Solve : Major Problems?

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Answer» Hi found this site by accident but i hope that someone here can answer my probelm for me. My computer is quite an old model, from Time yes the ones that no longer exist, i had it "UPGRADED" or so the guy said a few months ago all he did was put a 256mb ram n a geforce 5 into it! However all was goin smoothly up until recently when it started to i believe overheat if left alone for too long the monitor would turn off and an alarm inside the machine would go off? any ideas? Well thts not all of it, tht was just an annoyance, the main problem is that it started that it would only run in safe mode, then the monitor screwed up and had different color blocks on it (Not dead PIXELS just big blocks of different shades) this persisted for about a week then the other day i tried to turn it on and it doesn't load anything. i've checked the monitor n all n thts fine i think it may be the hardware but i dn't have a clue! any help would be much appreciated, especially if its a solution i can perform my self. Thnks in advance for any replies. DODODodo... ok ...So you added some ram and a new vid card ....... Shut down the machine ....and take the cover off .....have a look inside and see if theres a lot of dust in there and in particular on the fan thats mounted on the CPU heatsink and at the same time look at the new vid card and see if there is a fan installed on it . If there is a buildup of dust , go out and buy a can of spray air or dust off ...... and clean out all the dust . Once the dust is out , with the cover still off ..... start up the machine and see if the fan on the PCU is running as well as the fan on the vid card , if it has one . Is there another fan mounted on the inside of the case , other than the one in the PSU ? Do you have any sort of temperature monitoring software installed ? If not I would try pc WIZARD 2006 ..... http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,25444,00.asp It will let you see what the temperatures are in your machine ......... it will give you lots of other info about your machine as well . Let us know what the temperatures are . dl65 Quote the monitor would turn off and an alarm inside the machine would go off? ---definatly sounds like a overheating issue. Quote then the other day i tried to turn it on and it doesn't load anything ---sounds like u let it overheat a little too much, somethin probably fried heres some questions... 1. does it start at ALL? (motherboard beeps, lights turn on, loads BIOS, etc.) 1a. if it does tell us how far it loads to. 2. can u see or hear the fans running? 3. are all of them running? 4. does it smell burnt? (seriously)Cheers for the suggestions guys i only jst had a chance to check bak for replies tonite but i'll have a go at sum of ur suggestions at me next chance and get back to you with the results. thanks hope that its one of the above suggestions.Riteo guys i checked the following Dust (Cleaned) Fans (Spin Correctly) All things are connected [/list] No i've tryed to run it yet again, and at first it display the following "Windows Failed to start properly & lots of other stuff that wasn't realy relavent" waited bout 30 seconds it started the XP loading screen came up ok all proper colours then it got to my login screen, which had all the colours pretty much screwed up! On closer inspection of my monitor i discovered a "Y" shaped burn mark on the back slightly to the left. After removing te back cover i discovered what appears to be STRANDS of melted plastic and a lot of dust. I believe this to be the cause of the incorrect color display and am going to test on a friends monitor. But any ideas about wht the "Windows Failed To Start Properly" is all about? Thanks for the previous help hope i can solve this problem as well. "Windows Failed To Start Properly".....thats what happens when you start up windows and the power goes off while windows is loadingAhhh i c so if i turn it off from the power button rather than the shutdown option on windows then that will come up at the start! that sound about right? Woot should have a new monitor to try in about an hour so i shall reply with the resultswhat i said was that it would show that when the spashscreen saying Windows Xp or something similar and you turn it off then it happens. if you press the button it just sets the shitdown procedure going.Well cheers for the help guys i got it all up and running again and have pin pointed the causes of my problems - Overheating (Due to Dust) - Wrong Color Display (Graphics Card Driver had been removed on a failed SystemRestore) (So the display was stuck on 4 bit color display) Just working on upgrading it to some modern hardware, ie the hard drive (which currently is only 20gb) One last question. I think my PC is currently using a IDE harddrive does this mean i can only upgrade it with another IDE harddrive? It depends on what the motherboard supports. As you describe it as an "old" one, I am sure IDE connectors are allthat is on the motherboard. You can get an ADD in card to use SATA, but frankly I wouldn't bother with that if it were mine.

