posts for some reason.
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Anonymous2005-11-18 2:52
how much do those generally cost, i dont know anything about computer hardware how the fuck do i take it out to see what kind i need, and are you sure its the power supply because the computer still turns on its just nothing happens.
ehhh, considering your posts then maybe you seriously shouldn't be replacing your psu purely by yourself anytime soon.
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Anonymous2005-11-18 5:01
i think you're right
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Anonymous2005-11-19 1:15
Have you checked to see if it's not just a faulty monitor cable?? Turn it on, let it go on standby, then once you think (if you can't see it) it's booted up all the way, tap shift to turn on stickykeys, which makes your motherboard beep. If that responds, it's something between the monitor itself and the monitor out on your computer. I daresay it may be a bad connection on a graphics card/motherboard, but it sounds like it could also be a short in a monitor cable. Any sharp bends in your monitor cable, especially at the two ends, could result in such.