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Grabigel
10-12-2009, 09:17 PM
When trying to use my pc today,(I'm on my mothers pc right now by the way.) I turn the pc on. The screen is black and I can't hear the HDD Speaker loading sound, the light works though and seems to be loading something, but nothing happens and i can't hear anything on the speakers. My Hard Drive is an old 160g IDE so I'm wondering if the hard drive died.

Incase it would help, Here are my specs

Antec 900 Case
AMD Athlon 5400+ 2.8Ghz CPU
NVIDIA ASUS 8800GT
2G's of DDR2 800 RAM
Aprevia 500W PSU
Gigibyte M57SLI Motherboard
Westinghouse 22i Monitor
Generic Emachines speakers
A IDE 160g hard drive from my old Emachines.

If anyone would know what causes these problems, please comment back :)
Onearmy
10-12-2009, 09:37 PM
Almost the exact same thing happened to me, although it was my graphics card (Nvidia Geforce 4200- ancient.) that had burnt out and died.

So your problem may be a graphics card failure, but I think it might be a hard-drive failure because when my graphics card died I could still hear the loading sound.

If you have any other spare graphics cards, see if you can put them in your computer if it will take it. If you can, and the problem is still there, then I am almost certain it is a hard-drive failure.
smith1215
10-12-2009, 09:53 PM
Ati > nvidia
Grabigel
10-12-2009, 10:00 PM
Ati > nvidia

Well, that wasn't needed, and I Completely Disagree :).
Onearmy
10-12-2009, 10:57 PM
Ati > nvidia

Depends on preference, really. But Nvidia is what I grew up with so it is what I use. Although my computer came in with a built in ATI card, but built-in cards, no matter the company, are absolutely horrible.


But try putting in another graphics card, and if that isn't it, then it's definately the hard-drive.

If it was your motherboard your computer would not even turn on.
HiddenShadow
10-12-2009, 11:49 PM
Another nvidia problem with a Nvidia 9800 gt


Well, a few days ago my "under a year old" gaming computer went crazy, the screen became distorted, and dollar signs $$$ appear at start up, I then get a BSOD 116 error.
then I cant get into safemode, soo I have to reformat the whole hardrive and reinstall windows, that allows safe mode to work which allowed me to disable the graphics card drivers, reboot and the $$$ still come up, but no BSOD and I can finaly get into windows. I try uninstalling/installing different versions of the graphics card drivers, but get no where.
every time there enabled I get BSOD 116.

the end.
Onearmy
10-13-2009, 01:06 AM
Another nvidia problem with a Nvidia 9800 gt


Well, a few days ago my "under a year old" gaming computer went crazy, the screen became distorted, and dollar signs $$$ appear at start up, I then get a BSOD 116 error.
then I cant get into safemode, soo I have to reformat the whole hardrive and reinstall windows, that allows safe mode to work which allowed me to disable the graphics card drivers, reboot and the $$$ still come up, but no BSOD and I can finaly get into windows. I try uninstalling/installing different versions of the graphics card drivers, but get no where.
every time there enabled I get BSOD 116.

the end.


Perhaps take it to a specialist? I've never had that or heard of it... ever... Sounds like something fishy is at work, like a virus.
HiddenShadow
10-13-2009, 03:21 AM
cant be a virus, it had no access to the internetz.
Specht
10-13-2009, 03:26 AM
Mine is a 9800GT, the first one had a little piece (which I forgot the name) mysteriously exploded, got a free replacement from another brand, which is slightly overclocked by stock and it's still working after almost a year.
Ness
10-13-2009, 03:28 AM
If there is no beeping then you have to take a guess.

Card or board.

Rule out ram seems there is no beeping. If your drive is loading but nothing is on the screen then it is prolly the pc not the drive. Its trying but it has nothing to do.

Take the card out and sniff it (yes I said sniff it).
Look around the board for anythign that may be unplugged or doesn't look right. (melted shit or stuff thats an off color).
Try the drive in another pc.
Riksa
10-13-2009, 04:36 AM
Well, I'm going to go with different kind of guess. The weakest link of your PC is without question Apevia PSU. Never heard of the brand and Google makes me even more sure it's the one that's broken.

HDD's seldom just fail suddenly. No matter how old they're.

GPU, PSU or MB. The last one is a b**ch to replace just for trying, so I might take the patient to the specialist for testing if it's not the GPU or PSU.
Grabigel
10-15-2009, 10:59 PM
Well, I got the pc working by opening it up and getting all of the dust out. I also turned the case fans on the lowest setting. Everything works just fine now, its bauss.
HiddenShadow
10-16-2009, 03:58 AM
Dude with the problem u had, when u start ur computer did ur moniter just stay on amber? and did ur system beep? or just stay silent?