Dead PC
Gaaah! My PC has died! It's toast!
Got home from seeing Ratatouille this afternoon, and my DVD drive had locked up. I had left a DVD burning using Nero, and when I came back to it, Nero had errored, and I could no longer eject the DVD. So I attempted a restart of Windows.
Problem is, Windows didn't restart. It sat there at a black screen after shutting down.
So I powered down the PC, waited a few seconds, and turned it back on again.
All the fans turn on. The LEDs on the power supply and wi-fi card turn on. I'm pretty sure I can even hear the hard drives spin up. But no "beep". The thing just won't boot.
So maybe the motherboard is fried. I'm not sure ... never been much of a hardware guy unfortunately. I'm laptop-bound until I can get a local shop to take a look at it. What a bummer! It's only a little over two years old! I mean ... I have been looking at the price of new PCs ... but not seriously I swear!!!
Comments
# Euan
10/09/2007 8:52 AM
This is the reason why I am considering 200Gb hardware RAID for home.
I would hate to loose everything.
# mabster
10/09/2007 9:03 AM
Yeah, but I don't think I've lost anything. RAID won't protect you from a dead mobo. I'm 99.9% sure that once the machine's running again my data will be intact.
# Euan
10/09/2007 10:38 AM
Yeah I am generally refering to hardware failure. A dead mobo is replaceable.
But when I hear about dead PC's I always think of my data first.
# mabster
10/09/2007 10:48 AM
Worst thing about a dead mobo is that they don't stock the S939 motherboards any more. That means if I wanted to replace it I'd have to replace the motherboard, CPU and RAM (it's old DDR RAM).
So right now I'm keeping an eye on a few eBay auctions of motherboards similar to mine. It'll save me tonnes of cash if a replacement is needed.
I just need the PC to last another twelve months or so - I'll look at getting a new one towards the end of next year.