Computer savvy people? update post 21

[Sirrahsim]

It looked like a dust bunny family reunion inside my tower I cleaned out the case and gave the fans a good scrubbing with a Q-tip. Throughout the time that my comp was working but messing up from time to time I was keeping an eye on the cpu temp and it never went higher than it is supposed to. It turns out that I only have one stick of RAM but it was filthy so I cleaned it off a bit. The wrench in the works is that now that I have plugged the essential things back in to test if it works my monitor won't work! As soon as I turn the computer on it says that it is entering power saving mode.... SO it might have fixed the problem but if it did I don't know it I'm off to fiddle with the connections and make sure that I didn't knock anything lose.

[Sirrahsim]

Monitor works but nothing else does
It's a much cleaner doorstop now though!

[Blue_Frog]

If its not booting now, the only thing i can think of is to take out the cards one by one, and reseat them and hope it loads.

Sounds like a trip to a local computer shop might be in order though, if you suspect its a hardware failure

[Sirrahsim]

I'm so mad at my computer Time to go be a Mom

[Jadapit]

I'm not real computer savvy, but our computer was doing what yours is awhile back. We took it into the shop it was the motherboard. We had to have a new one put in. I love computers but man they can be a pain in the butt at times.

[DJFyrewolf36]

Sure as heck sounds like a motherboard issue to me now...espeically if after you took it apart and it started to die. Do you have integrated video (the video slot is attached to the motherboard, as apposed to an expansion card).

Also, your hardware settings in windows may have gotten corrupted (a common XP problem) Both problems require testing that a computer shop can do, just dont let them rip ya off

[Hellow]

My computer was doing this 2 years ago, i had to replace tha hard drive and one of the memory sticks and re-install windows XP. It has worked fine until i installed Limewire, now it is infested with adware and spyware and viruses that i cant get rid of. Right now im on my laptop too because my computer is a big pile of it. Im mean HUGE pile of it. Oh, yes. And did i mention that one of the viruses is programmed to destroy the physical part of my computer because it melted my computers CPU and memory sticks by overheating. So i guess my computers age has caught up with it. Im going to buy a new computer sometime soon.

[Hellow]

Sorry to hijack this thread but I fixed my computer!!! I believe that my computer was designed to run Windows 2000 / ME but hp just slapped a copy of XP on it to attract customers. So i made a MS - DOS boot disk with my laptop, used tit to re-format my computers hard disk, and since XP came per-installed and i only have a Windows 98 SE disk, i installed 98. It is working on setting up win 98 on my computer and it will be done in a few. I can tell from the speed my computer is running 98 works better than XP on my computer