11th October 2010, 11:24 PM
Gah, I'd had this problem a few weeks ago, but then it went away so I was hoping that it wouldn't come back... but now it's back, and it's as horribly, incredibly frustrating as ever.
Essentially, my new computer won't turn on sometimes. Oh, it powers on, all the fans and lights and such power up, the CD works if I press the button... but it doesn't get beyond that and boot, and the monitor stays in 'standby' mode, the yellow light, blinking, whatever (depending on monitor).
I think there's some kind of power or electric problem, that hopefully isn't so bad it can't be fixed, because sometimes a few weeks ago when it was last doing this I managed to get it working by plugging in and unplugging some speakers from the sound card, or plugging the speakers into other ports on the sound card. Also, the one time (then) that I tried running the system without the sound card in I think it booted. Or sometimes it just randomly starts this time, while the previous time it wouldn't. It makes no sense.
So, is it a power problem or something, or is my sound card (a Soundblaster X-Fi) going bad? The latter would be pretty annoying, the only other soundcards I've got are definitely inferior Soundblaster Live!s. :(
In case you're wondering I'm posting this from my older computer, which works as well as it has for many years now, but is frustrating because of its age and because of how often it crashes. I need my newer computer working more reliably.
I mean, the computer does turn on some of the time. This problem does not happen every time, obviously, as I've said such as how it went away for a few weeks, but now happened again). But I really need to figure out what is wrong here, just saying "oh well it'll fix itself/it's not too bad as long as I can eventually get it to start up somehow" isn't the best attitude, I think. :)
Essentially, my new computer won't turn on sometimes. Oh, it powers on, all the fans and lights and such power up, the CD works if I press the button... but it doesn't get beyond that and boot, and the monitor stays in 'standby' mode, the yellow light, blinking, whatever (depending on monitor).
I think there's some kind of power or electric problem, that hopefully isn't so bad it can't be fixed, because sometimes a few weeks ago when it was last doing this I managed to get it working by plugging in and unplugging some speakers from the sound card, or plugging the speakers into other ports on the sound card. Also, the one time (then) that I tried running the system without the sound card in I think it booted. Or sometimes it just randomly starts this time, while the previous time it wouldn't. It makes no sense.
So, is it a power problem or something, or is my sound card (a Soundblaster X-Fi) going bad? The latter would be pretty annoying, the only other soundcards I've got are definitely inferior Soundblaster Live!s. :(
In case you're wondering I'm posting this from my older computer, which works as well as it has for many years now, but is frustrating because of its age and because of how often it crashes. I need my newer computer working more reliably.
I mean, the computer does turn on some of the time. This problem does not happen every time, obviously, as I've said such as how it went away for a few weeks, but now happened again). But I really need to figure out what is wrong here, just saying "oh well it'll fix itself/it's not too bad as long as I can eventually get it to start up somehow" isn't the best attitude, I think. :)
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