Power Problem

Discussion in 'Software' started by scorpioq, Oct 30, 2005.

  1. scorpioq

    scorpioq Private E-2

    I was wondering if some one could give me an idea on what is wrong with my computer. It happened after a power lose. The computer its self still comes on and sounds like it is loading, but my monitor just shows blackand goes in stand by mode. and the keyboard and mouse dont get any power(none of the lights come on) My system is windows xp pro. Some one told me it might be my power supply box ( :confused: ) They say it is simple to fix ( :eek: )
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    After a power failure in your home it could be a multitude of things that are wrong and you would have to fault find most of your PC with alternative/spare hardware...

    My first thoughts are that certain parts of your motherboard have blown, hence no USB for key and mouse... one thing to first try is if your happy messing around in the guts of your pc is to re-seat ( take out and put back ) the Graphic Card as the blank screen and that message is one you would get with no signal coming from graphic card to monitor. So if you can borrow a graphic card to test it may help narrow the problem down.

    Try the mouse and keyboard in another PC to check them out.
     
  3. chapincito

    chapincito Specialist

    Since that problem looked so similar to mine, here is what I did. Exactly, trying to fix a computer for my daugther, shut mine off (I had to use the Internet conection) and when I plug mine back... puff!!! No power, power supply died on me!!! Tested with another one and Black screen, just the Xp logo, so thinking that my son's games played something, I started using another one and punish -my son and myself- without our main computer... First I could not access safe mode, after a couple of days I could and did a System Restore, after that runned cc cleaner, ad-Aware, MacAffee cleaner, updated the virus program and scanned, Norton System Works (this squeduled a chkdisk) and defragged with diskeeper, now is up and running, though I need some more RAM... Try something of this.
     
  4. scorpioq

    scorpioq Private E-2

    Being stuborn and hoping the computer fixed its self after a couple days of rest I started it up. What got on the screen was a thing saying "power supply something" and there was a count down thing that started from 5 and went down to one and then my monitor went on standby with a black screen. At the same time my lights came on my mouse and keyboard but as soon as the count down was over the little lights went out.
     

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