Solve : Please help GPU red light and Windows CRASH!?

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Answer» Oh No! This cant be... NOT AGAIN!!! It seems my GPU has damaged itself like my last one and I'm unable to boot into windows to do ANYTHING! Please help, I dont know whats wrong, and I really want to continue my videos and such on my computer. So if anybody could help me, that'd be great. Because pretty much my computer is telling me: "Umm, yeah, your messed man." Also, when I start it up it has a red light on the top of the graphic card for a brief second when I start it up, and then it goes off. When I boot up into Windows (NT 5.1, 'Windows XP'), I get a boot delay, a screen saying: Windows is loading files. Then I get a screen saying something along these lines: Quote Windows had a (problem?) communicating with a device on your computer. This could be caused by (Hard drive, CD ROM?) [...] Press ENTER to continue (or ESC to go Back?) I press enter and it just restarts. Before any of this happened, I was on the inside of the computer, (NOT inside of it ) But I was de-dusting it and wiping some of it off of the fans, and then I used a spray can (I think an airsol cleaner of some sort) to blow out my GPU fan. I also sprayed inside some of the VENTS on the side of the GPU. (What the heck, it has a case and has vents on the side of the cover for the GPU? ) And it probably had something to do with spraying it and damaging something internally. My Graphics Card is an ATi Radeon 4800 HD series. I DONT KNOW WHAT SERIES IT REALLY IS!! It just SAYS its an ATi Radeon 4800, on the bottom of it, suposedly its true number, it just says : " ATi Radeon -------------- Premium Graphics ". So I don't know what to say. --Either that, or, it had something to do with harshly touching the PRI MASTER, SLAVE, (something else) cord for my CD Rom that passed through some large gray cord with many cordlines (or whatever it is, sperate small cords). I have some pics, I'll post them soon when I hook up the Camera. Please help, I dont want to have to take this PC in again, or to replace my Graphic card. I have felt like throwing my PC out the window, since I am so frustrated yet stressed of the condition my computer is in right now. Please help, a thousand hugs to the one who is able to assist me in my computer problems. Thanks. I really love my computer, it has all my music, videos, PICTURES, games, and files on it. It would be a true shame if I had to let all that go. It has been a day, and yet no replies. Interesting. Now I'm not dejected or anything, just complementing on how strange it is and how it just makes me ponder upon seeing that a day has passed, and yet nobody has thought of a satisfying solution to this. I can't speak for anyone else, but I started reading your post yesterday and had to move on. Too much nonsense for me. I prefer just the facts, not the rest. No offense intended, just telling why I didn't respond. But okay - I tried to read it just now and honestly don't understand it. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, I suggest you post the problem in SIMPLE terms.What does the manuf. (ATI) say about the "red light" on the card ? ? Exactly what type of "spray" did you use inside the machine ? ? (what does it say on the can ? ) Have you reseated all your drive cables to the HDD's and CD drives ? ? Did you have any NT boot issues prior to this ? ? Quote from: patio on April 27, 2010, 03:36:30 PM What does the manuf. (ATI) say about the "red light" on the card ? ? Exactly what type of "spray" did you use inside the machine ? ? (what does it say on the can ? ) Have you reseated all your drive cables to the HDD's and CD drives ? ? Did you have any NT boot issues prior to this ? ? Sorry for the long time to reply, I've been busy lately. One of my family members is experienced with Computers, when he repaired it while I was gone, he said (or my mom said that); " There was some kind of anti-spyware carp on there... he cleaned it off. " And I asked him if there were any other problems, say, hardware issues, but he didn't say. Must've been the dog blowing his sweaty breath in my computer overnight during the storms that scared the dog, he probably got something all sweaty or wet in their by accident, and over the day it dried off, thats one of my guesses. And I think my dad has the manual as well, because technically its his computer, but we share, its a like a computer house here. Quote from: deargodpleasehelp on May 04, 2010, 07:37:43 AM Sorry for the long time to reply, I've been busy lately. One of my family members is experienced with Computers, when he repaired it while I was gone, he said (or my mom said that); " There was some kind of anti-spyware carp on there... he cleaned it off. " And I asked him if there were any other problems, say, hardware issues, but he didn't say. Must've been the dog blowing his sweaty breath in my computer overnight during the storms that scared the dog, he probably got something all sweaty or wet in their by accident, and over the day it dried off, thats one of my guesses. And I think my dad has the manual as well, because technically its his computer, but we share, its a like a computer house here. I'm pretty sure he also re-seated and probably replaced the CD Rom cables/whatever those huge "bungie" sized cords are. Im not quite sure though, but I just wanted to verify on that. If anybody else has seen this "Windows had a problem communicating with a device on your computer" error/message, please tell me. If it was a virus the whole time, I mean wow. Seriously, such executables/viruses can interfere with the boot of Windows? And these errors/the message occured BEFORE I got the list of Operating systems to boot from. I mean the INTEL boot agent thing came on the screen first, (like always), and after that I got a bottom loading screen saying: "Windows is loading files...". A minute later I'd say, It came up with the error message about a problem communicating with a device. I swear that if a device is faulty, Windows would either skip it or attempt to load it anyways, but I'm still kind of unsure about it. :-//

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Oh No!
This cant be...