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Hi found this site by accident but i hope that someone here can answer my probelm for me.

My computer is quite an old model, from Time yes the ones that no longer exist, i had it "UPGRADED" or so the guy said a few months ago all he did was put a 256mb ram n a geforce 5 into it! However all was goin smoothly up until recently when it started to i believe overheat if left alone for too long the monitor would turn off and an alarm inside the machine would go off? any ideas?

Well thts not all of it, tht was just an annoyance, the main problem is that it started that it would only run in safe mode, then the monitor screwed up and had different color blocks on it (Not dead PIXELS just big blocks of different shades) this persisted for about a week then the other day i tried to turn it on and it doesn't load anything. i've checked the monitor n all n thts fine i think it may be the hardware but i dn't have a clue! any help would be much appreciated, especially if its a solution i can perform my self.

Thnks in advance for any replies.

DODODodo... ok ...So you added some ram and a new vid card ....... Shut down the machine ....and take the cover off .....have a look inside and see if theres a lot of dust in there and in particular on the fan thats mounted on the CPU heatsink and at the same time look at the new vid card and see if there is a fan installed on it . If there is a buildup of dust , go out and buy a can of spray air or dust off ...... and clean out all the dust . Once the dust is out , with the cover still off ..... start up the machine and see if the fan on the PCU is running as well as the fan on the vid card , if it has one . Is there another fan mounted on the inside of the case , other than the one in the PSU ?
Do you have any sort of temperature monitoring software installed ? If not I would try pc WIZARD 2006 ..... http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,25444,00.asp
It will let you see what the temperatures are in your machine ......... it will give you lots of other info about your machine as well .
Let us know what the temperatures are .

dl65

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the monitor would turn off and an alarm inside the machine would go off?

---definatly sounds like a overheating issue.

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then the other day i tried to turn it on and it doesn't load anything

---sounds like u let it overheat a little too much, somethin probably fried

heres some questions...

1. does it start at ALL? (motherboard beeps, lights turn on, loads BIOS, etc.)
1a. if it does tell us how far it loads to.
2. can u see or hear the fans running?
3. are all of them running?
4. does it smell burnt? (seriously)Cheers for the suggestions guys i only jst had a chance to check bak for replies tonite but i'll have a go at sum of ur suggestions at me next chance and get back to you with the results.

thanks hope that its one of the above suggestions.Riteo guys i checked the following

Dust (Cleaned)

Fans (Spin Correctly)
All things are connected
[/list]

No i've tryed to run it yet again, and at first it display the following "Windows Failed to start properly & lots of other stuff that wasn't realy relavent" waited bout 30 seconds it started the XP loading screen came up ok all proper colours then it got to my login screen, which had all the colours pretty much screwed up!

On closer inspection of my monitor i discovered a "Y" shaped burn mark on the back slightly to the left. After removing te back cover i discovered what appears to be STRANDS of melted plastic and a lot of dust. I believe this to be the cause of the incorrect color display and am going to test on a friends monitor.

But any ideas about wht the "Windows Failed To Start Properly" is all about?

Thanks for the previous help hope i can solve this problem as well.
"Windows Failed To Start Properly".....thats what happens when you start up windows and the power goes off while windows is loadingAhhh i c so if i turn it off from the power button rather than the shutdown option on windows then that will come up at the start! that sound about right?

Woot should have a new monitor to try in about an hour so i shall reply with the resultswhat i said was that it would show that when the spashscreen saying Windows Xp or something similar and you turn it off then it happens. if you press the button it just sets the shitdown procedure going.Well cheers for the help guys i got it all up and running again and have pin pointed the causes of my problems

- Overheating (Due to Dust)
- Wrong Color Display (Graphics Card Driver had been removed on a failed SystemRestore) (So the display was stuck on 4 bit color display)

Just working on upgrading it to some modern hardware, ie the hard drive (which currently is only 20gb) One last question.

I think my PC is currently using a IDE harddrive does this mean i can only upgrade it with another IDE harddrive?

It depends on what the motherboard supports. As you describe it as an "old" one, I am sure IDE connectors are allthat is on the motherboard. You can get an ADD in card to use SATA, but frankly I wouldn't bother with that if it were mine.

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