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xaccy

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Recently had a power pack failure changed the power pack for a new one,now the PC wont boot up also cannot hear post check beeps,all I have is the monitor lit up with a message saying no signal.Do you think the power pack going down has damaged the mother board?forgot to say this is my standby PC.:(
 
xaccy said:
Recently had a power pack failure changed the power pack for a new one,now the PC wont boot up also cannot hear post check beeps,all I have is the monitor lit up with a message saying no signal.Do you think the power pack going down has damaged the mother board?forgot to say this is my standby PC.:(
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Unfortunately it could have blown through, motherboard, processor, ram, H.D. Hope you have plenty of spare bits to try, good luck with it.
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Restless said:
There was power cut when I lived on Steiner St. It blew all in my PC £600 down the drain :(
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That's why you should buy a surge protector i have an old belkin surge protector and all the laptops and printer and even phone go through this its guaranteed for life and will be replaced along with any equipment attached to it if it fails up to £10,000,000 :D
 
Its a very old one big flat you could sit a old type monitor on top it has 6 switches on the front its called a surge master model F5C100u:D

They are now being offered on e-bay for £2-99:D
would have saved you £600:D
 
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White in colour? if so its the same as my friend has. Nice piece. hmm 2.99 might invest.

Mick said:
Its a very old one big flat you could sit a old type monitor on top it has 6 switches on the front its called a surge master model F5C100u:D

They are now being offered on e-bay for £2-99:D
would have saved you £600:D
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mines more off white now:D
I also just recently bought another one from argos it has room for 4 plugs and has 2 usb slots on top
I use it to charge my ipad and iphone.
think it was about £17:99
 
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I have a belkin surge protector.........I bought it a lot of years ago after I lost a PC to a 'brown out'....at that time I hadn't a clue about what a 'brown out' was........education comes at a cost. I lost the computer, but gained the knowledge that such events were lethal and when I got a new computer, I bought a surge protector too.
They were dearer then, but a lot less than the cost of a computer.
 
Mick said:
Its a very old one big flat you could sit a old type monitor on top it has 6 switches on the front its called a surge master model F5C100u:D

They are now being offered on e-bay for £2-99:D
would have saved you £600:D
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You're just a belt and braces sort of guy, I have exactly the same model.

:D
 
OK I was gonna start a new thread but as this one covers the issue I'll post to it.

My other computer is a PC and last night I turned it on and I heard the first bleep as usual and the monitor showed the usual icons. But then at the next bleep - that bleep just got stuck and sounded like a ringing bell and the screen went black and just that ringing sound!

The Monitor light goes to blue which is normal and does that when the machine is booted up anyway. But the screen is black.

Now if I press the CD Rom reset button the ringing sounds stops and it starts to re-boot but after the first graphics again it goes back to the repeated bleep that sounds like a bell! So it's obviously stuck for some reason?

Anybody got any ideas? Could it be the CD Rom is malfunctioned? I never use that much anyway.

Any suggestions, :confused::rolleyes:I was on the verge of getting rid of it but there are some photos on it and documents that I would like to get off before scrapping it.
 
Whats the comptuter/board? bios?

HP comes up in search. One short, one long usually means memory problem.
 
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Restless said:
Whats the comptuter/board? bios?

HP comes up in search. One short, one long usually means memory problem.
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Screen stays black? sounds more like display. Usually one long and two short, neither your suggestion nor mine by description sounds like a bell.
 
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Screen stays black? sounds more like display. Usually one long and two short, neither your suggestion nor mine by description sounds like a bell.
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I first thought video reading the thread. I remember from when I fell asleep drunk(really drunk) in front of pc and woke up with cramp and kicked pc over and video card came out.... :)
 
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