SERIOUS SERIOUS HELP NEEDED

The Germanator · 04-10-2005, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Null

and you woudlnt happen to have a spare power supply you can try?

I actually did try another one. No dice still... My only thought was plugging it into a different outlet, but why would everything else work in the outlet, but not that?

Null · 04-10-2005, 02:15 PM

wouldnt, unless that one outlet is broke.

how many sticks of ram you have in it?

The Germanator · 04-10-2005, 02:19 PM

To be honest, I don't really know as I don't really know what that means. I assume one or two, maybe one because I probably went with whatever cheaper option at the time...

Bond · 04-10-2005, 02:32 PM

Germy... I'm IMing you, but I don't think you can see what I'm saying. So, when you turn on the computer nothing at all happens?

The Germanator · 04-10-2005, 02:34 PM

I'm on insant AIM and it's not working sorry about that.

What I'm saying is that I am pressing the power button to turn on the computer, but absolutely nothing is happening. It doesn't even react for a second...I just push the button and it retracts, but it doesn't turn the computer on...Could it be as simple as the button being broken? I don't know...it's troubling.

Bond · 04-10-2005, 02:39 PM

Do you have any idea what those error messages looked like?

Null · 04-10-2005, 02:40 PM

i'd say either the power supply in the computer, or Ram, possibly motherboard.

theres a way you can test to see if its the button by putting a piece of metal, between 2 of the pins inside, but i dont remember which ones anymore

The Germanator · 04-10-2005, 02:54 PM

So worst case scenario, what am I dealing with here? Do you think there is any way I can get any data off of the computer within two days. Otherwise I'm finished...I'm at a loss for words, I don't really know what to do.

The only thing I remember about the error message was that it turned my screen blue and just had a plethora of white text. I feel like some of the text related to websites I had recently visited, but that doesn't make sense to me...I just know that I hadn't seen it before...