Well, power finally restored late yesterday pm. Been off since Wednesday a.m. No worse for the wear except for frayed nerves and my computer. Will not fire up. Any suggestions? I guess I'll have to take to the shop for cpr.
Won't come on at all. Where would the fuse be if it has one? It's going to the "geek squad" tonight if I can't get it to come on. I'm guessing power supply as well. The electricity was surging quite a bit the day before it finally went off. I do have a surge protector on it, but may not have made any difference. FWIW, the monitor, printer, etc was on the surge protector and all are okie dokie.
Sounds stupid, but make sure the recepticle on the surge strip that the CPU is plugged into works by swapping another device with it. Make sure the surge protector breaker is closed, make sure the power cord is firmly in it's receptacle in the CPU and the surge protector.
If all that is good, then:
A lot of times if the CPU has a fuse, the fuse holder is near the power cord inlet. More common to have a red reset button these days by the power cord receptacle on the back of the CPU. Just push it back in if it has popped out (kinda like a ground fault reset button on a GFCI house outlet or hair dryer. If not...Welcome Geek Squad!
Its your power supply. Please do yourself a favor and cross shop best buy to newegg. That is if you feel able to install a power supply. Geek Squad is expensive!!
Well, the Geek's at Best Buy were real fine. Tore it down with me standing there and tested the power supply and shore e'nuff, 'tis toast. No charge, either Problem is, I've got a Gateway and the only way to get a power supply is to order it myself. Given the fact that it's 7 years old and I've already replaced the hardrive once already, I suppose it's time to pony up to a new tower.
Recommendations? No gaming, just typical internet browsing and LOTS of music downloading, probably 50 songs a month through my emusic subscription.
The only original part is the Case. In its current configuration - I have an 800 watt , 24 pin p/s, Multi processor AMD,Gigabyte M/B with 6 Gb 1280 memory. Network is running 1 ghz. I did cheap out on the video card, I'm just not "that" into gaming.
Funny thing is, most of my friends laugh when they first see it; Teasing me about the "Antique". "Hot rodding is not just for cars".
This the reason I assemble my own computers, "Branded computers", Dell, Gateway, HP -etc. offer a really good deal for the price, when they are new. They catch up on replacement parts as the years add up. After a while you get locked into the planned obsolesence trap. With a "White box" - generic (high-end parts) - setup, you pay more, but they seem to last longer, besides - they are easy to upgrade or find replacement parts for.... I've been upgrading this puppy since Day One. I get a kick out of the fact it looks the same after all these years. I call it my "Sleeper"
IntelŽ Pentium Conroe Dual Core Processor E5300 (2MB L2 Cache, 2.6GHz, 800FSB)
Genuine Windows VistaŽ Home Premium Edition SP1, 64-Bit
No Monitor
16X DVD+/-RW Drive
3GB1 Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
500GB2 Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
I'm all about Vista BTW. & You won't need to upgrade squat with the above set up. Not even the memory.
I have 3 machine's, 2 run Vista Home premium 64Bit. 1 old XP Home machine that is sitting idle til my garage is built.
My old vista machine (the wife's) is hooked up to our 52" Sharp Aquos LCD. All DVD movies are played thru the PC thru my (her) BluRay Disc player via Windows Media Center inside of Vista. I have a seperate media player for BR installed.
