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Well, I'm bouncing back from my depression, which is a good thing. Not all sunshine and roses, as my computer is really not working at all, and I'm stuck using the comp at my local library.
But that should change soon, as my friend is sending me a machine and hopefully, I'll be back up and running.
Hugs to all.
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If it helps, what almost
If it helps, what almost certainly failed in your computer was the power supply - which is also one of the easiest things to replace. It has a lot of cables, but they're basically impossible to plug into the wrong places - every plug is a different shape.
You can get a generic/junk power supply for under $20 (CA or US), which will give you about a year, maybe two, of running. A better power supply will generally be about $50-60, unless you get a REALLY good one, which will run you $100-120. Avoid Antec like the plague. It's not really any better than Diablotek - but they charge like it.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I don't thinks so
From what she described to me when I called to see if I could get it working again, it seems like a motherboard issue, not a power supply issue. And either way it's irrelevant, her old computer had lots of problems besides this one and there's a new computer that should be arriving tomorrow according to ups.
I shipped most of a computer
I shipped most of a computer to Florida for another author, so I know that feeling.
There are lots of things that it could be, yes. Now, if it helps, the hard drive is almost certainly intact. When the power supply and motherboard blow, they almost never hit the hard drive, oddly enough. Even the old Bestec power supplies in some HP's and E-Machines (which kill the MB when they go), don't kill the hard drive.
I get to look at an E-machine in the next few days that actually blew the power supply, the computer, _and_ the circuit breaker.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
it... blew... the... circuit... breaker?
Are you for serious? Oh wow....
That one takes some doing. The engineers who designed and built that PSU HAD to KNOW what that freaker was going to do... wow. PSU's have had protections that oughta prevent that sort of thing since the IBM PC was first introduced.
Abigail Drew.
It was this one run of Bestec
It was this one run of Bestec power supplies - all the same wattage/size/etc, and used just in the older rounded e-machines, plus about six (that I know of) different HP tower machines.
Once it started, people just got in the habit of just replacing the bestec power supplies when they went across them. If you had a -GOOD- in-line UPS, (AVR), they didn't tend to blow.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.