NOT AGAIN!!!

It seems my GPU has damaged itself like my last one and I'm unable to boot into windows to do ANYTHING!

Please help, I dont know whats wrong, and I really want to continue my videos and such on my computer.

So if anybody could help me, that'd be great.
Because pretty much my computer is telling me: "Umm, yeah, your messed man."

Also, when I start it up it has a red light on the top of the graphic card for a brief second when I start it up, and then it goes off.

When I boot up into Windows (NT 5.1, 'Windows XP'),
I get a boot delay, a screen saying: Windows is loading files.
Then I get a screen saying something along these lines:

Quote

Windows had a (problem?) communicating with a device on your computer.

This could be caused by (Hard drive, CD ROM?)

[...]

Press ENTER to continue (or ESC to go Back?)

I press enter and it just restarts.

Before any of this happened, I was on the inside of the computer, (NOT inside of it ) But I was de-dusting it and wiping some of it off of the fans, and then I used a spray can (I think an airsol cleaner of some sort) to blow out my GPU fan.
I also sprayed inside some of the VENTS on the side of the GPU.
(What the heck, it has a case and has vents on the side of the cover for the GPU? )

And it probably had something to do with spraying it and damaging something internally.

My Graphics Card is an ATi Radeon 4800 HD series.
I DONT KNOW WHAT SERIES IT REALLY IS!!
It just SAYS its an ATi Radeon 4800, on the bottom of it, suposedly its true number, it just says : " ATi Radeon
--------------
Premium Graphics ".
So I don't know what to say.

--Either that, or, it had something to do with harshly touching the PRI MASTER, SLAVE, (something else) cord for my CD Rom that passed through some large gray cord with many cordlines (or whatever it is, sperate small cords).

I have some pics, I'll post them soon when I hook up the Camera.

Please help, I dont want to have to take this PC in again, or to replace my Graphic card.

I have felt like throwing my PC out the window, since I am so frustrated yet stressed of the condition my computer is in right now.

Please help, a thousand hugs to the one who is able to assist me in my computer problems.

Thanks.
I really love my computer, it has all my music, videos, PICTURES, games, and files on it. It would be a true shame if I had to let all that go. It has been a day, and yet no replies.
Interesting. Now I'm not dejected or anything, just complementing on how strange it is and how it just makes me ponder upon seeing that a day has passed, and yet nobody has thought of a satisfying solution to this.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I started reading your post yesterday and had to move on. Too much nonsense for me. I prefer just the facts, not the rest. No offense intended, just telling why I didn't respond.

But okay - I tried to read it just now and honestly don't understand it. Maybe it's just me. Anyway, I suggest you post the problem in SIMPLE terms.What does the manuf. (ATI) say about the "red light" on the card ? ?

Exactly what type of "spray" did you use inside the machine ? ?
(what does it say on the can ? )

Have you reseated all your drive cables to the HDD's and CD drives ? ?

Did you have any NT boot issues prior to this ? ? Quote from: patio on April 27, 2010, 03:36:30 PM

What does the manuf. (ATI) say about the "red light" on the card ? ?

Exactly what type of "spray" did you use inside the machine ? ?
(what does it say on the can ? )

Have you reseated all your drive cables to the HDD's and CD drives ? ?

Did you have any NT boot issues prior to this ? ?

Sorry for the long time to reply, I've been busy lately.
One of my family members is experienced with Computers, when he repaired it while I was gone, he said (or my mom said that); " There was some kind of anti-spyware carp on there... he cleaned it off. "
And I asked him if there were any other problems, say, hardware issues, but he didn't say.

Must've been the dog blowing his sweaty breath in my computer overnight during the storms that scared the dog, he probably got something all sweaty or wet in their by accident, and over the day it dried off, thats one of my guesses.

And I think my dad has the manual as well, because technically its his computer, but we share, its a like a computer house here. Quote from: deargodpleasehelp on May 04, 2010, 07:37:43 AM

Sorry for the long time to reply, I've been busy lately.
One of my family members is experienced with Computers, when he repaired it while I was gone, he said (or my mom said that); " There was some kind of anti-spyware carp on there... he cleaned it off. "
And I asked him if there were any other problems, say, hardware issues, but he didn't say.

Must've been the dog blowing his sweaty breath in my computer overnight during the storms that scared the dog, he probably got something all sweaty or wet in their by accident, and over the day it dried off, thats one of my guesses.

And I think my dad has the manual as well, because technically its his computer, but we share, its a like a computer house here.

I'm pretty sure he also re-seated and probably replaced the CD Rom cables/whatever those huge "bungie" sized cords are. Im not quite sure though, but I just wanted to verify on that.

If anybody else has seen this "Windows had a problem communicating with a device on your computer" error/message, please tell me.

If it was a virus the whole time, I mean wow. Seriously, such executables/viruses can interfere with the boot of Windows?

And these errors/the message occured BEFORE I got the list of Operating systems to boot from.
I mean the INTEL boot agent thing came on the screen first, (like always), and after that I got a bottom loading screen saying: "Windows is loading files...". A minute later I'd say, It came up with the error message about a problem communicating with a device. I swear that if a device is faulty, Windows would either skip it or attempt to load it anyways, but I'm still kind of unsure about it. :-//

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