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I cant even get to the bios screen. my graphics card sounds like its stuck somewhere..
I hear "long fan noise, short high fan noise, long fan loise" like "zooooooooooom ZOOM zooooooooom ZOOOM"
The problem started an year ago. My pc would randomly shut down while playing tf2. The shutdowns were random. Sometimes no problems for weeks or a month, and sometimes once every day. It used to take me 5-6 attempts to get past the bios screen. Last month I removed the gfx card and plugged it back in, and my pc worked fine for two weeks, but then again started giving me random shut downs. Now it wont even start.
any ideas on what the problem could be.
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It was overheating and you killed it.
/sarcasm
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Identify which fan is acting crazy by watching it when you turn it on, but be careful not to stick your hands inside while its turned on or you may get electrocuted. Also try unplugging everything on the inside and plugging it back in. If you have any experience with the insides of a computer, take out your graphics card, ram, hard drive and cpu cooler, then plug them all back in while inspecting for any signs of heat or other damage. I suspect either a CPU, GPU, or Power Supply failure.
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Don't bother helping him that card is fried. Use evga precision next time. Also dieing power supplies don't sound like fans set to high speeds. At this point i'm sure his heatsink resembles a burnt lego stuck in a heater.
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Sounds to me that the "Power Good" signal from the power supply to the mainboard either isn't acted on, or that it never comes.
I would reseat the power connector on the mainboard, and check wattage of the power supply vs the components.
It also can be that a fan doesn't spin up, and its been required for the motherboard to let it boot up. In such case, open the case and check if all fans spin up properly at turning it on.
Questions therefore are:
- did you buy the computer as prebuild (as in branded, like HP, Dell, etc)?
- Which power supply you have in your computer?
- Which CPU/processor?
- Which Graphic card?
- any other components worth noting?
check on the above components their wattage usage (goes up a bit during the lifecycle), and the wattage of the power supply. Say it is 550 watt, then assume its no more than 420 watt for the calculation. Power supplies at start deliver bout 80% performance or sometimes a little more, but this goes down over age. I have seen PSU's drop to 70%.
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Thanks for suggestions .. I will try them out
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took out the gfx card and ... blew into the fan twice .. and reinserted . . my pc works now ..
yay
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Get evga precision before you completely ruin your card.
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Do you dust your computer? You should do that like... once a month.
Get a compressed air bottle from some place. They generally sell at 7$ for 2 bottles and the bottles last a while.
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just vacuum your computer
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