Computer finally died

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Bennyb

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Well, after about a year and a half, my windows computer has finally kicked it. I'm really not sure what is wrong with it, and am not happy with the prospect of having to spend some money to replace parts.

Problem:

Computer was in storage all summer (climate controlled and what not). When I got it back this fall it was working fine for almost two weeks. Then all of the sudden, it stops working.

Whats not working:

Booting the computer into windows takes literally half an hour. And once I am in windows I can't do anything. Opening my computer took a minute, and eventually froze the computer.

My inital thought was fucked CPU/RAM. Not the case, it seems to be working fine.

THen I thought, messed up harddrive. It could be this, but when I tried to reinstall windows, I was unable to boot the CD up. This was because when the 'press any key to boot from CD' message came up, my keyboard wasn't responding yet... Weird.

Solution:

I can either figure this out myself, or have someone else take a look at it (some sort of service or what not).


Any ideas?
 
Check the inside of the case for spiders and bugs, it's possible it's shorting. It's also possible their idea of climate control isn't what is needed to store computers.
 
By what method did you rule out the RAM? Also, try disconnecting the harddrive and then seeing if you can boot from CD. You obviously won't be able to install but it'll let you rule out the harddrive if you still have the problem. I know booting from CD shouldn't be utilizing the harddrive but faulty hardware can cause weird problems.
 
defakto said:
Check the inside of the case for spiders and bugs, it's possible it's shorting. It's also possible their idea of climate control isn't what is needed to store computers.
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I've seen where it was stored.

I'll try swapping out the ram.
 
the keyboard isnt set to work outside of the bios. go into the bios and set the usb to use the bios not OS. should be something similar to that in there.

the computer will boot the disc if the hard drive has no data on it... meaning use partition magic to format it. it will reboot, and go straight to disc
 
Bennyb said:
I've seen where it was stored.

I'll try swapping out the ram.
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Bugs can get anywhere...I have flies that somehow got past the seal in my freezer...
 
Yes, definitely check bios settings. An interminable boot without any hardware errors reminds me of my friend's roommate in college. I didn't like him, so I disabled his L2 cache one day. He ran a virus scan and it took over 24 hours to complete :D (we restored the bios settings after a few days)
 
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