HELP! computer problem EDIT: COMPUTER PROBLEM RETURNS!

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Pete Pachota

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All right, so yesterday I was on the computer and it shut down without any reason. Then it couldn't start, after a while of messing with it it could run for like 20 seconds with no output on the monitor, then it stopped. Im on a crappy old computer with Win 98 and it takes ages to load a damn page. What could happen? We have already figured out that it has nothing to do with the power supply, our guess is the hard drive or the motherboard. What sucks is that it broke down in the evening of the day on which the warranty expired, lol. Can anyone help?
 
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Brian Boston

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Stick the hard drive in another computer. If it works, you might need a new mother board. If it does the same thing, hard drive is going or it has a virus, i would put it in a computer as slave and back up data and format it than install windows again.
 
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Pete Pachota

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Ive tried to put the drive in this computer, but it was hanging up while being detected. This might be a result of this computer being old, cause Ive also tried doing it the other way, and the broken computer couldn't start with the drive from this one.

If it's the motherboard what would cause the failure? Bad quality?
 
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Brian Boston

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Ugh i don't really know. Computers are wild. You might want to have someone look at it unless someone else can help more here.
 
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AX3D

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Ooh, when you say "I'm on a crappy old computer" it sounds like thats what you have, and thats what broke...

Anyway, sounds like your in a really weird situation here Pete... I'd just get someone to look at it...
Right now I'd say your hard drive is the problem...
 
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Pete Pachota

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OHHH SHIT!

Ive had the new motherboard installed (for free, as the warranty was longer then we thought), like 2 or 3 weeks ago and it was running fine UNTIL NOW! THE SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED! Am I just unlucky, either because of random hardware breakdowns or having shitty motherboards installed in my computer, or is there something wrong with the power supply? Maybe there are some voltage jumps or other things that have to do with electric power that tend to damage my motherboard all the time? Ehh...
 
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Madis

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Well i can only tell, if it's possible or totally unbelieveble, but The Sims Vacation has managed to fuck up 2 or 3 harddrives and i don't know how. I haven't got any problems with Sims Livin' Large back then.
 
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Brian Boston

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Haha i used to have Sims problems on my old ass computer.

Pete Pachota said:
Maybe there are some voltage jumps or other things that have to do with electric power that tend to damage my motherboard all the time? Ehh...
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Is your computer connected to a surge protector or directly into the outlet in your wall? If theres voltage jumps the surge protector should prevent it from damaging the computer...
 
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Eric Magray

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there could be errors on your hard drive thats making it do that, you could reformat your hard drive and see if that fixes it. but reformatting clears the entire drive so if you do make sure to back it up and make sure you still have the OS disc to reinstall the OS.

have you put new memory or any new hardware in before that happened? because if you have and the BIOS settings werent reset to work with the new hardware that could also be an issue.

if all else fails CLEAN IT!!! if the inside has a pound of dust, or any at all clean it. dust traps heat and heat is bad.
 
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AX3D

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Pete thats increadably fucking gay haha.

Bri is right, get a surge protector if you haven't already :)

But Eric is probably right there.
 
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farmboy uk

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ive always found james' method best lol

i know shit all about computers

ask dibble i trust him because he has a bigger hard drive than the whole of egypt
 
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Brian Boston

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eric magray said:
there could be errors on your hard drive thats making it do that, you could reformat your hard drive and see if that fixes it. but reformatting clears the entire drive so if you do make sure to back it up and make sure you still have the OS disc to reinstall the OS.

have you put new memory or any new hardware in before that happened? because if you have and the BIOS settings werent reset to work with the new hardware that could also be an issue.

if all else fails CLEAN IT!!! if the inside has a pound of dust, or any at all clean it. dust traps heat and heat is bad.
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I dunno about the harddrive stuff... i don't see how that would effect the motherboard. Is your computer well ventilated? Maybe its getting too hot and killing motherboards.
 
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