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A friend of mine recently bought a new computer workstation/desk which is made entirely of metal, and has plastic wheels which in turn is standing on a carpet. After a few days of using it he started having problems when trying to bootup. He says that sometimes when he turns the pc on, it would work fine for a period of time and then it would just lockup. It could be as little as a few seconds into the initial POST screen and it would lockup. Other times he would be able to use his PC for a few hours and then find it locking up.
Regardless of how long it took for his PC to lockup he said that he wouldn't be able to use the Reset button to reset and had to resort to flicking the switch on the back of his PSU before he could power up again.
A few days after that he found out that both his harddrive and his CD drive stopped working. He bought them round to my house to verify it and they're definitely dead. So he had to buy a new HD and CDdrive and reinstall everything again.
All was well for a while and then I found out the other day that his PC fails to even boot now. The PSU fan comes on but nothing else. He doesn't even get any beeps through his tiny case speaker. The new HD doesn't power up anymore and the new CD drive is also broke. Once again, he had them checked on my PC and sure enough his new hd and cd drives are dead.
So we took every thing out of his pc and just left in the following devices/cards:
Mobo
Chip
1 stick of memory
Floppy drive
Video card
Keyboard
Monitor
On a normal working system, the setup I just described would still work albeit it would only reach the part just after the POST screen and then request the user for a boot disk. However, my friend's PC still refused to boot even when setup like that and his not too happy about it
He has a desktop case and has since noticed that part of underside of the case, and also part of the top as well, actually makes contact with the metal workstation/desk. He's thinking that his PC has become damaged possibly through some kind of power surge or maybe even static whenever he used to hit the power button on his PC. He reckons that some kind of current would have traveled through the bottom of his case, round the metal workstation and then back into the PC which ultimately lead to other parts of his PC frying.
Is such a thing feasible or is he just going stir-crazy cos he just blew his computer?
~Tangy
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A friend of mine recently bought a new computer workstation/desk which is made entirely of metal, and has plastic wheels which in turn is standing on a carpet. After a few days of using it he started having problems when trying to bootup. He says that sometimes when he turns the pc on, it would work fine for a period of time and then it would just lockup. It could be as little as a few seconds into the initial POST screen and it would lockup. Other times he would be able to use his PC for a few hours and then find it locking up.
Regardless of how long it took for his PC to lockup he said that he wouldn't be able to use the Reset button to reset and had to resort to flicking the switch on the back of his PSU before he could power up again.
A few days after that he found out that both his harddrive and his CD drive stopped working. He bought them round to my house to verify it and they're definitely dead. So he had to buy a new HD and CDdrive and reinstall everything again.
All was well for a while and then I found out the other day that his PC fails to even boot now. The PSU fan comes on but nothing else. He doesn't even get any beeps through his tiny case speaker. The new HD doesn't power up anymore and the new CD drive is also broke. Once again, he had them checked on my PC and sure enough his new hd and cd drives are dead.
So we took every thing out of his pc and just left in the following devices/cards:
Mobo
Chip
1 stick of memory
Floppy drive
Video card
Keyboard
Monitor
On a normal working system, the setup I just described would still work albeit it would only reach the part just after the POST screen and then request the user for a boot disk. However, my friend's PC still refused to boot even when setup like that and his not too happy about it
He has a desktop case and has since noticed that part of underside of the case, and also part of the top as well, actually makes contact with the metal workstation/desk. He's thinking that his PC has become damaged possibly through some kind of power surge or maybe even static whenever he used to hit the power button on his PC. He reckons that some kind of current would have traveled through the bottom of his case, round the metal workstation and then back into the PC which ultimately lead to other parts of his PC frying.
Is such a thing feasible or is he just going stir-crazy cos he just blew his computer?
~Tangy
.?~^v^~? mulder8968's x-files site ?~^v^~?.
. forum . blog . bloopers . winamp . fanfic
?~^v http://www.mulder8968.f2s.com v^~?
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