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Started by Dracos, October 23, 2004, 03:02:08 PM

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Anastasia

#1215
May 05, 2011, 01:45:34 AM
He can get a great old JOB then. Asshole.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Yuthirin

#1216
May 05, 2011, 02:07:58 AM
I'd go to that McDonald's. Every day.
What if they're not stars at all? What if the night sky is full of titanic far-off lidless eyes, staring in all directions across eternity?

Brian

#1217
May 05, 2011, 11:36:08 AM
Quote from: Yuthirin on May 05, 2011, 02:07:58 AM
I'd go to that McDonald's. Every day.
Me too.

Though I'd never eat there.
I handle other fanfic authors Nanoha-style.  Grit those teeth!  C&C incoming!
Prepare to be befriended!

~exploding tag~

Yuthirin

#1218
May 05, 2011, 02:26:53 PM
It's no use, my desktop PC is kerfuckt.

As a related note, does anyone know what it means when, even though the power indicator light on the motherboard is lit up and green, when I press the power button, nothing happens? Motherboard was replaced two days ago, due to me thinking it was the board. It's obviously not. :(
What if they're not stars at all? What if the night sky is full of titanic far-off lidless eyes, staring in all directions across eternity?

Brian

#1219
May 05, 2011, 02:51:52 PM
Power LED on the Motherboard is lit up?  Or the back of the PSU?

Generally in that situation, I would expect a hardware fault.  Specifically, (somehow) your MB may actually be grounding against your case, so enough power to light up that LED goes through (if it is the MB light), but when you try and boot, nothing happens.

Actually.  That may be overthinking things.

First-things-first.  Is your power button correctly connected to your motherboard?  If it became loose, then all the punching on that button won't do a dang thing....

After checking for grounding issues (loose screws pinned between the board and the case, for example) and connections, the next step is to systematically gut your system of everything it does not absolutely NEED to function.  Sound card, video card, if you've got onboard, all but the minimum of RAM, etc.  I am NOT kidding about this -- I had a system that failed POST 50% of the time because of a bad 2.5 inch floppy drive.  Another one because of an older CD-RW.

No, seriously.

Does it boot?  If so, then great (well, not really:) one of the removed devices is bad.  Shut down, re-install devices one-at-a-time until it stops working.  That's your faulty device.  If not, then obviously one of the critical components still in is the faulty one.  If you've got spare RAM sitting around, swap that out.

If at this point it's still no joy, the most likely culprits for the source of your issues are: CPU, RAM, or PSU.

Good luck!
I handle other fanfic authors Nanoha-style.  Grit those teeth!  C&C incoming!
Prepare to be befriended!

~exploding tag~

Yuthirin

#1220
May 05, 2011, 06:05:36 PM
Yes, the power LED on the motherboard.

The motherboard was replaced due to this fault. When I replaced the board, I air-dusted the system and checked for bad posts and whatnot, so I don't believe it's grounding against the case. Otherwise, that scenario is it exactly. I have disconnected all drives, though I haven't tried the RAM idea. I'll give that a shot tonight.

Otherwise, I was afraid you'd say both the PSU and the CPU. Those are the two parts that are just slightly out of warranty, parts I really don't want to replace. :((((((

What if they're not stars at all? What if the night sky is full of titanic far-off lidless eyes, staring in all directions across eternity?

Brian

#1221
May 05, 2011, 06:12:24 PM
Yeah ... hardware manufacturers have a pretty good idea what the MTBF of something is when they offer a warranty.  That's how they get their money.
I handle other fanfic authors Nanoha-style.  Grit those teeth!  C&C incoming!
Prepare to be befriended!

~exploding tag~

Anastasia

#1222
May 05, 2011, 11:27:34 PM
Yeah, condolences man. Rotten luck.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Anastasia

#1223
May 07, 2011, 02:30:21 AM
My stomach and bowels have gone DEFCON 1. Fuuuck.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Yuthirin

#1224
May 07, 2011, 02:31:04 AM
CALL THE PRESIDENT!
What if they're not stars at all? What if the night sky is full of titanic far-off lidless eyes, staring in all directions across eternity?

Ranma_007

#1225
May 10, 2011, 12:16:34 AM
After my eye doctor visit today, I have a partially detached retina, will be seeing the retinal specialist tomorrow, and will probably require eye surgery quickly.

Fuck.

Anastasia

#1226
May 10, 2011, 12:36:28 AM
Eeew, that does blow. Good luck!
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Dracos

#1227
May 10, 2011, 11:48:47 AM
Hundreds of spammer attacks in the last week or so make me quite sad.
Well, Goodbye.

Brian

#1228
May 10, 2011, 12:49:41 PM
Quote from: Ranma_007 on May 10, 2011, 12:16:34 AM
After my eye doctor visit today, I have a partially detached retina, will be seeing the retinal specialist tomorrow, and will probably require eye surgery quickly.

Fuck.
Cripes....  Best of luck, 007.5. :x

If possible, see about maybe getting a cyber-eye from Q...?
I handle other fanfic authors Nanoha-style.  Grit those teeth!  C&C incoming!
Prepare to be befriended!

~exploding tag~

Dracos

#1229
May 11, 2011, 07:00:01 PM
Today (also bled from yesterday) has kinda sucked.  Not only in sort of a negative mood, but things have just not been going my way. 

Electrician I hired fucked around, so instead of being done this thursday, he's targeting middle of next week.  As if I don't have a dozen other guys that need to get work done that I'd prefer to be there and done before I move all my stuff in.  So yeah, that's gonna either be trouble or a few hundred bucks of rent to resolve.  Lovely.

Get in, and find something scheduled for the end of this month is now knocked off schedule because of e3.  Lovely.  Things that depend on it being done now can't be done.  Also lovely.

I'm going to try and have something be a success today and wade out of the pool of failures.
Well, Goodbye.
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