pc wont boot up

I was very drunk that night. Me and a couple of friends shared 2 bottles of whiskey, cider and beers(think I even tried a can of Special Brew(my friend actually likes it).

Hangover for two days. Mixing drinks not advisable!

I had fallen asleep on the spinny chair. How I stayed on the chair is beyond me. I woke up with cramp in the back of my leg. It happens a few times a year. In the process I booted the pc about 5 feet(it was a long desk i had at the time)

Falling asleep drunk.... One summer it was unbearably hot&humid and I lay down the fan I had at the time and put my face to it; I Fell asleep like that for about 4 hours. :D

Back on topic? hehe
 
Restless said:
Whats the comptuter/board? bios?

HP comes up in search. One short, one long usually means memory problem.
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Hi well I was given the PC about 5 years back - I don't have any details you ask on this. It doesn't even have a brand name on it. It has windows XP in it. I'm not that bothered as i have 3 other lap tops. It's the photos and some documents I wanted on it.
 
does anything come up on the screen when first turning on.. black screen white writing. usually tells u what bios it is there
 
Restless said:
does anything come up on the screen when first turning on.. black screen white writing. usually tells u what bios it is there
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I've unplugged it now and I can't tell you at the moment. Is it F12 the hot key on all computers that should take you into the BIOS on boot up?
 
kestrelx said:
Hi well I was given the PC about 5 years back - I don't have any details you ask on this. It doesn't even have a brand name on it. It has windows XP in it. I'm not that bothered as i have 3 other lap tops. It's the photos and some documents I wanted on it.
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In that case the best way is to slave the harddrive in another machine and just browse it to recover the files.

Hope this helps.
 
Bob97531 said:
In that case the best way is to slave the harddrive in another machine and just browse it to recover the files.

Hope this helps.
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Yeh good idea - except I don't have an other old PC and I don't think a brand new PC would be compatible with this machine.

I had a PC before that after about 6 years just clapped out that's what they do.
 
Bob97531 said:
In that case the best way is to slave the harddrive in another machine and just browse it to recover the files.

Hope this helps.
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if the computer is passworded and you put this into another windows pc you might have problems recovering files if you keep files in "my documents" a good rule is NEVER store files on system partitions
 
Restless said:
if the computer is passworded and you put this into another windows pc you might have problems recovering files if you keep files in "my documents" a good rule is NEVER store files on system partitions
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It wasn't pass worded! I've done it before - you take out a hard drive from a computer that's Motherboard is bust and you link it into another hard drive as a slave to get the data. You used to see PC's dumped in the street, these days you don't see them anymore. PC's are changing so fast these days that one about 6 years old may not be compatible with new machines. The first PC I got was so noisy - the lap top I have now is virtually silent. It's changing so fast.
 
Well mine wouldnt take it if its an ide drive but lots of computers will. My motherboard doesnt have IDE onboard. There is always sata>ide adapters. I use one in my xbox1 so I can install IDE hd's up to 2TB
 
Restless said:
Well mine wouldnt take it if its an ide drive but lots of computers will. My motherboard doesnt have IDE onboard. There is always sata>ide adapters. I use one in my xbox1 so I can install IDE hd's up to 2TB
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Well if you buy a new computer generally you don't open it up and start playing around with it unless you want to lose your warranty!
 
I build my own PC. Parts are still under warranty though. If you can prove you haven't damaged them with ESD
 
Restless said:
I build my own PC. Parts are still under warranty though. If you can prove you haven't damaged them with ESD
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This computer I have asked questions about I've never opened it up. But others which I have messed about with have never blown through ESD even though I didn't bother to do that little trick to discharge it! :) I've also unpluged hard drivers and other cables while it's been on and nothing bad has happened.
 
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