Take a look at the air intakes see if you can feel anything when you turn it on. Only problem with overheating is the more you turn it on, the more damage it can do.
Hardcore Biker
Take a look at the air intakes see if you can feel anything when you turn it on. Only problem with overheating is the more you turn it on, the more damage it can do.
Forum whore
okay luv....pull the 50cent peice out of the disk drive....and take the condom off the joystick and it should work fine again...Originally Posted by Cibby Chick
I require the assistance of a learned IT person in the auckland area!!
Last night my laptop died.. it lost power. completely..
turned it back on again, it started up, just really slowly.. and then...
wait for it...
it died.. AGAIN!
No more KB at night time for me...
Any ideas????? Help???
ANYONE?????
Thanks
Cibby..
p.s beer / food / money or ride on race bike available for payment... ok well maybe not a ride on the race bike.. well maybe.. depends.
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What brand of laptop is it? if its a Toshiba i could pull some strings for replacement parts etc etc (im a registered tosh techy).... (pm me if you need them)
Sounds like a blowen power/mainboard to me though....
i doubt its overheating (might be though - depends on the construction of that model/brand), weve left laptops running stress tests (maxing out everything in it) over long weekends and came back on tuesdays and they're fine (just have to let em cool before stripping em down again lol).
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What brand of laptop is it? if its a Tosh i could pull some strings for replacement parts etc etc (im a registered tosh techy
Sounds like a blowen power/mainboard to me though....
i doubt its overheating (might be though - depends on the construction of that model/brand), weve left laptops running stress tests (maxing out everything in it) over long weekends and came back on tuesdays and they're fine (just have to wait before stripping em down again lol).
ohh.. are you just
its an Acer.. so i dont think you can help me..... but thank you anyways!
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Need new round thangs!
yea.... pity im in welly otherwise i'd be round in a flash to sit on the race bi... oh er i mean "look" at the race bike and "fix" the laptop
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Forum whore
Starting up slowly - either overheating so CPU is thermal throttling to save itself, OR hard drive is dead. Could be faulty solder joins on the mainboard (dry breaks) too... a few things it would be but those are my picks.
Wires on your power supply not kinked/frayed? They can cause shorts and screw stuff up on the mainboard as the resistance changes - blowing small mainboard fuses is common... sigh. Seen it all.
Forum whore
From the symptoms it sounds like your Windows install is borked. Batter the F1 (or it could be F2, escape or F10) key to get in to the bios. Tell it nicely (be undre boot order or summit) to boot from a CD first.
Find a bootable copy of memtest 86 to check the memory (doubtful). Or better still, Knoppix 4 and then you won't have to worry about buggering up Windoze.
Everyone should have a backup knoppix disk in case of emergencies.
Forum whore
Hmm...funny how all us techies come up with different answers.
Forum whore
Sweeeeeeettt....What brand of laptop is it? if its a Toshiba i could pull some strings for replacement parts etc etc (im a registered tosh techy
Sounds like a blowen power/mainboard to me though....
i doubt its overheating (might be though - depends on the construction of that model/brand), weve left laptops running stress tests (maxing out everything in it) over long weekends and came back on tuesdays and they're fine (just have to let em cool before stripping em down again lol).
Ok, I've got a Toshiba Satellite Pro 2450 or something... I want a docking station for it so I can wander about the house and not have to worry about unplugging all the cables etc...
I've not seen one around, can you find one of these and give me a rough price?
I'd be very grateful.
Hardcore Biker
There's tonnes of things it could be, would have to have a play around with it to figure it out, cause average joe ain't going to be able to give you the clues you need through the forums.
My first thought when you said that it did run sometimes, and for differing amounts of time and the slow load up sounded a lot like overheating, check that the fans are running, like they used to. Also could be a failure in the connection between the CPU and the Heatsink... Has it been dropped recently?
Seriously though, the only way to find out what's faulty is trial and error... Try swapping the easy things first like the RAM (could be the fault) or the HDD (unlikely in my opinion, but entirely possible). But the fault could also be in the motherboard or CPU, quite expensive. Best of luck.
As someone said... beeps mean hardware failure. Everytime I've seen a machine make beeping noises, it was either something wasn't plugged in properly like a loose ram stick, or there was a hardware failure.
Forum whore
Has anyone mentioned virus?
Forum whore
COuld also be corrupted sectors or bad sectors or fucked file system, BUT it should atleast still turn on from what I can tell by waht she said it didn't always turn on, so should be hardware... physical.. hdd or cpu.. ram is usually not that intermittant but can't rule it out, had some satanically weird sticks before., edit mobo blah blah it's best if one of us comes around and looks at it some time, i'm not free till after 7 most days with gym and shit
Forum whore
My advice to you cibby is to pay somebody who knows what they are doing.
Muhammad AliOnly a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Hardcore Biker
If you take it into the computer shop you're most likely going to get it handed to someone payed only slightly more than your average McDonalds worker to be charged $60 an hour for a second rate job. I'd say better help could be gained from here for free, considering how many people on KB work in IT.
Forum whore
Yeah, what he said... oh so sadly true. I need another job :|
I'll shout you cibby (I can't shout hardware if that is the case cus it needs to be purchased.. some one on here can help with that, but I'll atleast come and diagnose and repair software for free if that's the case), just you and Postie need to feed me well.. I'm a growing lad! :P
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