OS doesn't want to wake up

**iYRe** · 23rd November 2011, 13:09

Originally Posted by sil3nt

Ah right. If i can find my other Windows 7 copy you could have that. Trouble is i have no idea where i put it

i'd have put it in file 13 :P

**neels** · 23rd November 2011, 15:05

If you've got a usb keyboard on some puters the f keys don't work at startup, only once the os starts to load, in which case you'll need to plug in a ps/2 keyboard to access the bios.

If you've lost the hard drive from the bios, or worse it's dead, it may cause it to hang at startup as there's nowhere to look for it's os.

If you've got a bootable cd stick it in the drive and see if it can find that to boot from.

**slofox** · 23rd November 2011, 15:18

Originally Posted by neels

If you've got a usb keyboard on some puters the f keys don't work at startup, only once the os starts to load, in which case you'll need to plug in a ps/2 keyboard to access the bios.

If you've lost the hard drive from the bios, or worse it's dead, it may cause it to hang at startup as there's nowhere to look for it's os.

If you've got a bootable cd stick it in the drive and see if it can find that to boot from.

It's a ps/2 keyboard.

I'll have a fiddle around with it when I get home later tonight. See what transpires. If anything.

Maybe it just needs some "percussive maintenance"...

**ducatilover** · 23rd November 2011, 15:52

My last desktop was doing this sometimes, oddly it turned out to be the CMOS battery.
When it boots up, the list of shit appears on the screen, somewhere in that list you'll see cmos battery and it's status.
I hope your problem is as simple as mine

**slofox** · 24th November 2011, 07:37

Right. So I tested various suggestions last evening and absolutely nothing worked; the machine is totally unresponsive to any input.

Tapping F8 doesn't work. Starting it up with the windows vista disk in the drive made no difference either. Letting it just sit there for half an hour does nothing either. So I begin to suspect something deep down there on the inside somewhere is fucked. Like the HD maybe - it didn't seem to be doing anything at all when I had the side panel off.

I've had to revert to using an ancient, steam-driven spare box that I've had sitting on the floor for ages.

Any further suggestions before I call "the man?"

**iYRe** · 24th November 2011, 08:02

at this point I'd say that there is not much more you can do, if its under warranty it needs to go back to where you got it.

Otherwise I can recommend Dave from need a nerd (waikato - that's where you are, right?) - he's a friend of mine and wont feed you a line of BS.

**slofox** · 24th November 2011, 08:12

Originally Posted by iYRe

at this point I'd say that there is not much more you can do, if its under warranty it needs to go back to where you got it.

Otherwise I can recommend Dave from need a nerd (waikato - that's where you are, right?) - he's a friend of mine and wont feed you a line of BS.

Thanks for that iYRe. I'll see what I can do.

**sil3nt** · 24th November 2011, 09:47

Sounds like a dead mobo/HD.

**slofox** · 24th November 2011, 10:35

Originally Posted by sil3nt

Sounds like a dead mobo/HD.

The HD is ominously silent and vibration free...

**iYRe** · 24th November 2011, 10:36

Originally Posted by sil3nt

Sounds like a dead mobo/HD.

well its getting past POST, so its likely to be a component, like video, network, audio, cpu, ram or HDD :P

Either way, at this point, its beyond tech support over a forum :P

**avgas** · 24th November 2011, 10:48

bugger man. without seeing it I can't offer much more advice.

**slofox** · 24th November 2011, 11:17

Originally Posted by avgas

bugger man. without seeing it I can't offer much more advice.

It's at the diagnostician's today with the instruction "Evaluate only". Find out what's foobahed and go from there.

**Gremlin** · 24th November 2011, 11:32

If it was just the hard drive, then the system should complete post, then say something like "Invalid system disk" blah blah, basically meaning it can't find an OS (which then points to the drive). If it's just the splash screen only it would usually point to the Hard drive, unless the PSU is crapping out.

**slofox** · 28th November 2011, 20:07

Got this machine back from "the man" today...

Turns out the solution was incredibly technical. The dude unplugged one of the RAM modules and plugged it back in. Machine fired up right away after that...

goddambloodyarseholedevicennnnngrgrgrgrgrgrrrrr.

**sil3nt** · 28th November 2011, 20:09

Originally Posted by slofox

Got this machine back from "the man" today...

Turns out the solution was incredibly technical. The dude unplugged one of the RAM modules and plugged it back in. Machine fired up right away after that...

goddambloodyarseholedevicennnnngrgrgrgrgrgrrrrr.

Did they charge you something stupid to do that?

Good its fixed