More PC woes, well, it has been a while..
Posted: 23 Nov 2013
So, yesterday we had one of the usual voltage spikes to the mains, which seems to be a more common problem than it had been for sometime.
The net result of that was a fried set top box for the TV, no problem, I rarely watch it and I hvae spare units.
IT also cooked the base unt for the landline, again, no problem, have a spare.
I turned the PC on and nothing occured. Monitor worked ok, but no signal from the PC. The cooling fan on the PSU kicked in, the HDD spun up, the fan on the main chip kicked in and the HDD light came on, all the time.
But that was it. No lights on the keyboard, no boot, no bios, no nothing.
The netgear wifi router was dead, as was the voyager router.
Have spare voyagers, but no spare netgear unit, so I couldn't even use the laptop.
Anyway, get home from work tonight, took the lid off the PC, had a look, couldn't see anything fried looking, blew all the dust out of it, of which there was much, well, more fag ash than dust but..
Plugged it in and away it went. At this stage the tower was on it's side. As it s now, and it works if I keep it that way, if I sit the tower up as it should be, it all dies on it's fat arse.
Am I missing something obvious here? Or should I just back up the HDD whilst it's working and bin the mainboard?
In which case anyone know where Ican get slightly older boards? I'd like to get an identical board if I can, then I can at least just swap the fucker over without having to beg Vanny to set it all up again!
Are there any checks I can do (bear in mind I know fuck all about electronics) or should I just sack it off andget another?? Ta in advance!
The net result of that was a fried set top box for the TV, no problem, I rarely watch it and I hvae spare units.
IT also cooked the base unt for the landline, again, no problem, have a spare.
I turned the PC on and nothing occured. Monitor worked ok, but no signal from the PC. The cooling fan on the PSU kicked in, the HDD spun up, the fan on the main chip kicked in and the HDD light came on, all the time.
But that was it. No lights on the keyboard, no boot, no bios, no nothing.
The netgear wifi router was dead, as was the voyager router.
Have spare voyagers, but no spare netgear unit, so I couldn't even use the laptop.
Anyway, get home from work tonight, took the lid off the PC, had a look, couldn't see anything fried looking, blew all the dust out of it, of which there was much, well, more fag ash than dust but..
Plugged it in and away it went. At this stage the tower was on it's side. As it s now, and it works if I keep it that way, if I sit the tower up as it should be, it all dies on it's fat arse.
Am I missing something obvious here? Or should I just back up the HDD whilst it's working and bin the mainboard?
In which case anyone know where Ican get slightly older boards? I'd like to get an identical board if I can, then I can at least just swap the fucker over without having to beg Vanny to set it all up again!
Are there any checks I can do (bear in mind I know fuck all about electronics) or should I just sack it off andget another?? Ta in advance!