Hello all.
I feel like I’m not a true Doper until I’ve gone through a checklist of things. One such thing is asking for help with my computer.
That said, onto my lengthily worded problem:
I have a computer. WinXP Pro SP3.
A few months ago I was happily going about my business when it just died, completely. I would turn it on and it would start, but no lights on my keyboard would come on and my monitor would tell me it’s not detecing any input. With speakers on, the greeting music would not play.
So obviously I check to make sure the monitor is plugged in and all that. It is and my XBOX and TV are being detected. Just not the computer.
So I do a “hard” I think is the term, hard shut off and turn it on again. Same thing.
A few more times of this, I manage to load a screen with a ton of exclamation points. I can provide pics if necessary.
I am never able to reproduce this, it only happens once.
Should also be noted, that sometimes the computer will start up just fine. Then die in less than a minute.
What’s the problem?
I give it to a friend to fix and he says he can’t find any evidence of a virus. Eventually he gets it back to me after going for a completely clean install of Windows, losing all my info and whatnot.
Now, within a fucking hour of getting it back from him, it does it again! It dies. Then, it’ll turn on, so to speak when I tell it to, but the keyboard lights won’t come on and the speaker won’t give me the greeting and the monitor doesn’t detect a damn thing.
Because my friend is a huge flake, he never comes to my aid.
So fast forward a few weeks to today, I just randomly turn it on and works fine. I’m composing this post on it as we speak.
It’s been on for three hours. Most of which was spent running a virus scan with AVG Free. No threats found.
What the hell is going on?
Also, if you need more info, you are likely to have to tell me how to find out the info you need.
