so my computer broke (aka Marks i need your help please)

[Plug Drugs]

TL;DR: so if you're wondering why i haven't been posting (not that any of you care about me) its because my computer broke and I don't know what's wrong with it. Right now I'm thinking its the processor, but my first guess was the motherboard.

So about a week ago I accidentally bumped the case with my knee, and hardware started making unidentifiable noises. I started getting blue-screens and random crashes, and sometimes BIOS wont even post and my monitor doesn't even light up. I usually get a crash/blue-screen after 10-15 minutes, and it takes me about 1-5 tries to get my computer to even log in.

Windows 7 repair (during start-up) didn't find any problems that it could fix, so I don't know what's up.

About 2 weeks ago my friend helped me clean off my processor and heat sink, and I'm thinking right now maybe he didn't apply the thermal paste right or something and my processor keeps overheating

I know it isn't anything in windows because sometimes BIOS wont even post.

The only other thing I think it could be is a heat-warped motherboard or something

[skrizach]

Well my first thought was immediately your hard drive, since you mentioned it started happening after a physical bump, and that's the part of the computer that's most susceptible to movement.

[Plug Drugs]

Well my first thought was immediately your hard drive, since you mentioned it started happening after a physical bump, and that's the part of the computer that's most susceptible to movement.

but then why would it fail to post BIOS?

[Plug Drugs]

i'm posting on the tainted computer right now; a crash is imminent. I just hope it isn't in the middle of writing a really long post or something - that would be tragic

did you try blowing in it?

[skrizach]

Yeah that's why it was only my first thought.
It's possible that some connection came loose because of the bump.
One thing you could try is to turn it off and re-seat literally every removable part ie: gfx card, hdd, processor, memory and any other peripherals you might have.

[blumpkin blownuts]

my buddy's vid card fan popped off while spinning and made all kinds of great sounds ricocheting around in the box

[maks]

first thought is turn it off, open it up, reseat everything. everything. everything.

"it bluescreened" is not enough information. copy down the code that looks like 0x0000000000000b3 on the bluescreen and google it, windows is telling you exactly what device failed and you are not listening.

if you're worried about overheating check and see if your bios logs thermal events, if it doesn't then grab one of those temperature monitoring softwares for windows and leave it open for a while and see how hot it gets.

[maks]

if it's a consumer device it might have built in hardware diagnostics, dells in particular do. a windows repair isn't going to detect or fix any hardware problems and in fact you probably broke some other shit by doing that so be ready for additional problems down the road

[skrizach]

first thought is turn it off, open it up, reseat everything. everything. everything.

"it bluescreened" is not enough information. copy down the code that looks like 0x0000000000000b3 on the bluescreen and google it, windows is telling you exactly what device failed and you are not listening.

if you're worried about overheating check and see if your bios logs thermal events, if it doesn't then grab one of those temperature monitoring softwares for windows and leave it open for a while and see how hot it gets.

see bro I told u dog

[sex with dead people]

Call the best buy geek squad they are so badass and can fix it all

why call a geek when you can call a friend

resize your user picture, its pissing me off

Just delete it

[Desolation]

marks for computer repair
clay for car help

This forum is pretty nice when you look at it that way.

Deso for forum dj

Post some tunes bro the tides out could really use some chillwaves

[juji]

http://idoseraudio.com/index.php?mai...index&cPath=35

[Desolation]

Post some tunes bro the tides out could really use some chillwaves

can't tell if you're being serious but if you really want to hear some chillwave: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...eature=mh_lolz

[maks]

marks for computer repair
clay for car help

This forum is pretty nice when you look at it that way.

suck I didn't realize clay knew about cars

hey clay anything special I need to do the brake pads on a 2005 golf? I'd like to know before I take the tires off

[maks]

also please stop +repping garfield tia

clay when are we going out to eat

[skrizach]

marks for computer repair
clay for car help

This forum is pretty nice when you look at it that way.

Hey I'm a pretty helpful bro too.

[skrizach]

Plug Drugs how is it going is it working?

[juji]

tech support

[boobz]

i missed you plug

[skrizach]

i missed you plug

Qft

[Plug Drugs]

i got it working and i dont really know what i did.
I unplugged everything and plugged it back in, and i also disconnected the second monitor i had plugged in.
The adapter for the second monitor to plug in to my video card had like 2/3 of the prongs missing, so maybe it was making my whole comp crash? Idk..

All i know is its working right now, and i'm scared to even touch my tower right now for fear that it will blue screen

[Plug Drugs]

"it bluescreened" is not enough information. copy down the code that looks like 0x0000000000000b3 on the bluescreen and google it, windows is telling you exactly what device failed and you are not listening.

The problem was that every time it bluescreened, i had about 1.5 seconds to look at the code before it "dumped to memory" (whatever that means) and my comp started rebooting.

if you're worried about overheating check and see if your bios logs thermal events, if it doesn't then grab one of those temperature monitoring softwares for windows and leave it open for a while and see how hot it gets.

i couldnt even get in to BIOS, i dont have a PSB keyboard right now and my USB driver is gay and only starts working AFTER windows loads i guess

[Plug Drugs]

its funny, every time my computer breaks down for a while, i get this newfound appreciation for it as soon as it starts working again. I feel like scrooge on christmas day or something