A $10 battery dammit!
Just a little note that might help someone else: Yesterday I came down to my comp and was trying to open a file a friend sent me for some brochures he had made but I couldn’t open the file in Corel 8.
Just a little note that might help someone else:
Yesterday I came down to my comp and was trying to open a file a friend sent me for some brochures he had made but I couldn’t open the file in Corel 8. I called him and he suggested that I check if there were any updates from Corel that I had missed. I checked the site found the latest update and proceeded to install the service pack. As the screen came up stating “ Windows needs to restart” I clicked yes and the shut down started.
Now the fun started after you would have expected the system to start up again NOTHING BUT BLACKSCREEN! Thought I had a hard lock. After about 2 min. I reset the system. Again nothing ; couldn’t even get to the bios. There was no beeps all the fans were running and I thought that I had hashed my bios somehow.
A friend suggested that the power supply may have gone down during the shut down process and that I try to install a new one. Even though all the power seemed to be on and all fans in the power supply and all card fans were running we thought that there may have been an under power situation. So I did that and again nothing.
I decided to shut the system down and piece by piece remove components. As I was down to just one stick of ram , that I had swapped to all available slots , and a video card still nothing. All power seemed ok but I still couldn’t get even a beep. So I tried to discharge the cmos. Still nothing. This is now about three hours later and after cleaning all the areas of the case, all components I thought that my cmos was toast and was contemplating a nice $500.00 upgrade for a motherboard and cpu. Not what I had expected when I started that morning.
I was just about to go to the store and pick up the new components when I thought
“Lets try a $10.00 new battery “ . Well I got the battery popped it in and to my amazement the system sprang to life. Slowly I got to the starting windows bar then to the desktop .
I added each new component , went through the start and shut down each time until I was back to normal. At 4.5 hrs from start to finish I had solved the problem .
The reason that I write this is so that if this was to happen to anyone else I suggest that you try the $10.00 battery first.
Yesterday I came down to my comp and was trying to open a file a friend sent me for some brochures he had made but I couldn’t open the file in Corel 8. I called him and he suggested that I check if there were any updates from Corel that I had missed. I checked the site found the latest update and proceeded to install the service pack. As the screen came up stating “ Windows needs to restart” I clicked yes and the shut down started.
Now the fun started after you would have expected the system to start up again NOTHING BUT BLACKSCREEN! Thought I had a hard lock. After about 2 min. I reset the system. Again nothing ; couldn’t even get to the bios. There was no beeps all the fans were running and I thought that I had hashed my bios somehow.
A friend suggested that the power supply may have gone down during the shut down process and that I try to install a new one. Even though all the power seemed to be on and all fans in the power supply and all card fans were running we thought that there may have been an under power situation. So I did that and again nothing.
I decided to shut the system down and piece by piece remove components. As I was down to just one stick of ram , that I had swapped to all available slots , and a video card still nothing. All power seemed ok but I still couldn’t get even a beep. So I tried to discharge the cmos. Still nothing. This is now about three hours later and after cleaning all the areas of the case, all components I thought that my cmos was toast and was contemplating a nice $500.00 upgrade for a motherboard and cpu. Not what I had expected when I started that morning.
I was just about to go to the store and pick up the new components when I thought
“Lets try a $10.00 new battery “ . Well I got the battery popped it in and to my amazement the system sprang to life. Slowly I got to the starting windows bar then to the desktop .
I added each new component , went through the start and shut down each time until I was back to normal. At 4.5 hrs from start to finish I had solved the problem .
The reason that I write this is so that if this was to happen to anyone else I suggest that you try the $10.00 battery first.
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