Fender357
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K.... here's my long story of whats happening with my computer right now. People here that know stuff about computers please read this and tell me what you think it might be.
Today I got home from school....I'd left my pc on like usual. The screen was off as usual because I have it set to turn off insted of doing a screen saver. Imove the mouse around to get it going again... It does nothing. Pressing keys, yelling words...it does nothing.
I hit the reset button on the pc, Oh, and all the lights on the pc are on, reset does nothing. Power button does nothing.
I've got to cut the power and turn it back on. It starts up with the DOS start up stuff, I can see that all fine.
When it gets to the part where it loads windows, the screen goes black, and all the lights on the pc go on. The one over the reset button, the one over the power button, and the one on my CD drive. It just locks up again.
SO, I keep trying it off and on off and on, it does the same thing. Called my mom to have her ask someone at work what to do. They said try dissableing the video card. Tryed doing that, still froze up.
I tried starting in Safe Mode. That didn't work the first time, but the second time it did. But then a minute later...screen goes black and it does teh same shit.
So....trying to do anything dosn't work for me....I give up....I fall asleep on the couch.
I tryed it again a couple of hours later. Didn't even get to the DOS start up. Just went straight to black. On off a couple of times, it started up. This time it didn't even ask me about safe mode...just started.
Everything started up as normal. Now I'm here, not knowing wtF to do, or whats wrong.
Do any of you have any idea what might be causing this? First thought is that it could be my video card. Its a GeForce 4 Ti 4200, about a year and a half old. Never had any problem with it.
I've never had anything like this happen with my PC. Since I got it its been doing great.
So, someone who's knoledgable about this stuff....what do you think it is?
Today I got home from school....I'd left my pc on like usual. The screen was off as usual because I have it set to turn off insted of doing a screen saver. Imove the mouse around to get it going again... It does nothing. Pressing keys, yelling words...it does nothing.
I hit the reset button on the pc, Oh, and all the lights on the pc are on, reset does nothing. Power button does nothing.
I've got to cut the power and turn it back on. It starts up with the DOS start up stuff, I can see that all fine.
When it gets to the part where it loads windows, the screen goes black, and all the lights on the pc go on. The one over the reset button, the one over the power button, and the one on my CD drive. It just locks up again.
SO, I keep trying it off and on off and on, it does the same thing. Called my mom to have her ask someone at work what to do. They said try dissableing the video card. Tryed doing that, still froze up.
I tried starting in Safe Mode. That didn't work the first time, but the second time it did. But then a minute later...screen goes black and it does teh same shit.
So....trying to do anything dosn't work for me....I give up....I fall asleep on the couch.
I tryed it again a couple of hours later. Didn't even get to the DOS start up. Just went straight to black. On off a couple of times, it started up. This time it didn't even ask me about safe mode...just started.
Everything started up as normal. Now I'm here, not knowing wtF to do, or whats wrong.
Do any of you have any idea what might be causing this? First thought is that it could be my video card. Its a GeForce 4 Ti 4200, about a year and a half old. Never had any problem with it.
I've never had anything like this happen with my PC. Since I got it its been doing great.
So, someone who's knoledgable about this stuff....what do you think it is?