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Dead computer, press power button no activity...

dcdomain

dcdomain

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First my laptop dies (going to RMA the drive tomorrow):
I have a Portege3020ct and recently installed a new IBM 20gb drive two weeks ago. Last night I shut it down and today, when I booted it up, after the BIOS screen (Powered by Toshiba) it was stuck on the black screen for longer than usual. WAAAAY longer than usual, but the harddrive light was still on although I couldn't hear a thing when I put my ear to the harddrive. So, I rebooted the computer, and that's when I got the above message. So my question is... what now? Is the harddrive dead? Or is the controller dead? This was really sudden, never had any minor problems leading up to this. I don't even have my floppy drive on me to see if I can boot into DOS to see if I can access the harddrive that way. Now when I start the laptop, the harddrive light never comes on.
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Now after getting home after 20 or so days, my computer is dead:
I booted up the computer fine, but after several unsuccessful attempts at signing online, I restarted the computer, then once more and at that time while signing online the computer just restarted by itself. I figured, no big deal, probably overheated and rebooted. Problem is after the BIOS screen, the screen just goes black, there's still a signal since my monitor still has a green over the orange standby light, but there's no activity on the screen. And right from bootup there is constant activity on the harddrive. Nothing I never ran into before.

Problem now is, this is new, I push the power button, I hear my scanner powering up and boom, computer just dies. I figure, okay maybe I blew the powersupply somehow because nothing happens when I press the power button. But looking at the mobo, the green light is still on. Any ideas? I'm really hoping it's just the power supply. I was going to upgrade it anyway. But since the mobo light is on, I'm guessing the powersupply is still working?

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
 
Holy cow... I took out the power plug for most of the night, connected it this morning on a whim and it booted up!!!
 
Praise Jesus that your 'puter is working now!!!! I was having a similar problem, turns out the ATX power connector wasn't in all the way, my computer is working great now🙂 Praise Jesus!!!
 
Something else is wrong now, the computer just reboots randomly. Dead mobo coming about? Or maybe the power supply is conking out? Any ideas? Please let it be the PSU... need a new one anyway, and the mobo was just replaced a couple of months ago...

[edit]: maybe it's a bad stick of ram?
 
Problem went away for a week or so, today I turned off the AC and opened up the windows and all this crap started happening again. What the heck is going on!?!
 
This strange behaviour recently happened to a computer that I just fixed... turned out to be a dead/dying CPU.
 
Is there a program that can check if the CPU is dying? I've heard of one for ram sticks, but nothing else...
 
Check to make sure your motherboard is not shorting out against your case. I had very similiar syptoms on my parents computer until one day the power supply just popped, let out a puff of smoke and died. Of course the computer in that case was randomly starting itself up along with the sypmtoms you listed... :Q
 
Hmmm, if it were to be in contact, shouldn't it have been shorting out a while ago, like right after I built it? I haven't really touched anything and what are the chances of a screw being thrown in there making the contact?
 
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