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Oh no!
My pc doesn't work (I don't mean the one I'm using now, genius ;^) )
Last night the pc I'm building was running fine. All the essentials bits, even an OS, were in place and working.
Today I went into an old pc, to raid some bits.
I then went into my new pc, put in the half-inched modem and opened up a drive bay to see if I could get away with a white dvd drive (nope, so I'll be spraying the face plate). Then I pulled out the 2 bits of my 'reworked' power led plug to see if there was an obvious curable reason why it didn't work.
Then I put everything back together, ran it into my tv (via s-video) to try that out, and switched it on.
LEDs came on (the ones that work anyway), fans whirred into life, but no picture.
Then a voice like a woman speaking through a kazoo cam out of the in-case speaker:
"Bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah"
(It could have been, for example, 'the _ _ _ _ is broken' or something. My MB's booklet mentioned something about voice software or something, which might be this.)
Since then I've double checked everything I can, removed the modem, made sure plugs and sockets are secure, hooked the pc up to a proper monitor with the usual leads, unplugged the power led light(!)
Nothing's changed. Still a blank screen and 'bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah'.
Help!
My pc doesn't work (I don't mean the one I'm using now, genius ;^) )
Last night the pc I'm building was running fine. All the essentials bits, even an OS, were in place and working.
Today I went into an old pc, to raid some bits.
I then went into my new pc, put in the half-inched modem and opened up a drive bay to see if I could get away with a white dvd drive (nope, so I'll be spraying the face plate). Then I pulled out the 2 bits of my 'reworked' power led plug to see if there was an obvious curable reason why it didn't work.
Then I put everything back together, ran it into my tv (via s-video) to try that out, and switched it on.
LEDs came on (the ones that work anyway), fans whirred into life, but no picture.
Then a voice like a woman speaking through a kazoo cam out of the in-case speaker:
"Bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah"
(It could have been, for example, 'the _ _ _ _ is broken' or something. My MB's booklet mentioned something about voice software or something, which might be this.)
Since then I've double checked everything I can, removed the modem, made sure plugs and sockets are secure, hooked the pc up to a proper monitor with the usual leads, unplugged the power led light(!)
Nothing's changed. Still a blank screen and 'bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah'.
Help!
She rides again!
ßulle†† wrote:
> I really can't remember how i fixed it though! Thanks mate, I now
> have one of those annoying brain-taxing thoughts that won't go away!
I wibbled the video card a bit, that was it, wasn't it?
Then I put a screw through the hole just below the plate holding its sockets, hoping it might stop it happening again.
Got the tv thing to work too. I don't think it's a good substitute for a real monitor, at least not to work on. It'll probably be good for dvds though.
If only I didn't have a ps2 :^)
ßulle†† wrote:
> I really can't remember how i fixed it though! Thanks mate, I now
> have one of those annoying brain-taxing thoughts that won't go away!
I wibbled the video card a bit, that was it, wasn't it?
Then I put a screw through the hole just below the plate holding its sockets, hoping it might stop it happening again.
Got the tv thing to work too. I don't think it's a good substitute for a real monitor, at least not to work on. It'll probably be good for dvds though.
If only I didn't have a ps2 :^)
You may want to strip everything out until you are just left with the motherboard and start from scratch.
I think it told me to burn th...oh wait.
No, I couldn't make out what the voice in the computer said, I even tried putting my head up close to the case but that didn't work either.
I really can't remember how i fixed it though! Thanks mate, I now have one of those annoying brain-taxing thoughts that won't go away!
No, I couldn't make out what the voice in the computer said, I even tried putting my head up close to the case but that didn't work either.
I really can't remember how i fixed it though! Thanks mate, I now have one of those annoying brain-taxing thoughts that won't go away!
Heh, well the computer's still broken.
It worked last night, I'd not tried it between then and opening it this morning.
Any idea what the voice said to you?
It was God, wasn't it?
:^)
It worked last night, I'd not tried it between then and opening it this morning.
Any idea what the voice said to you?
It was God, wasn't it?
:^)
So you've tried it on a normal monitor? Did it work befoe you opened it to put the modem in?
Um, check to make sure the graphics card has not come out at all.
To run a display through S-Video out, you usually need to enable said option from the graphics settings within Windows. Did you do this (obviously while using the original monitor :D )?
I heard that voice a couple of PC's ago, shame I can't remember what I did to fix it. That probably wasn't helpful though.
Then again, I probably haven't been much help at all :D
Um, check to make sure the graphics card has not come out at all.
To run a display through S-Video out, you usually need to enable said option from the graphics settings within Windows. Did you do this (obviously while using the original monitor :D )?
I heard that voice a couple of PC's ago, shame I can't remember what I did to fix it. That probably wasn't helpful though.
Then again, I probably haven't been much help at all :D
Oh no!
My pc doesn't work (I don't mean the one I'm using now, genius ;^) )
Last night the pc I'm building was running fine. All the essentials bits, even an OS, were in place and working.
Today I went into an old pc, to raid some bits.
I then went into my new pc, put in the half-inched modem and opened up a drive bay to see if I could get away with a white dvd drive (nope, so I'll be spraying the face plate). Then I pulled out the 2 bits of my 'reworked' power led plug to see if there was an obvious curable reason why it didn't work.
Then I put everything back together, ran it into my tv (via s-video) to try that out, and switched it on.
LEDs came on (the ones that work anyway), fans whirred into life, but no picture.
Then a voice like a woman speaking through a kazoo cam out of the in-case speaker:
"Bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah"
(It could have been, for example, 'the _ _ _ _ is broken' or something. My MB's booklet mentioned something about voice software or something, which might be this.)
Since then I've double checked everything I can, removed the modem, made sure plugs and sockets are secure, hooked the pc up to a proper monitor with the usual leads, unplugged the power led light(!)
Nothing's changed. Still a blank screen and 'bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah'.
Help!
My pc doesn't work (I don't mean the one I'm using now, genius ;^) )
Last night the pc I'm building was running fine. All the essentials bits, even an OS, were in place and working.
Today I went into an old pc, to raid some bits.
I then went into my new pc, put in the half-inched modem and opened up a drive bay to see if I could get away with a white dvd drive (nope, so I'll be spraying the face plate). Then I pulled out the 2 bits of my 'reworked' power led plug to see if there was an obvious curable reason why it didn't work.
Then I put everything back together, ran it into my tv (via s-video) to try that out, and switched it on.
LEDs came on (the ones that work anyway), fans whirred into life, but no picture.
Then a voice like a woman speaking through a kazoo cam out of the in-case speaker:
"Bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah"
(It could have been, for example, 'the _ _ _ _ is broken' or something. My MB's booklet mentioned something about voice software or something, which might be this.)
Since then I've double checked everything I can, removed the modem, made sure plugs and sockets are secure, hooked the pc up to a proper monitor with the usual leads, unplugged the power led light(!)
Nothing's changed. Still a blank screen and 'bah bah-bah-bah-bah bah bah-bah'.
Help!