Strange PC behaviour...

**Fragony** · 11-13-2008, 18:47

Had the same, try a new graphic card worked for me.

**Marius Dynamite** · 11-13-2008, 19:04

I had a similar but slightly different problem once. My computer kept switching off as though the power cable was being pulled out. Monitor, Printer, CPU. Every now and again it just went.

As it turned out what was happening was I was pushing the desk back onto the multi-socket adaptor which has a switch on it which cuts the power when flicked. I don't think that helps you though.

I dont know much about this stuff, but if your video card blew then I think your computer would use its very basic card and would still switch on in safety mode. Could it be the Power Supply? I had to get a new one when I got a new Video card because the power rating on my old one was too low.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_power_supply

I think they are pretty cheap so it could be worth buying one and seeing if it works.

**Ramses II CP** · 11-13-2008, 22:50

Okay, step one, pretty much every tower ever made has a light that comes on when you push the power button. Does yours still come on? What color is it now (And what color is it normally, green is typical)?

Oh, while we're still at stage one make sure it's not just the monitor. Will the monitor's onboard settings menu come up? When you boot the machine up does it beep, start the fans and HDs, and/or make the Windows startup noise? If you give it enough time to complete a normal boot cycle and then press the Windows key and 's' will it shut down?

**Aemilius Paulus** · 11-13-2008, 23:22

Funny, I had the exact same thing happen to me just two hours ago, while I was playing Barbarian Invasion (which I know to be unstable, much unlike RTW). The screen would refuse to turn on but the computer itself, the tower was working as if nothing happen. What I did was simply turn off the power supply and then turn it back on, along with the computer. This is what Windows Error Reporting said:

You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused Windows to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer.

The solution to this is installing/updating a new device driver.

**TevashSzat** · 11-14-2008, 04:04

If above suggestions don't work, your motherboard may be broken, which unless you're fairly competent with computers, is a pain to replace by yourself.

This happened to me once before maybe 2/3 years ago. I would press the power button and saw a green light, but nothing occurred and I could just only hear the fan (I think). Later, I got a friend to check it out for me and yepp, the motherboard was dead. Luckily it was an old one for me since I just got my HD out and bought a new desktop.

**rajpoot** · 11-14-2008, 04:30

The light does not come on, there are no beeps, and the monitor is fine, so basically, I'm sure we can narrow down the problem to the tower.
I'll be go to check for a new PSU today. Hopefully that'll be it, because if the graphics card or the motherboard are broken or anything.....well it'll be tough two months for me then.
By the way, I've been working with the this setup since over two months now, that was when I upgraded my graphic card, and it's been working fine.....and one more thing when anything inside the cabinate, like the graphic card, blows off, then it has to make some sound or something....? I mean not even a pop? I would have heard it.....